This Will Destroy You (album)

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = This Will Destroy You | type = studio | artist = This Will Destroy You | cover = This Will Destroy You album.jpg | alt = | released = January 29, 2008 | recorded = February 2007 | venue = | studio = Pedernales Studios, Spicewood, Texas;<br>Nomad Studios, Dallas, Texas | genre = {{flatlist| *Post-rock *ambient }} | length = 51:30 | label = Magic Bullet | producer = John Congleton | prev_title = Young Mountain | prev_year = 2006 | next_title = Field Studies | next_year = 2009 }} {{Music ratings |rev1=AbsolutePunk |rev1score=(90%)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=293230 |title=This Will Destroy You: This Will Destroy You |author=Solomon, Blake |work=AbsolutePunk|date=January 30, 2008 |accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref> |rev2=''Decibel'' |rev2score=(8/10)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://a919.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/26/l_a9c0a2e60893c6f628d56ed47569d51e.jpg |title=This Will Destroy You: This Will Destroy You |author=Smith, Rod |work=Decibel |publisher=Red Flag Media Inc |accessdate=March 23, 2011 |location=Philadelphia |issn=1557-2137 |format=JPEG}}</ref> |rev3=Drowned in Sound |rev3score=(8/10)<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://drownedinsound.com/releases/12623/reviews/3093180-?search |title=This Will Destroy You: This Will Destroy You |author=Diver, Mike |work=Drowned in Sound |date=March 27, 2008 |accessdate=February 4, 2011 |archive-date=October 10, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121010224558/http://drownedinsound.com/releases/12623/reviews/3093180-?search |url-status=dead }}</ref> |rev4=''Rock Sound'' |rev4score=(9/10)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.magicbulletrecords.com/press/twdyalbumofmonth.jpg |title=Reviews: Album of the Month. This Will Destroy You: This Will Destroy You |author=Taylor, Darren |work=Rock Sound |location=London |date=January 2008 |issue=105 |page=79 |accessdate=February 2, 2011 |issn=1465-0185 |format=JPEG}}</ref> |rev5=StrangeGlue.com |rev5score={{Rating|8|10}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://strangeglue.com/reviews/this-will-destroy-you-st/1000959 |title=This Will Destroy You: S/T |author=Williamson, Aidan |work=strangeglue.com |date=November 30, 2007 |accessdate=February 4, 2011}}</ref> }} '''''This Will Destroy You''''' is the second studio album by American avant-rock band This Will Destroy You. It was released on January 29, 2008, through Magic Bullet Records.

==Track listing== {{track listing | all_writing= This Will Destroy You | total_length = 51:30 | title1 = A Three-Legged Workhorse | length1 = 9:12 | title2 = Villa Del Refugio | length2 = 7:06 | title3 = Threads | length3 = 5:41 | title4 = Leather Wings | length4 = 3:30 | title5 = The Mighty Rio Grande | length5 = 11:18 | title6 = They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light | length6 = 6:59 | title7 = Burial on the Presidio Banks | length7 = 7:44 }}

==Personnel== ;This Will Destroy You * Jeremy Galindo - guitar * Raymond Brown - bass guitar, keyboard * Chris King - guitar * Andrew Miller - drums

;Additional musicians * Stephanie McVeigh - cello (tracks 1, 5 and 7)

;Production *John Congleton - producer, engineer and mixer *This Will Destroy You - producers *Alan Douches - mastering

==Appearances in popular culture== {{Unreferenced section|date=September 2025}} *"Burial on the Presidio Banks" was featured in the final scene of the ''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 2012 independent film ''The Diary of Preston Plummer'' starring Trevor Morgan. *"The Mighty Rio Grande" was used prominently throughout the 2011 film ''Moneyball''; in a tribute video by American web-based production company Rooster Teeth to the late Monty Oum, creator of the popular web series RWBY in February 2015; in the 2014 science-fiction film ''Earth to Echo''; in the 2013 film ''Lone Survivor''; in the 2015 film ''Room''; in the 2016 television show ''Lethal Weapon''; in a Verizon commercial that played during Super Bowl LIII; and in the season finale of ''Welcome to Wrexham: Season 4 (2025)'' episode "Do a Wrexham". *"Villa Del Refugio" was featured in a ''World War Z'' scene. *"The Mighty Rio Grande" was featured in an ESPN 30 for 30 about the 1985 Chicago Bears. *A 2017 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qasxqKScOfY video] set a timed Line Rider track to the entirety of the album, gaining over three million views on YouTube.

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Category:2008 debut albums Category:This Will Destroy You albums Category:Albums produced by John Congleton