Explosions in the Sky have announced their first studio album in seven years. The follow-up to 2016’s The Wilderness is called End, and it arrives September 15 via Temporary Residence. They’ve also shared the opening track, ‘Ten Billion People’. Check it out and find the album cover, tracklist, and the band’s upcoming tour dates below.
Despite the album’s title, a press release assures that End will not be Explosions in the Sky’s last LP. It follows their soundtrack for the PBS documentary Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas, which came out in 2021.
“Our starting point was the concept of an ending – death, or the end of a friendship or relationship,” the band said in a statement. “Every song comes from a story, or an idea one of us has had that we’ve all expanded on and made its own world. Maybe it’s our nature, but we kept feeling that the album title was ultimately open to a lot more interpretation – the end of a thing or a time can mean a stop, but it can also mean a beginning, and what happens after one thing ends might pale in comparison to what it becomes next.”
End Cover Artwork:
End Tracklist:
1. Ten Billion People
2. Moving On
3. Loved Ones
4. Peace or Quiet
5. All Mountains
6. The Fight
7. It’s Never Going to Stop
Explosions in the Sky 2023 Tour Dates:
Sep 15 – Houston, TX – The Lawn at White Oak Music
Sep 16 – Dallas, TX – South Side Ballroom
Sep 18 – Nashville, TN – Ryman Auditorium
Sep 19 – Atlanta, GA – The Eastern
Sep 21 – St. Louis, MO – The Pageant
Sep 22 – Omaha, NE – The Admiral Theater
Sep 23 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue
Sep 25 – Chicago, IL – The Salt Shed
Sep 26 – Royal Oak, MI – Royal Oak Music Theatre
Sep 28 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater
Sep 29 – Philadelphia, PA – Franklin Music Hall
Sep 30 – New Haven, CT – College Street Music Hall
Oct 1 – Boaston, MA – Roadrunner
Oct 3 – Washington, DC – 9:30 Club – Washington, DC
Oct 5 – New York, NY – Kings Theatre
Nov 6 – Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street
Nov 7 – Manchester, UK – Albert Hall
Nov 8 – London, UK – Troxy
Nov 9 – Brussels, Belgium – Ancienne Belgique
Nov 11 – Antwerp, Belgium – De Roma
Nov 13 – Utrecht, Netherlands – TivoliVredenberg
Nov 14 – Berlin, Germany – Astra
Nov 15 – Cologne, Germany – Kantine
Nov 17 – Paris, France – Bataclan
Nov 18 – Lyon, France – L’EpicerieModerne
Nov 19 – Barcelona, Spain – Sala Razzmatazz
Nov 20 – Madrid, Spain – La Riviera
