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I wish post-rock was split in two
Radiowar:
--- Quote from: nuisance ---Have you heard any of the groups mentioned in Reynolds' article? This is where the term post-rock was coined, and it's all about how groups interface with technology, reject the live band approach, etc. Electronics. Check out something like Disco Inferno, who sing songs over a jammed mess of musical and concrete samples, and tell me how that relates to Iceland's answer to U2.
Sorry, I know this is pointless, I'll stop.
(Man, Seefeel were awesome...)
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Hmm never thought of Seefeel as post-rock. Bark Psychosis definitely were though.
oscard:
IMO Post-rock is the conveyence of emotion without words (or decipherable words in Sigur Ros' case). I am a lover of post-rock. It doesnt deserve to be split. Tortoise and GYBE have eual claim to the title. Just like the Mogwai's and Do Make Say thinks that came with them, or the Explosions in the Sky's and Japandi's. They all have equal right. Genres are used to describe a type of music into a catagory so you dont have to spend mind numbing hours trying to find more of the drug for your fix.
For me my conclusions of post rock came from the fact I would often enter a dream-like epiphinated state. Where when the song or album was done I could reflect on things with much more of an ease. GYBE, as 'moody' as it may be, brings images of peace. Most of todays post-rock albums bring you in a leave you with a feeling of peace. A strange Neutrality.
(Oh also on groups IMO they would look a bit like this:
-More Jazzy-
Tortoise
Do Make Say Think
Japandi
More Rock-
Godspeed
Mogwai
Explosions in the Sky
More Jazzy or More rock I love them both the same.)
Fleagle:
Wasn't Stereolab considered "post-rock"?
Kai:
and Fugazi's albums, to an extent.
greenMonkey:
--- Quote from: oscard ---IMO Post-rock is the conveyence of emotion without words
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Not a great definition. Almost all music manages to convey an emotion, whether by vocals or by instrumentals. We can't just start calling a piece of music (for example, Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade) post-rock just because it has no vocals and conveys lots of emotion (which Scheherazade does). Genres have stylistic traits and origins; that's what makes them genres.
That said, I agree with you that the genre is big enough for both traditional and new post-rock.
--- Quote from: Fleagle ---Wasn't Stereolab considered "post-rock"?
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Yeah :)
I love Stereolab, although I like to consider it electronica.
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