This Will Destroy You to release the highly anticipated Tunnel Blanket on May 10, 2011

Will Be Playing New Tracks at SXSW

Give You “Communal Blood” to Download and Share
 
“This Will Destroy You use their instruments expertly to create a brooding anxiety that threatens to erupt at any moment.”
– Pitchfork

In any relationship, it’s often what’s not said that lingers longest, taken from an encounter and rendered indelible. Texan four-piece This Will Destroy You realize this better than most instrumental outfits, peppering their material with dialogue that’s no slave to language, to vowels and tongues. It’s communication without bounds, expressive and emotive and, most importantly of all, highly memorable.
 
Tunnel Blanket is the group’s second long-player. It follows a well-received eponymous debut of 2008, a record that earned the band many an attractive comparison to post-rockers who, for the sake of the past being just that, will remain nameless here. But to This Will Destroy You – founding guitarists Chris King and Jeremy Galindo, bassist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore – the parallels were not so welcomed. Their sound world was theirs alone to inhabit, any coincidences just that. So, for album two, a new direction was inevitable, ties binding them to any scene tossed and forgotten.
 
Tunnel Blanket delivers the epic-in-scope soundscapes that followers of its makers’ previous recordings are accustomed to, but presents them in new lights – where once the sun shone down bright upon immediate tropes and traits, now their work is better suited to distant starlight, casting changeable shadows across vistas of inspired, ambitious amplification. This is not an album to pick through in search of bold hooks and instant melodies. It is an ever-shifting, always moving work, which seems to evolve before the listener – spidery guitar lines feeling their way forth like vines scrambling up trunks in time-lapse photography.
 
TRACK-LISTING
1. Little Smoke
2. Glass Realms
3. Communal Blood
4. Reprise
5. Killed the Lord, Left
for the New World
6. Osario
7. Black Dunes
8. Powdered Hand