Live music review: Explosions in the Sky, Vicar Street, Dublin

Explosions in the Sky couldn’t have chosen a more appropriate name. As per their moniker, the Austin Texas instrumental troupe specialise in high-soaring, rock pyrotechnics that fizzle and simmer, before invariably erupting into a blaze of riffs.

On the opening date of their world tour, it was like watching a nuclear detonation in musical form, an endless barrage of mushroom-cloud guitars and phosphorescent chord progressions.