explosions (2 Viewers)

[worthit]

I've only heard 3 or 4 explosions songs so maybe I'm missing something but what's the difference between them and Mogwai?

 

[tibor]

mogwai often use keys,strings,brass etc to fill out their sound, and even have vocals in a few tunes.

explosions dudes are all guitars,all the time.
they have a very distinctive guitar sound, reverb at 11 with a touch of delay.
their guitar riffs are very much plucky single note stuff, very few chords of any kind.
lots of tremelo picking. lots of military style marching drum beats.
a lot of their stuff is all very samey, but mostly very good, mostly.

 

[tibor]

doubledoublepostpost

 

[snap-apple]

eluvium just relied on extreme volume, one of two good tracks, but when someone is using nearly all samples...

been said already, pretty much no samples - mostly live performance looped and layered. that's what i like about his stuff so much - it's performed with live instruments, not just rehashed off a laptop. would be good to see him in a more intimate setting alright.

 

[jimmybreeze]

. would be good to see him in a more intimate setting alright.

Id love to see him in a smaller venue,glad to hear he was good though,I was wondering how some of his stuff would translate live

 

[mazunte]

i thought it was great. nothing revolutionary but plenty of goosebump moments all the same. i'm also really loving tripod at the moment.

 

[timbot]

I've only heard 3 or 4 explosions songs so maybe I'm missing something but what's the difference between them and Mogwai?

Actually, a key difference for me would be that Mogwai tend to take a piece of music or two and just sit on them. Tracy, 2 wrongs make 1 right, etc all pretty much have one or two ideas and Mogwai explore the 2 ideas as much as they can over the course of the song. Which is great.

Explosions tend to change what they are playing a lot more and constantly play different lines against each other.

2 great bands though.