Explosions in the Sky : Prince Avalanche (Soundtrack) LP

In early 2003, a young writer/director contacted Explosions In The Sky requesting permission touse one of their songs in his second film, All the Real Girls. The filmmaker was Texas nativeDavid Gordon Green, and their music was a perfect companion to the elegiac score from fellowTexas composer, David Wingo. That would be the first-ever film license for Explosions In TheSky.Fast-forward a decade: the band's music has become an integral part of countless film andtelevision programs (most notably Friday Night Lights and The Diving Bell and the Butterfly);Green is an internationally renowned, impressively eclectic filmmaker (Pineapple Express, SnowAngels); and Wingo is a highly acclaimed film composer (Mud, Take Shelter) and leader of risingindie-rock group, Ola Podrida. They've all become very close friends, and that tight-knitfriendship spawned Green's stirring new film, Prince Avalanche.While watching the Super Bowl together, EITS drummer Chris Hrasky casually suggested thatGreen use the scorched landscape of Bastrop State Park in Bastrop, TX as the backdrop for afilm. Green took the suggestion and ran with it, remaking the Icelandic indie comedy Either Wayinto an understated dramatic comedy starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch. In keeping with thelow-key, under-the-Hollywood-radar nature of the film, Green tapped Explosions In The Sky andDavid Wingo to score the film.In keeping with the spirit of the filmmaking process, the soundtrack to Prince Avalanche is acasual affair, an earnest collaboration amongst friends recorded entirely in the living rooms of itscomposers. Much like the film, the soundtrack stitches dozens of tiny moments of heartfeltbrilliance into an emotionally resonant whole far more expansive than its intimate roots mightimply. Explosions In The Sky excel at making even the most mundane moments in everyday lifeseem downright revelatory. David Wingo and David Gordon Green have made careers out ofpulling off similar feats in film. It was only a matter of time before these guys all collaborated, andPrince Avalanche delivers on the inspired expectations of such a union.