Explosions In The Sky - End

Released 15th September 2023

End, the enigmatic seventh album by Explosions in the Sky, was inspired by darkness, but became a loud, dramatic, wild rumination on life and death.

Our starting point was the concept of an endingdeath, or the end of a friendship or relationship. Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that weve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe its our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretationthe end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next, says the band about the album.

End is perhaps the grandest Explosions in the Sky album melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and tele