Oh I like that one. Bought it not too long ago...strange! That's a headphoner though for me. Definitely not a driving selectionOriginally Posted by battema
Oh I like that one. Bought it not too long ago...strange! That's a headphoner though for me. Definitely not a driving selection
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Totally not post rock but badass heavy instrumental rock. And the besty-bestiest best album title + cover you'll see in quite a while:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Kickass-...elease/3846278
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
hmm... ok... perhaps this band (which I personally love) is also "Post Rock" then?Lot's of noodling with jam bands. I'd say post rock is more about atmosphere. Some post rock can be very samey which I don't have patience for. There has to be a little variety and transition for my easily bored brain
https://humanfactor.bandcamp.com/album/homo-universum
Why is it whenever someone mentions an artist that was clearly progressive (yet not the Symph weenie definition of Prog) do certain people feel compelled to snort "thats not Prog" like a whiny 5th grader?
Russian Circles have some pretty awesome stuff. This should give you a decent idea of what they're about...
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses??Correct, its a David O'Sullivan band with David Smith on drums & percussion so thats Guapo's main man (Smith) and the guy hugely influential on what is considered by many as Guapo's peak period (5 Suns, Black Oni, Elixirs) in O'Sullivan.You ain't wrong on the Miasmah / Guapo connection
I personally love Miasma & The Carousel Of Headless Horses, they have a vibe that is outstanding, not post rock but worth checking out is David Smith's project The Stargazers Assistant.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I am far from an expert on the genre, but I am a pretty big fan of Mogwai and if Gosta Berlings Saga is a post rock band, they are great as well. What about Guapo? Anyone consider them post rock? They seem similar to me, but not really sure where they fit.
They were more Zeuhl in the 5 Sun era but they're probably more post rock these days.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I personally never really thought of Guapo or Gosta as post rock myself, but as was said above, post rock is a pretty wide umbrella and if folks want to call band X post rock then...well,
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
Just bought
Caspian - The Four Trees
Pelican - The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw
Russian Circles - Enter
This Will Destroy You - Another Language
First albums for me by each of them
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Suggestion for you Ian, if you haven't gotten it already: Caspian's "Waking Season." A summertime post rock album, if that makes any sense at all. Still heavy, but there's a...I dunno, radiance about the songs.
If you're actually reading this then chances are you already have my last album but if NOT and you're curious:
https://battema.bandcamp.com/
Also, Ephemeral Sun: it's a thing and we like making things that might be your thing: https://ephemeralsun.bandcamp.com
I've been spending weeks coming up with my top 20 Post-rock albums. I should have it done in a week, was going to start a thread about it but maybe I'll just add it here.
Seemed like back in the late nineties a lot of university and college kids got into it. I know my daughter was going to university in the mid 00's and listened to Explosions In The Sky a lot. Loved the line in The Pineapple Express movie where Seth Rogen's character is trying to breakup with his high school girlfriend and says "You're gonna go off to college soon... and you're gonna start listening to bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and the f...ing Shins!"
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
Sad Rain
Anekdoten
I'm surprised by the lack of someone questioning whether Post Rock is an actual genre, or simply a label used for rock albums from a certain time period. I remember that the first two supposedly Post Rock albums that were recommended to me were Tortoise's "Millions Now Living Will Never Die" and Magnog's s/t debut. Pretty different types of music if you ask me. I know progressive rock does SORT OF the same thing, but not really.
Guapo's "History of the Visitation" has that Post Rock thing going on. I can pick up on the Zeuhl, but Tremors From The Future seems PR.
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A lot of people feel Talk Talk's Spirit Of Eden is where it all started. Bark Psychosis' Hex gets mentioned too. I just like where Godspeed took it and others with that apocalyptic sound in the latter nineties.
"The wind is slowly tearing her apart"
Sad Rain
Anekdoten
My favourite Post Rock/Math Rock has to Explosion in the Sky. I have all their albums and collected a few movies with their soundtracks
I like to think I was an early fan of the genre in the second half of the 90's, when I flashed onto early GYBE, Tortoise and returned on the last two Talk Talk (which I'd not thought of as genre-starting before the millenium).
Second wave like ExplosionsITS or Mogwai failed to move me the same way.
Absolutely... and what a fantastic debut album that was
But you're right, I don't listen much (if at all) to post-rock nowadays. AAMOF, if the genre still exist, I consider it a bit brain-dead but still coma-assisted alive, coz there hasn't been something novel since 05. At least nothing that I'm aware of
GBS Post-rock??some of the time maybe, but it's not really the first genre I'd throw them into.
Naaah, it's more of a form of heavy ambience minimalism... Think of Bartsch's Ronin or The Necks with searing guitars
Yup, I found a few minutes of Ros gorgeous, but this is absolutely tiring and boring beyond the fourth minutes.
Today, the those Hope(less)landic vocals irritate me more than anything else
Guapo became Post Rock after their zeuhl era (5 suns and lack Oni), BGS, not, IMHOI personally never really thought of Guapo or Gosta as post rock myself, but as was said above, post rock is a pretty wide umbrella and if folks want to call band X post rock then...well,
Yup, I must say that the Constellation label and its bands did an amazing amount of inspiration for the genre, but in retrospect, it might've carved or dug its own hole/grave, that umltimately is too tight. But yes, I thought that the label's general Post-Apocalytic sonics suited the genre's name to a perfection. Do Make Say Thing and GYBE were my faves... Caught them a few times in concert, but they were just as minimalistic on stage as in the studio, IMHO.
Not sure I would englobe Bark Psychosis in the post-rock genre, though (partly because of the vocals), but it's definyely in the vicinity
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
GBS Post-rock??
I have no idea what constitutes Post-Rock. My first exposure to the term was GYBE! back around 2000, and since I didn't care for them, I didn't explore further. However, when GBS played Nearfest, Post-Rock was the descriptor used for them several times online, (not necessarily the NF website,) and I may have heard that at the venue as well. Whether it's correct or not is for others to say.
Never heard of them, but I really like that sample! Time to dig in!
I've been listening to these guys too a bit lately...
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
If I had to name one band to epitomize Post Rock's sound, I'd say it's GYBE...
A bit like Magma epitomizes Zeuhl, or Marillion (both with Fish and Hogarth) for Neo-prog
IMHO, of course.
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
The post-rock I was exposed to always sounded like unfinished backing tracks, just waiting for somebody to actually do something over them.
Agreed
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
Isn't post rock the music that the mail carrier and his co-workers jam out when they get off work?
If it isn't Krautrock, it's krap.
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That makes you what you are" - Ian Anderson
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Not really post-rock, but definitely indie, I find more changes within compositions with artists like 'Signals', 'Young Dreams', and 'Field Music'. Signals has a lot of nice live performances on YouTube and I may actually prefer their unplugged performances.
The nice thing you may like about post rock artists is bands like Tortoise and Godspeed... are instrumental, even though compositional changes aren't generally part of the mix
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