Post-Rock thread

post some recommendations on post-rock/math-rock stuff

i would like to know if there's anything similar to these guys, i'm really into their sound

the music you posted reminded me of the first few Modest Mouse LPs, used to like them a lot when I was younger. As far as post-rock goes, I've often felt like stuff like this was the source:

Math-rock-wise you might like this:

Always loved Fridge (Four Tet's old band):

  On 3/17/2019 at 9:40 PM, Salvatorin said:

how is this particular rock "post"?

i remember being addicted to some post-rocky bands back in the day but right now i can't recall anything, guess it was all forgettable... but i've been hooked to this song which i think might fit the post-rock genre and definitely it's worth mentioning...

  On 3/17/2019 at 10:51 PM, THIS IS MICHAEL JACKSON said:

i remember being addicted to some post-rocky bands back in the day but right now i can't recall anything, guess it was all forgettable... 

A lot of it is. Maybe it's kind of the point, but to my mind the original wave of post rock bands were at least original and interesting.

A lot of the newer bands, like Explosions in the Sky, Do Make Say Think and everything that came after, were derivate and formulaic. To my ears, at least.

When this came out in 1994 it sounded really fresh and new (and boring, to me, but then I was in my punk rock phase. It took a few years before I could appreciate music that wasn't just loud and fast).

tortoise!

gastr del sol's camoufleur is another all-time favourite, doesn't get much better than this imho

(edit: also lol at markus popp's recent claim that he basically wrote the whole album - as much as  i love oval, but that guy is just so full of bullshit sometimes, and it seems to be getting worse...)

Post: Tortoise, Swans, Explosions in The Sky, Goodspeed! You Black Emperor, Talk Talk, Stereolab, Mogwai, Sigur Ros.

Math: Battles, Daughters, Slint.  

Slint is math rock?

It's really good, though.

Also, and a bit more recent, there's a collaboration between a former member of Grails and Slint drummer Britt Walford called Watter which is really, really lush:

Math Rock is probably the best it's ever been. Post-Rock is stronger than it's been for a long time, too. i go to a festival every year called ArcTanGent which hosts tons of math rock and post-rock/post-metal bands. check out any of their lineup posters from the past few years and you're bound to find a ton of great new stuff to listen to.

And So I Watch You From Afar are probably the best current band under the 'post-rock' banner, and they'll appeal to math rock dudes too. surprisingly anthemic and have a wide range of appeal all round, from my experience.

  On 3/17/2019 at 10:23 PM, MIXL2 said:

 

  On 3/17/2019 at 9:40 PM, Salvatorin said:

how is this particular rock "post"?

 

this is one of his best primers / guides

here's the spotify link

I love old classics like Mogwai, Slint, GSYBE, early Mono and Sigur Ros, etc. but lately I've been more into the murkier proto-post-rock / early post-rock that bleeds over to dream pop, 'math' rock, shoegaze, drone etc.

Stuff like Seefeel, Duster, Bowery Electric, Tarentel, earlier Earth, early "blackgaze" / droney black metal via Angelic Process or Boris' song "Farewell"

  On 3/19/2019 at 9:52 PM, QQQ said:

surprisingly anthemic and have a wide range of appeal all round, from my experience.

No offense, but "anthemic" does not sound very appealing to me at all.

To my ears post rock started to become boring when it became more rock than post. Fist pumping just doesn't do it for me. Too easy.

YMMV, of course.

na i'm with you, not usually an adjective that would make something appeal to me either, thus the 'surprisingly.' but it's a word i'd use to describe them after seeing them live, where the crowds sing along to the riffs, which is obviously pretty unusual and fun and uh 'anthemic' for instrumental music.

if you like something more on the ambient side of post-rock then yeah, they aren't going to be your thing.

^^^sounds like animals as leaders... or the other way around... which btw reminds me of z-machines by tom... post rock is a really abstract term... is it basically rock that's not heavily influenced by blues?!?!?

People singing along to riffs? Wow ...

ASIWFA is indeed pretty anthemic, btw. 

10 POST ROCK RECORDS YOU’LL NEED TO SELL A LUNG TO PAY FOR

red sparowes

wow dudes thanks so much
a lot of great stuff there, will be listening along these days

  On 3/17/2019 at 9:40 PM, Salvatorin said:

Damn, I came here to do this.