This Will Destroy You, Mountains, Amen Dunes
Wed. 02/01 | 9:00PM @ Lincoln Hall (map)
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- Hauntingly dark and blindingly luminous instrumental rock that scales sonic summits and valleys. THIS WILL DESTROY YOU are an instrumental quartet from the great state of Texas who play a cascading brand of cinematic rock music. Often compared and linked to purveyors of the "post-rock" sub-genre, the band has managed to transcend the tag and carve its own niche via a delicate and balancing infusion of electronics, strings, and an array of unconventional "rock" instrumentation over bombastic & receding harmonies. "Tunnel Blanket" is the third proper full length from THIS WILL DESTROY YOU. It is the product of over two years of having the abyss stare back at the creator and, in turn, the creators lashing back at it with everything they've got. While previous albums managed to strike a universal chord of human hope and near-optimism toward the future, "Tunnel Blanket" is the darker and more intricate sides of human emotion, grief, and tragedy. It's "pretty" in the way decomposition is pretty. It's "artful" in the precise way that a sniper's bullet passes through the largest artery is artful. There is still beauty in the latest from THIS WILL DESTROY YOU. In fact, this could easily be described as the most beautiful album the band has ever made. Yet it's an entirely unconventional beauty that taps far below the soil that most bands dig their safe heels upon. In essence, "Tunnel Blanket" is humanity itself during its most beaten down and darkened times. It is the sonic equivalent of being buried alive and needing to scratch and claw back to the air above for mere survival. And at the end, it's just as cathartic, instinctively primal, and wholly rewarding.
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Chicago Reader on This Will Destroy You, Mountains, Amen Dunes @ Lincoln Hall
3 months agoI doubt Damon McMahon ever worries about coming off as too cryptic. more at chicagoreader.com
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flavorpill on This Will Destroy You, Mountains, Amen Dunes @ Lincoln Hall
3 months agoChicago-birthed, Brooklyn-based duo Mountains traffic in all manner of "spacey" circles on their second proper album for Thrill Jockey, but they've called it Air Museum (no Space wing here). more at flavorpill.com
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Oh My Rockness on This Will Destroy You, Mountains, Amen Dunes @ Lincoln Hall
4 months agoSan Marco, Texas band This Will Destroy You play big dramatic instrumental "post-rock" that sounds very similar to their state-mates, Explosions in the Sky. more at ohmyrockness.com
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