This Will Destroy You – Tunnel Blanket (2011) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Drone, Soundscapes
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Tracklist :

01. Little Smoke
02. Glass Realms
03. Communal Blood
04. Reprise
05. Killed The Lord, Left For The New World
06. Osario
07. Black Dunes
08. Powdered Hand

This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005. They had met through mutual friends, and played together in various different bands throughout high school, before the line-up was finalised by around 2002. Early iterations of the band experimented with vocals, sung by Galindo, but after recording some tracks they decided the results were “awful” and didn’t fit in with the rest of their music. The band then tried writing different tracks, one of which was instrumental. Chris King said in an interview with BBC Northern Ireland, “we were … writing different kinds of songs and we wrote one [instrumental] song, and we were like, that works, lets go for it!” The band took it’s name from an early song that they were originally going to call “This Will Destroy You”, but this was rejected for being too pretentious. The band found the name “hilarious”. When asked whether he wished the band had chosen a different name, King said to Rock Sound, “It’s supposed to be a little bit obnoxious. There’s something about people automatically hating you before you play that’s kind of endearing. It gets to the point where it’s over-the-top obnoxious. It’s an attention-grabber and people will check it out I guess. Even if they hate it.”

After dropping their self-titled debut album in 2008, This Will Destroy You stuck to smaller releases for about two years. They recorded a split with Lymbyc Systym in 2009 and then dropped an EP, Moving on the Edges of Things, last year. But this May, the Texas post-rock quartet will release their proper sophomore effort,Tunnel Blanket, on Suicide Squeeze Records. With this album, the guys are looking to break away from the typical post-rock mold. And they’re doing that by presenting a record built more on soundscapes and brooding atmospherics than crescendos and reverb.

This Will Destroy You - Moving On The Edges Of Things [EP] (2010)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient, Drone !?!?!?
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Tracklist :

1. Rituals (09:32)
2. Woven Tears (04:52)

This Will Destroy You is an American instrumental post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller with Brown playing the keyboard for live performances. They are currently signed to Magic Bullet Records.

According to their Tumblr site, they completed the recording of Tunnel Blanket on February 12, 2010 with long time collaborator John Congleton . A release date is TBA. Before 'Tunnel Blanket' is released a new two-song 12" entitled Moving on the Edges of Things is due out August 10, 2010; and a three-track single entitled "Communal Blood" is set to be released in May 2010.

[me]hmm.. this EP sounds nothing like twdy i know... i'm gonna save judgment for Tunnel Blanket :D

This Will Destroy You Tour Dates & Free Mp3 of the First New Single

This Will Destroy You to Kick Off US Tour

Gives You a Taste of Their “Communal Blood,”

FREE Mp3 of the First Single off

Their New Album, Tunnel Blanket

“This Will Destroy You use their instruments expertly to create a brooding anxiety that threatens to erupt at any moment.” - Pitchfork

“Texas quartet This Will Destroy You has woven a variety of influences into unique post-rock instrumental sound that is turning up in a variety of places, from movie trailers to the Pentagon.” – AOL Spinner

If they haven’t already destroyed you, Texas post-rockers This Will Destroy You, will do just that. After conquering Europe with their cinematic brand of post-rock, the quartet — comprised of with a line-up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bassist/keys Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore — returned to the U.S. newly invigorated. They went straight to the studio and began recording their much-anticipated album, Tunnel Blanket, with critically acclaimed producer John Congleton (Explosions in the Sky, Modest Mouse, Chairlift). The Congleton sessions found the band taking an evolutionary step forward from their previous release, S/T. The end result, Tunnel Blanket, explores darker, more challenging territories than their previous releases.

Performing new material from Tunnel Blanket, This Will Destroy You is heading on the road this summer. Kicking off in their home state of Texas on May 26^th, the band will perform a series of dates on the East Coast and in the South. Interested in a taste of the band before catching This Will Destroy You live? Try their “Communal Blood,” for you to post and share. They will also be bringing the 12” single of “Communal Blood,” a limited (500) album pressing that will only be available at concerts.

This Will Destroy You Tour Dates

05/26 DENTON, TX @ The Boiler Room

05/27 AUSTIN, TX @ The Mohawk

05/28 SHREVEPORT, LA @Silver Lake Ballroom

05/29 BIRMINGHAM, AL @ Bottletree

05/30 TAMPA, FL @ New World Brewery

06/01 JACKSONVILLE, FL @ Jack Rabbit’s

06/02 ATLANTA, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn

06/03 NEWPORT, KY @ Southgate House

06/04 CHICAGO, IL @ Lincoln Hall

06/05 TORONTO, ON @ Rivoli Cabaret

06/06 MONTREAL, QC @ Petit Campus

06/07 ALISTON, MA @ Great Scott

06/08 BROOKLYN, NY @ Knitting Factory

06/09 NEW YORK, NY @ Mercury Lounge

06/10 WASHINGTON, DC @ DC9

06/11 PHILADELPHIA, PA @ Kung Fu Necktie

06/12 CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA @ Random Row Books

06/13 CHAPEL HILL, NC @ Local 506

06/15 CHARLESTON, SC @ The Oasis

06/16 KNOXVILLE, TN @ Pilot Light

06/17 NASHVILLE, TN @ The End

06/18 NEW ORLEANS, LA @ Saturn Bar

06/19 HOUSTON, TX @ Mango’s

This Will Destroy You / Lymbyc Systym - Field Studies EP (Leaaaak ^^)

Genre : Post-rock, Electronica
Release Date : January 09
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This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You (2008) (AWESOME !!!)

Genre : Post-rock, Ambient
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Tracklist :

1. A Three-Legged Workhorse
2. Villa Del Refugio
3. Threads
4. Leather Wings
5. The Mighty Rio Grande
6. They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light
7. Burial on the Presidio Banks

This Will Destroy You is an American instrumental post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas. The band is made up of guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bass player Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller with Brown playing the keyboard for live performances. They are currently signed to Magic Bullet Records.
The band formed in 2005 and has released one EP, Young Mountain, which was originally supposed to be the band's demo. The EP has received favorable reviews. They began recording their self-titled debut in February 2007, which was released on January 29, 2008

Many times, this band compared to Sigur Rós and Explosions in the Sky, and I must say I have to agree with the comparisons. The truth is, This Will Destroy You haven’t reinvented post-rock. But, much like the discovery of a new species of poison frog, the band have uncovered a new layer of it, offering music that differs slightly in scope.

Someone said, that space is silent; that every movie that portrays an open space explosion with digitally enhanced sounds is falsely illustrating what it is really like out there. But I choose to agree with Hollywood, only because I believe that if astronauts played This Will Destroy You while drifting through space, they'd feel much more like they belonged there.