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Release Date
16 August 2019
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Length
8 tracks
Wistful and effortless, The Rescue is perhaps the lightest addition to Explosions in the Sky's catalogue, recorded as part of Temporary Residence Limited's 'Travels in Constance' series. The band set themselves the challenge of recording an EP in just two weeks - one day devoted to writing and recording each of the eight tracks, the rest of the time for mixing, all of which was completed by the band. Free of constraints and yet with a tight schedule to maintain, the record has a kind of schematic, airy quality - clearly not as heavily worked over as their other work - and turns out quite beautiful and versalite, showcasing the band's pop and ambient tendencies as much as their well-known penchant for soundtracking the world's end.
We promised Jeremy we would do a Travels in Constants e.p. literally over four years ago. Since then we've been sidetracked by an astonishing number of things. Two thousand and five was our year to take a bit of a step back and take some time to write new music, and along the way somewhere we got an idea for doing this e.p. in a different way then we've ever approached writing music. It can take us months and months and months to write even a song. Sometimes it comes much quicker, but often we spend many an afternoon trying out new melodies and riffs and drum beats, playing things over and over, obsessing and arguing and sighing and sitting silently for what seems to be hours on end. So, for this, our idea was to write and record a song every day for two weeks (this later became eight days) and the rest of the two weeks would be spent trying to mix and master the results. No riffs were to be written beforehand; things would be pretty much made up on the spot. It seemed daunting but fun and, perhaps, instructive. A learning experience. A chance to try new instruments and new ways of thinking about writing songs. Its also our first attempt at recording ourselves (the whole thing was recorded in Michael's house). Anyway, The Rescue is the result.
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