EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place DLP Goth With its raucous honky-tonk piano

With its raucous honky-tonk piano laid down by Hans Chew and walls of layered saxophone

with a smattering of nail-file prepared electric guitar to ensure we never forget that for all its old school trappings

this album retains the unsettling feel of the best atmospheric ’60s loner psych better than any of the above

Their relative isolation is mirrored in the distance between Ruin's muscular

a double-length album of seriously DEEP songs and powerful ENERGY jams

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY - The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place DLP Goth With its raucous honky-tonk pianoThis album makes me cry in a good way. Picking up where Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever left off, The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place begins as a flickering twinkle that soon grows to a blinding light. This new sense of hope is the defining characteristic of this record, and ultimately the journey that their music takes us on. Immeasurably more dramatic and dynamic than their last album, The Earth Is Not