Explosions in the Sky -How Strange Innocence LP #35/300
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This item is a rare, hand numbered debut album by the Post Rock band Explosions in the Sky. The album, "How Strange, Innocence", originally was only released on limited CD, and then re-issued in this LP format, limited to just 300 copies. This version is hand numbered 35 out of 300. The mark itself reads "/35/300 FTK-01". The item comes in its original plastic wrap.
First of all, I must apologise that the picture I have used for this item is not the same as the LP I have here. Instead of it being red, the colour of the version I own is grey. I do not have a digital camera and so cannot upload pictures, and I have been unable to find a picture of the grey version of the LP, just goes to show how rare it is! This was purchased during the band's recent tour of the UK, inparticular the show at the Nottingham Rescue Rooms. I have been forced to sell this due to financial difficulties, otherwise I would not be selling this item!
The following is an excerpt from the band's website (http://www.explosionsinthesky.com) describing the album.
" "How Strange, Innocence" was our first attempt at an album. We recorded it in January 2000 in Austin. Recording took two days, mixing one day, mastering one day. Altogether we pressed 300 CD-R copies of the album.
We had been a band for about seven months when we recorded thses songs. A lot of feelings (excitement/confusion/glimpses of visions/waking dreams/inability to play instruments) went into this record, but we didn't quite know what to do with these feelings (not that we exactly know how, nor do we wish to imply that we have any idea how to play our instruments). None of us had ever been in a studio before, and it shows in the recording. The songs show it, too - it's a young record. There are no tricks in it. There's a lightness in a few of the songs that we probably won't reach again. It sounds strange to say that instruments songs are "about" something, but to us these songs were about such things as a couple walking through the park on a winter day, a child playing on 70's shag carpet, the story of a boy hero leading a revolution against the tyranny of the coal mines.
We've had a bit of a love/embarrassment relationship with this record... At certain points along the way several of us wanted to buy back all the copies and burn them. Listening now to this album, it almost seems like a different band composed of four different people. We finally feel okay in re-releasing it, probably because we've now made a couple of records that are recorded better and that are closer to our visions/hopes for them.
We truly appreciate anyone who is interested and listening. Thank you."
Tracklisting
1. A Song for our Fathers
2. Snow and Lights
3. Magic Hours
4. Look into the Air
5. Glittering Blackness
6. Time Stops
7. Remember me as a Time of Day
I thank you once again for looking at this item, and may I wish you happy bidding!
