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Today at work I was listening to Explosions in the Sky and thinking to myself that the sound design is why I like The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place but not Those Who Tell the Truth... so much. In other words, the former is generally a pleasure to listen to moment to moment, whereas the latter mostly involves impatient waiting for climaxes or other points of interest.

Beyond that, while this stuff makes for great listening when you want to really overdose on crescendo and melodrama, as background music guitars and drums don't seem to make as much sense to me as synths, sequencers and laptops, simply because electronic music tends to rely so much more heavily on highly refined or processed tone and timbre and the quality of the individual sounds, and much less on volume or histrionics. EITS share certain similarities with a lot of the dance music I listen to, though: long tracks heavy on repetition and adding/subtracting the same elements more than once, or at least outside of a verse/chorus structure.