Austin band my education are skilled in the art of crafting sonic soundscapes. Band members have come and gone in the years that followed since they formed in 1999, but the band itself has always succeeded in taking the music into richer, more psychedelic dimensions with each respective release. This is, after all, a group that takes pride in collaboration, and though they are often classified as post-rock, such a moniker is far too simple. The cinematic instrumental music of my education can be interpreted in any number of ways, since music is an international language.
On March 3rd my education will release their newest album Schiphol. Repeated listens to the album reveal this sense of weightlessness, of timeless beauty, a flashing moment in time crystallized by the kinetic lightning storms the band experienced in the studio while recording. There is a trippiness and undeniable flow to the songs on Schiphol, yet there is also an orchestral preciseness always present. Today Glide Magazine is excited to share an exclusive first listen of one of the album’s most impressive compositions, “Open Marriages”. As ambiguous as its title, the sprawling instrumental captures everything unique about the band with a heavy prog rock sound that gives way into a swelling symphony of layered instruments. “Open Marriages” is only further proof that my education excel in the realm of thinking man’s rock.
Viola player James Alexander has this to say about the song:
Like most of my education’s work, “Open Marriages” was a collaborative composition. Growing from a pair of complimentary guitar riffs, it evolved into a three part ‘opus minimus’ with a reflective midsection and a hard-driving ending. The “meaning” behind the song is, as always with my education, ambiguous. The experience of being in a band like my education is, in a way, like an open marriage – band members go off and play with other musicians and groups and bring the energy of some of those experiences back to the band. Unlike most real open marriages, that has worked out well for this band.
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my education will release Schiphol on March 3rd. For more music and info visit myeducationmusic.com.
Photo credit: Ismael Quintanilla III
