New series: Music moments 1 and 2

Starting a new series called music moments. You know when you listen to a song and something completely unexpected happens and you almost have a mini heart-attack just listening in anticipation for the climax of that wonderful moment? Im cataloging a few of those moments and will do my best to describe the amount of wonderful delight I found within. As a note, these are in no particular order. Its not my favorite to least favorite or anything. So without further adue -

Music moment 1 - God is an Astronaut - Suicide by Star - 3:43



This song seems to be pretty mundane at first. Just solid drum beat and guitar riff rambling atop of synthesizers and an eery feeling of being lost in space. But like right at 2:53 everything gets slammed into fastforward as the astronaut on the video starts suffocating. Guitars slam on distortion and drummer gets a bit crazier but the real magic is at 3:43. The whole band in unision gets really angsty. The drummer kicks in 16th note reels giving the feeling of your heart racing while the guitars maintain the attacks on your ear drums. The synthesizer plays the hook wee-oooh line so perfectly and you feel like you could run a marathon or punch a hobo...



Music moment 2 - Explosions in the Sky - Your Hand in Mine - 4:40



Starting with reverby guitar line sounds cliche especially in post-rock music but its different because its explosions. They pretty much invented rock driven post-rock if that makes sense to anyone but myself. -_-... The guitar line is very serene and calming. Beautiful. Erupts into full band awesomeness at 1:15 which is fulfilling but only for a moment as they fade back out for the guitar to carry his loneliness a tad further. Then BAM! 2:29 sees a different guitar riff. Similar to the previous but somehow remolded. Reborn into something stronger, durable, with more potential. Guitar number 2 comes in with a suplement and the drummer with his cadence like snare helps push the song into a buildup. Around 4 minutes, the band gets into a swag that everyone is comfortable with. Second guitar player starts a quick picking line and gives the illusion that something is happening until our music moment number 2 happens. 4:40 Gives away to a huge shimmering guitar and a drum rolling backup that lifts your soul into an area you havent been in a while. Imagine you and the one you love jumping into eternal happiness together hand in hand.