Each album released by the group typically consists of at least two very long instrumental songs. Their first two albums, Sonic Prayer and Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky, followed this pattern (the latter with a bonus cover version of "Cherry Red" by The Groundhogs, a conventionally short song with lyrics and vocals, on the CD edition), but From the Ages had four songs, three of which were over ten minutes long and all of which had no vocals. On its CD edition, Live at Roadburn has one track on each disc, but four songs altogether, as there are no track separations on either disc, representing a typical concert performance from the band.
Live at Roadburn is the band's second live album (behind Sonic Prayer Jam), and their third main album overall,[17] released on October 7, 2008 by Tee Pee Records. It consists of four instrumental pieces spread across two CDs, with no track separations on either disc. The album was recorded at the thirteenth Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, the Netherlands on April 18, 2008, and mastered by Paul Gold at Salt Mastering in Brooklyn.[18] The band were unexpectedly moved to the main stage of the festival and played for almost an hour and a half,[13] to many more people than they had expected.[3] Originally scheduled to play to 250 people in the smallest room of the event as the main act, the band were invited at the last minute to instead perform as the last act on the main stage to 2000 concertgoers,[17] as the scheduled band Isis only performed for half of their two-hour slot.[19] Earthless were not aware the performance had even been recorded,[19] but they had no objection when Tee Pee Records requested they release an album based on the performance,[20] liking the recordings themselves.[3][17] Rubalcaba described the album as "the most honest representation of [Earthless] that you're gonna get on a record",[3] and said that if listeners did not like the album they would not like the band's shows.[17]
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