Claude says:Explosions in the Sky's Friday Night Lights score is post-rock as emotional shorthand—swelling guitars and patient builds that turn high school football and small-town longing into something mythic. You caught it early in 2009 and lived with it for a couple of years, returning most often to "Our Last Days as Children" and the Texas-bookended pair of "From West Texas" and "To West Texas," which feels right for a record about a place and a moment you needed to revisit.