“Our starting point was the concept of an ending – death, or the end of a friendship or relationship. 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,” say the band about the album.

‘End’ is perhaps the ‘grandest’ Explosions in the Sky album, melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the sonic texturing and ornate experimentation of their later releases, and their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalogue, influenced by personal tastes stretching from classical to soul to experimental ambient music.

The title, ‘End’, furthers a story arc reflected in the album titles that started with the ‘innocence’ of their first album (‘How Strange, Innocence’), progressed through the idealism and romanticism of their second and third albums (‘Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever’ and ‘The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place’), followed by the introspection (‘All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone’ and ‘Take Care, Take Care, Take Care’) and big-picture focus (‘The Wilderness’) of their most recent albums.

The band announced The ‘End’ Tour this spring, bringing their legendary live show experience to 26 cities around the world in 2023. More dates are expected to be announced soon.

They are currently scoring a new, undisclosed, television series that will premiere in 2024.

‘End’ is the band’s seventh, but not final, studio album.

180g vinyl LP in gatefold sleeve with printed inner sleeve.

Available to independent retailers on yellow 180g vinyl.