End is perhaps the “grandest”Explosions In The Sky album – melding the quiet restraint and crushing feel of their early releases with the aural exploration and ornate experimentation of their later works (while incorporating their increasingly deep film and television scoring catalog)

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 WhoTell the Truth Shall Live Forever and The Earth is Not aCold Dead Place), followed by the introspection (All of aSudden I Miss Every one and Take Care, Take Care, TakeCare) and introspection and big-picture focus (TheWilderness) of their most recent albums)