This Will Destroy You

This Will Destroy You, often abbreviated to TWDY, is an American post-rock band from San Marcos, Texas, formed in 2005. The band consists of guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bass player and keyboardist Donovan Jones and drummer Alex Bhore. They typically compose lengthy atmospheric instrumental pieces, featuring layers of effects-laden guitar and a heavy usage of dynamics.

Their latest album, Another Language, was released in September, 2014, and entered the Billboard Heatseekers Album Chart at number 7.

History

Formation (2002–2005)

This Will Destroy You was formed by guitarists Jeremy Galindo and Chris King, bassist Raymond Brown and drummer Andrew Miller in San Marcos, Texas, in 2005. They had met through mutual friends, and played together in various different bands throughout high school before the line-up was finalized by around 2002.

Early iterations of the band featured Galindo on vocals and sounded like Radiohead, but after recording some tracks they decided the results were "awful" and didn't fit in with the rest of their music. After composing their next song "The World Is Our___", the band decided to write instrumental music instead. Chris King said in an interview with BBC Radio Foyle, "we were ... writing different kinds of songs and we wrote one [instrumental] song, and we were like, that works, lets go for it!"

This Will Destroy You (album)

This Will Destroy You is the eponymous first studio album by the American band This Will Destroy You. It was released on January 29, 2008 through Magic Bullet Records.

The vinyl version of the album was pressed on red, blue and white vinyl and contains a quote from the television series Deadwood ("I may have fucked my life up flatter than hammered shit, but I stand before you today beholden to no human cocksucker") etched around the center label.

"Burial on the Presidio Banks" is featured in the final scene of CSI: Miami episode "Flight Risk".

"They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light" was used as part of an NBC introductory film narrated by Tom Brokaw which overviews Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics. It was also used in the independent film The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012), starring Trevor Morgan

"The Mighty Rio Grande" is used prominently throughout the 2011 film Moneyball. In February 2015 the track was used by American web-based production company Rooster Teeth in a tribute video to the late Monty Oum, creator of the popular web series RWBY.