Open Up Your Ears v.4: Instrumental Rock

Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
So it took me weeks to get up the nerve to write about an instrumental band, especially this one, because I thought they were so far from the mainstream; them not being on the radio and not using lyrics and all. But when Relevant Magazine does a piece on them, when Jason Lee(My Name is Earl, Almost Famous, Clerks) has their album cover as a poster over his office desk, and when they are THE soundtrack for Friday Night Lights that tells me they might have finally reached the mainstream.
-There sound is just so captivating despite not being hook laden, top 40 junk.
There newest recording The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place is a collection of well toned guitars and crashing drums all coming together in huge but fragile crescendos.
Forget all the "post-rock" nay-sayers, because this is not "post-rock"- and oh by the way what the hell is "post-rock" any way; some contrivance Rolling Stone uses when they can't explain a bands sound, when a band doesn't sound like Three Doors Down or NickelBack.
Forget all of that, this album is great, it is serene and it is loud, it is melodic with out a melody, it is for that rainy day while you sit on the couch, that sunny Sunday drive, etc. etc. God I love this album.