God Is An Astronaut

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Total Tracks: 10   Total Length: 60:52

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Great music to get lost in

circle of crows

This is music built from emotion, without letting language interfere.GIAA accomplish what few can do: making instrumental music that speaks to you.

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Great emotional instrumental rock

GTMLIBRA

Once again, e-Music have yet another great band on their books and if you like Jakob and Caspian then you will love this band! Try Track 07 - zodiac and if you like it, download the rest of the album. Great stuff. My only comment is the production is a bit on the thin side.

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Walking On The Moon!

stavrosthehamster

I believe these boys are Irish. If i am correct that makes me very proud. Excellent stuff. Track 3 "Echoes" could sell this album alone and "Zodiac" features some very impressive drumming on a par with one of my fave drummers Stewart Copeland (reminds me of the power of his drumming on "Syncronicity I"). Only criticism is the titles are a bit naff sounding but the tracks sound huge! More power to them! - Budge aka...

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ernie-c

explosions in the sky and tristeza to hear their overt influences. still, well done.

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Turn off lights. Put on headphones. Float away.

fnordcircle

In the 4 years I've been an on again off again subscriber here at eMusic I think no band has been as delightful a find for me as God is an Astronaut. Their songs have consistently provided a soundtrack for my life and some of the most beautiful moments I've experienced in the last year have coincided with Fragile or Forever Lost or Beyond the Dying Light from their previous efforts playing in the background. Moreso than their most recent effort this album seems particularly focused. I'm no musical genius, my approach to music is much more emotional and their songs, more than any band that I can think of, are alive with emotion yet somehow it is conveyed with a vastness that a thousand word review fails to capture. If you are into beauty. If you are into sadness. If your imagination thrives when given a rich tapestry then this is the album and the band for you. I'm rarely thankful for efforts from performers-most of them are looking for a big break but I'm thankful for this.

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If you think Maserati’s Inventions for the New Season was polished, you ain’t heard nothing yet. God Is an Astronaut are pigeonholed as a post-rock band, and they fit the bill — no vocals, a mostly guitar-based sound, and melodies that float and shift (no proggy shredding here). But this is still a far cry from the trembling ebbs and flows of Explosions in the Sky, to say nothing of Sigur Rós’ “Hopelandish” ballads. God Is an Astronaut are an extremely tight unit — tighter than any other bunch of post-rockers, their precision emphasized by their penchant for synthesizers, which has subsided a bit since their debut but never disappeared, their sound actually reminds you a little of an electronica band performing on guitars. Then there’s the fact that God Is an Astronaut don’t care much for quiet/loud dynamics that are supposedly at the heart of post-rock — they can do that, but most of the time they just create an endless and constantly changing melody flow, much like techno bands do. The result brings to mind earlier instrumental new age/rock crossover acts such as Tangerine Dream or Ozric Tentacles, but God Is an Astronaut have none of their unobtrusiveness, offering an emotionally intense record: the melodies at the heart of these tunes are romantic and often darkly sentimental, but they are delivered in a Wall of Sound of loud guitars and sprawling synthesizer textures that do a great job of evoking the vast fiery spaces and restless mood of the cover artwork. The band knows the value of the occasional breather, in one case stretching it to a full five minutes (“Remaining Light”), and never slips into Isis-like brooding brutality, but on the whole, this music is set on moving the listener, not lulling him into gradually sinking to the bottom of his consciousness. The thing is, God Is an Astronaut’s songwriting and performing prowess may seem calculating, and designed to push the listener into experiencing the planned emotions in the unceremonious fashion of a radio hit, and this may be a turn-off for some. But it can also be said that God Is an Astronaut are simply too good at what they do. – Alexey Eremenko

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