Austin Sound

Way back in 2007, Skiesfalling released the debut, Mindbreaths from their EXPLP series, which caught our attention with their mix of ambient, electro and post-rock instrumentalism. While all the sessions were recorded between 2005-2006, they have just offered up the second LP in their series, Heroic Dose for free download, and are prepping the third and final release in the series, called The Intelligent Other for this winter.

The group explains the series thusly: “The EXPEP series is a post conception meaning that we came up with the idea to do this series after we had many exceptional, improvisational recorded pieces from our studio that in turn would be very diificult to replicate into rehearsed performances. These pieces simply blossomed out of the moment with no pre-written parts or even a discussion as to what we were attempting to do. Improvisation in its purest sense of tapping in and letting go. These pieces also fare more toward the ambient and experimental vein of Skiesfalling’s sound.”

You can get a teaser of the upcoming album on their myspace. As for Heroic Dose, it’s six tracks spread across over 40 minutes, and is a lot edgier than their earlier release. But perhaps even more exciting than Skiesfalling finally releasing these EXPEP tracks into the world, is that they are almost finished with their first “official” album, meaning that these are composed numbers and reflect more of the band’s live set. That album will be called The Landscape is Changed, and their hoping to have it out by this fall.

Download Heroic Dose here.

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