Just started listening to a new band called God Is An Astronaut. For anyone waiting for a great band to go next to their Explosions In The Sky discography on the shelf, this is your band. You can listen to selected songs from a couple of their albums on their MySpace page, if you’re willing to subject yourself to the trappings of MySpace, you desperate individual you.
As always, this band is close but not quite in the same field as the Explosions. God Is An Astronaut is more of a rock band than the Explosions are, but that is a good thing to me right now. While their songs can be slow building, each one is filled with tension and release. I know musical tension can drive some people nuts, but it really connects with me. On top of that, the release is also in my personal style; it does not come in a violin oveture or driving hook, but in huge guitar riffs and banging piano marches. Put another way, when the time is right it kicks ass.
I don’t know what the name God Is An Astronaut is about, but the music is right on. On a scale of three to nine, I give it an eight!