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This Will Destroy You
This Will Destroy You emerged from the Texas post-rock scene in the mid-2000s, building a devoted following through heavy touring and a sound that combined the genre's characteristic crescendo-driven dynamics with a darker, more distortion-heavy intensity than many earlier post-rock acts. Their 2008 self-titled album became one of the more widely embraced post-rock releases of the genre's mid-2000s second wave, a period when the original late-1990s pioneers had already established the template that a younger generation of bands, including This Will Destroy You, continued to build on. The band's extensive film and trailer licensing placements throughout the 2010s helped introduce their instrumental sound to audiences well outside post-rock's traditional listener base, mirroring the broader trend of the genre finding commercial traction through visual media placement. Their combination of their genre-important 2008 self-titled album and their significant film and media licensing reach has made This Will Destroy You one of the most recognizable bands of post-rock's second generation.
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Explosions in the Sky
Explosions in the Sky brought post-rock's instrumental, crescendo-driven sound to a significantly wider mainstream audience than most genre contemporaries, largely through their acclaimed score for the 2004 film "Friday Night Lights" and its subsequent television adaptation. Their 2003 album "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" became one of the genre's most commercially successful and widely recommended entry points, pairing soaring, melodic guitar interplay with a more emotionally direct accessibility than some of post-rock's more abrasive or experimental contemporaries. The band's subsequent film and television scoring work, extending well beyond "Friday Night Lights" into numerous other soundtrack projects, demonstrated post-rock's particular suitability for visual media, a connection few other bands in the genre capitalized on as successfully. Their combination of "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place's" broad accessibility and their genre-expanding film scoring success has made Explosions in the Sky one of the most commercially significant bands in post-rock's history.
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