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With vocal supporters like American Analog Set and a show at the end of August at Emo's in Austin with the much ballyhooed Owls, Explosions in the Sky will release their debut disc through Temporary Residence on August 28th. Titled Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever, the record features six songs and runs about 50 minutes long. To make things exciting, you can try to find the sample that could get the band sued by 20th Century Fox.

But what does the album sound like? Will adding it to your already extensive post-rock collection make you hip? Who can we compare it to? The instrumentation is your typical rock band thing-- twin guitars, drums, bass. Toss in some delay and distortion. Layers of chiming guitars that go all metallic and menacing. Drums that go from peacetime to martial law on a dime. Steep it all in sentimental melodies and soft-focus dreamscapes. No, it's not Queensryche, jackass! I guess you'll just have to repeat this class in post-rock seminary school. Your punishment will be writing "Godspeed You Black Emperor!" on the blackboard fifty times. No cursive!