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I think I've decided that the first album is the best that these guys have done. For a long time, I awarded that honor to All of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone, but How Strange, Innocence has just been hitting the spot for me lately. It's pretty much perfectly sequenced and the songs are well put together without indulging some of the overly sweet sappiness of their later works.
It's definitely an interesting left turn for these guys. I'm happy to hear how well it turned out. I was pretty sure they didn't have it in them to do something different; I'm glad I was wrong.
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I've been listening to The Wilderness a lot lately.
Beautiful album. It mixes "electronic" touches with the chimey EitS sound, but also pushes them pretty far from their comfort zone. The crazy middle section of Logic of a Dream and the end of Colors in Space are amazing.
The Ecstatics and Disintegration Anxiety are also great.
Seems like every post-rock band does a math rock album and EitS did it pretty fucking well.
So the band is 20 years old this year, and they're doing a decent amount of touring to celebrate that. Supposedly they have announced "Part 1" of the dates, so there's probably more to be coming.
05/09 – Shanghai, CN @ Bandai Namco Dream Hall 05/10 – Beijing, CN @ Tango 3F 05/12 – Tokyo, JP @ O-East 05/13 – Osaka, JP @ Club Quattro 09/11 – Mesa, AZ @ Mesa Arts Center 09/12 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium 09/13 – Santa Ana, CA @ Yost Theater 09/14 – Point Reyes, CA @ Love Field 09/16 – Oakland, CA @ Fox Theater 09/17 – Sacramento, CA @ Crest Theater 09/19 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot 09/20 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre 09/21 – Boulder, CO @ Boulder Theater 09/22 – Taos, NM @ Taos Mesa Brewing Amphitheater 10/10 – Knoxville, TN @ The Mill & Mine 10/11 – Raleigh, NC @ The Ritz 10/12 – Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom 10/13 – New York, NY @ Knockdown Center 10/14 – Buffalo, NY @ Asbury Hall 10/16 – Detroit, MI @ Masonic Temple Cathedral 10/17 – Bloomington, IL @ Castle Theatre 10/18 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee 10/19 – St Paul, MN @ The Palace Theater 10/20 – Maquoketa, IA @ Codfish Hollow Barnstormers 10/22 – Lincoln, NE @ The Bourbon Theatre 10/23 – Lawrence, KS @ Liberty Hall 10/24 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Criterion Theater
I'm eyeing that Buffalo date. I saw them in 2008, and it would be good to do so again, especially with more material available.
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