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God is an Astronaut is a three man army that make "heavenly" instrumental post-rock witch consists of the usual guitar/ bass/ drums sound, but adding to it synth effects to their sound and I mean a lot of synth effects witch is the main attraction in their sound.

Their songs are very catchy and rather short (only two song pass the 5 minute mark) making their sound accessible and easy to digest for normal mainstream listeners and prog heads without the need of extra patience most bands of the genre require. Their sound is energetic and very melodic with the center of attention being shared with the guitar or the piano. Thanks to the synth effects and lovely piano work they make you feel like you're flying above the clouds and enjoying the view and feeling the breeze, but then all of the beauty stops and the energy in their sound start to show off with bombastic playing by the members of the band will still having that melodic edge and that's when you hit the ground hard, but instead of feeling painful it's really fun and enjoyable and you just want to do it again. Not all of the songs in the album follow the crescendo formula Godspeed uses and that's a good thing. Highlights of the album are "All is Violent, all is Bright" (great and fierce drumming near the end), the beautiful "Forever Lost" and the dynamic "Suicide by Star". The rest of the song follow closely behind this ones. So the album has a nice balance and there aren't bad songs.

This is a very accessible album and have a mainstream feel to it, but don't let that keep you from enjoying them. The drawback of the album is that the magic wears off after repeated listening. The effects won't sound as ear blowing as the first times and that's when the album settles. I don't think that it would be an excellent addition to any prog collection, but it is an excellent addition to any post-rock collection. So if you're into the genre or just starting out, go and get All is Violent, all is Bright. It'll win your heart from the first listen.

God is an Astronaut - All is violent, all is bright

It was only fairly recent that I discovered this album. I read a lot of positive comments on them and decided to check upon them as soon as possible. This eventually meant that I obtained a copy of their 2005 studio album 'All is Violent, All is Bright', which is what this review will be all about.

This 48 minutes lasting, 10 tracks comprising album is a full-blown instrumental and all the songs included here are epic soundscapes, which on occasions share resemblances with Sigur Ròs and Godspeed! You black Emperor, whereas on other moments they distinctly remind me of the epic space rockers of British bands Oceansize and Amplifier.

If this album resembles their typical sound, then I cannot wait to get my hands on the other items included in their discography. Breathy synthesizers accompany the melodic guitar segments and the drummer creates a great foundation for the others to work on freely.

The link to Sigur Ròs wasn't made only because the compositions remind me of some of their work, but also because the vocals here are, just like those of Sigur Ròs vocalist Jónsi Birgission's, used as an important aspect of the composition. they are in fact an instrument for the band to use!

I find that time flies by when I listen to this album, the various melodies are not too complicated, for prog rock standards that is, but the overall combination of the various instruments, the spacey atmosphere, the variation in melodies, chords, pace etc. just make me really appreciate this album. What impressed me a lot was the use of drum computers on a couple of tracks, without losing the epic sound that they manage to create song upon song upon song. I cannot wait to replay the album when the closing track When everything dies has ended, indicating that the last 48 minutes, yet again, flew by without realising it was that long a time.

In short: you like heavy distorted walls of sound? You like spacey, breathy keyboards, you like intensive but laidback drumming? You like melodic as well as distorted guitars? --> Listen to this!

Up to my proper but unsophisticated (unspecialized, just as well) experience, coming from a pleasure and a special sense for the genre, I find most of the music cornered around a point of style attraction; around a cue cluster (expect the most astonishing climax of gift and chaos, that we're talking both the wildest and most dramatic exception and the big nuance of an ethalon). Thus comes the main orientations of subsisting minor harmony play, crystal clean improvisation of surreal notes, math or indie strikes and rhythms, constructive glamour of a sound wreckage, the notes of a retro-acid music, the real but distorted gem of a pure experimentalism or the fashion of ensemble-pulse dark jam - all this (plus minor more I could just as well have missed, it's a nice diversity of a genre, in all) as experimental/post-rock spread out musicianship and musical dexterity. Upon this well-appended name of God Is An Astronaut and their recent, but healthy music projection, the definitions run a bit low on many things and curiosity. If that would be in benefit of music galore, all the finest, yet music in its particular role wallops a very groovy taste of our own, with a less confident brilliant shrug, letting us know that they're on the hotspot of "beautiful excursion", but that they're not the top rank of value's heurism. But for what's left of this first paragraph, let's only mention my vision of the band and its music being constantly an easy stepped-in asphyxiate musical arrangement, with some emotion in some cold and fading-on miracle fall.

Considering their finest yet (true, only two choice, up to now) album streak, All Is Violent All Is Bright, I share couple of satisfactions, thus probably couple of detail comfort shines for the frequent experience to exceed itself in. First of all, they come to a full post rock form of play and concept, after their debut was moreover a dub of such a gait stupor in a superficial repetition and an almost electric intended serenity. Here lies a very intuitive power of no restraint (even no control, when the sound burst your head) vast pretense of dense and trance. With emotiveness and acupuncturist doldrums and void entraining (dark colors, insidious traces of departed dreams, small evidence of a collided breath), this album is mature, convincing, enjoyable, even well equitable for something of a power point expression, in our genre's solid, constant, but also somehow changing efforts. Second "joy" is that of a duplex between a good will and a frantic despair. Should say enough, unless something's stone proof. Thirdly, I still share something of my first listen's impression, which was bombastic and almost euphorically perceived, anyway marked by an inspiration interest in hearing a large variation of "nice surplices", so I share that most high raise possibility of an impression, even with the album's gravity, upon further and concessive spin-offs, having become mutually good, decisively of nothing above.

In an hour of good moves, amongst the simplest of creation but the purest of chaotic humor, God Is An Astronaut act "solemnly" on the verge of mass sound and keenest of inductive resonance. It's all a conundrum between the fashionable scale of withering heavy intone, with some dredge ambiance, with a visionary pulse of hectic and beyond, but mostly with a mainstream core of disillusion (or pulse bends), with frightening (but also frightened within, as in sufficiently scarce) amass of dark manipulation and beckon and with the melodic sporadic touch of a dazzle illumination. It's all of their inner passion within our surfaced sophistication (and complications, for when the sound mass becomes to harsh or when the pulse drop off the weight of a freeze glitch). Variations of colors (which, I think, would have been the best effect ever, for the talent and the perspective of grey & shady mix and smash tone) are mostly covered by a band orchestration (a good one, it can be guessed), by a fluid triumph (as easy as it resonates, as hard as it can sound unremitting) and by a visionary serenity (the kind of a fake dream reaching such intense stashes). In some aftertaste, there can be a hint of experimentalism and righteous disorder. But no, rather familiar is the surround of fresh, impressionistic, young upright hide, post mantle.

With nothing juvenile, all left is a memorable strange rocketed effort, for the lights of lucky taste and oriented art. A bit of a paradox with a bit of a continuously repeated trend, everything is raw "violent" in God Is An Astronaut's upper sync, but also all is comfortably "bright". A good recommendation for the featureless expectation. A nice dark walk to imagine.

God is an Astronaut is a three-piece instrumental post-rock band reminiscent of artists such as Explosions in the Sky and Mono. The songs build up from tranquil ambiance to blistering intensity throughout the whole album. It's quite a beautiful piece of music I have to say and I've been addicted to it for about a week or two now. Everything is very catchy, but also has a lot of feeling. If you listen to Explosions in the Sky, whose music is also featured in Friday Night Lights, you'll know what I'm talking about.

For anyone not familiar with their sound, imagine taking some epic electronic movie soundtrack or something and adding some tasty guitar with lots of reverb. The music here is never complex, and sticks to just making some nice melodies. So if you want to relax and enjoy some nice thinking music, try this.

This Irish trio make some of the most beautiful post-rock music i have ever heard.Melodic soundscapes with synths washing over them constantly.The sound doesn't slowly build like many post-rock bands,rather the build ups happen quickly,usually in a couple of minutes.There isn't a bad song on this album. Fragile builds quickly although it reaches another level after 2 1/2 minutes and calms down as it ends. All Is Violent,All Is Bright is another song that builds fairly fast.The drums are really active after 3 minutes as the sound again reaches another level. Forever Lost is one of my favoutites.Just a beautiful sounding song with piano and synths leading the way. Fire Flies And Empty Skies opens with guitar as drums come pounding in.A fuller sound arrives before a minute before the song relaxes again.This contrast of soft and loud continues. A Deafening Distance is another one i like a lot.The first 2 1/2 minutes are very pleasant sounding and then it becomes much more powerful. Infinite Horizons is another gorgeous song with the atmospheric guitar and synths. Suicide By Star features some upfront drumming as the sound becomes full 3 minutes in.It gets intense a minute later. Remembrance Day opens with what sounds like the wind as piano comes in.Synths 1 1/2 minutes in followed by drums, then a full sound 3 minutes in. Dust And Echoes is another favourite.Guitar,synths and drums as the song builds.It calms down a minute later to end it. When Everything Dies opens with reserved piano melodies and synths.More energy and sound before 3 minutes.Drums and piano lead the way a minute later. A very enjoyable and positive experience.Not complex by any means, just great music that you can relax to.

Forever lost...

How can one song be so simple, but at the same time be so emotive, beautiful, dark, happy, amazing, and incredible at the same time? If you want to check out this album, get it for just this song, this is the suppers ready for electronic post rock, IT'S THAT GOOD!

Anyways, on to my unbiased review, I really want to give this album three stars, but I'm having too much trouble doing that. Though some of the songs are kind of samey, and towards the end there is a bit of monotony, really this is a friggin' solid album. Filled with memorable melodies, riffs, beats, and everything else post rawk is supposed to be about, though I wont go far enough o say it's a masterpiece.

The based AROUND the guitar, not based on the guitar! The guitar will usually start a nice arpeggio, or chord progression, than the keyboards, and eerie My Bloody valentine-ish vocals will come in, followed by acoustic drums making a very solid electronic beat. These, unlike most post rock, go on through a more... erm... standardized song structure, where the songs will go Loud, soft, Loud, BRIDGE, Loud, Soft. I know scary, but I guess that's why they are among one of the most commercially successful post bands out there (next to Explosions in the sky, and Sigur ros) even with a hit from the album, the opener Fragile, which ironically does follow a more standard post rock song structure, with the huge ending climax.

This album is a great album for the people who have trouble with the more inaccessible greats such as Godspeed You! Black emperor, or some of the weirder experimental stuff like Tortoise. This is very easy listening catchy post rock, plain and simple, and a great starter for anyone into the genre. The music is slow and emotional, but isn't long, and drawn out, or overly experimental. At the same time though, I can understand why some super post rock fanboys wouldn't like theses guys for that, or why some hard core proggers would bash the group for these trends. Well, I guess you can put me in both of these factions, and I love the music, therefore I recommend anyone who's not afraid of simplicity, electronic, or instrumental music a go at this amazing collection of music. Four stars for God is an Astronauts All is violent, all is bright.

I've never seen an album get so similar ratings by all members: all of them have given this record 4 stars. And, for once, I can't help to absolutely agree.

GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT has really surprised me. It's no secret that post-rock has serious problems with me: its too-long songs which consist of mostly one theme altered dynamically over time with crescendos that almost invariably end in a huge climax, all of this played in the same tempo, have never been my thing. I found a post-rock record I like a few months ago, and now I can say I've found another that even beats that one and becomes my favorite in this genre.

The great thing about "All is Violent, All is Bright" is that it plays to the strengths of the genre and not to the weaknesses (in my opinion of course). The songs (well, tracks, as none of them are actually sung) are very short, averaging about 4 and a half minutes each. In that short amount of time, it's much easier to accept that the idea of just one melody/theme being played repeatedly is enough to create a song. It helps and a lot that the melodies/themes that GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT comes up with are of the utmost beauty.

Another strong point of this record are the textures, the harmonies that can be found under the main melodic discourse. It has always been one of the good things about this genre, and in this recording the idea gets a perfect treatment. Layer after layer of guitars create a wonderful sonic world, populated by tons of colors that help magic emerge.

The tempos, also, are varied and never get repetitive. Next to slow tracks we have faster ones. The same can be said about the mood of the album. Such an atmospheric record as this never gets depressing, as many other albums in this genre do.

In general, "All is Violent, All is Bright" never sounds like it's trying too hard to be "modern" or "unique". The music, played with great skill by the excellent performers, is just what it needs to be. I thought of giving this album a perfect rating but I think that a little more thematic-melodic variation within tracks would have been welcome. Think of this rating as a 4.49.

Excellent record. One of the most atmospheric and magical I've heard in a long time.

If Canada is the most notorious country in indie-post rockin instru bands, Ireland seems to have fund its own figure under the name God is an astronaut. All is Violent, All is Bright provides basic pop orientated pieces with some slow moving textures and delicate-subjective melodies into it. The atmospheres are supposed to be moody, plaintive and serene. However the result is rather cheap and amateurish, including common rules and pop-ish conventions. I must admit that those superficial sides are almost constant in the so called post (math) rock scene: bands are surfing on intimate, sleepy and intropective sound territories but they always fail to reach sonic-cinematic landscapes, probably because this music is functional and made by teenagers for teenagers. This is radio friendly music specialised in soporific reveries. The accent is put on easy-listening emotional rockin sequences. All is Violent, All is Bright is the perfect combination between pop-ambient and peaceful-generical background music for teenages' road movies. If you feel romantic, this is the album to play in order to seduce your teenage girl. God is an astronaut gives you the illusion to fly away but it remains a sterile escaping without comunion with anything that are beyond our understanding. Nevertheless a few marginal-post rock combos deserve a listen (Deaf Center, Machinefabriek, Jasper TX's a darkness. If I'm not wrong none of them is mentionned in the archives).