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Seeing Sigur Ros tomorrow!
Jarne:
Filk, when I saw them I had trouble figuring out which sound was attached to the guitar as well, but it is there.
greenMonkey:
Even though they get compared to Mogwai, its only because they're one of the higher profile post-rock bands out there. I agree that their sound is very different from that of Mogwai, and I love both Mogwai and Sigur Ros. The bowed-guitar is all chords, and a good example of the sound is in their song "Svefn-g-enlgar", it sounds like sort of a fat humming overdrive-y noise to my ears.
greenMonkey:
--- Quote ---Post-rock is a music genre characterized by nontraditional use of instruments and high musical density...The term was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and power chords."
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From the Wikipedia definition of 'Post-Rock'. Sigur Ros may be more on the lyrical, convetional rock side of the genre, but I think they fit the description pretty well.
destructotroninator:
Ummmmm. I saw Sigur Ros in Boston on Sunday night at the Bank of America Pavilion. For those who don't know, it's pretty much a stage with an expensive, huge ass tarp over the seats. This was the night before all hell broke loose with the flooding. It was, uh, raining pretty hard to say the least. Holy fucking god it was amazing.
I just back to my house a little while ago thanks to the flooding and I'm not really in any state to sit here and describe the experience, but uggggggggh. It was absolutely fantastic.
Borondir:
My brother drove several hours from Ithaca to the show in Boston. I was so jealous, because I was studying for finals about 800 miles west of there.
He was absolutely ecstatic about it though, both the music and the visual presentation.
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