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Good postrock bands?
Durin:
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--- Quote from: Durin on 29 Dec 2008, 00:57 ---Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven by Explosions in the Sky
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This is actually by Godspeed You! Black Emperor. I'm only correcting you because i made a similar mistake earlier in this thread :wink:
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Oops. Oh well I fixed my post. Stupid mistake but I think we'll all get over it.
Orcusmars:
I'll try my hand at distinguishing between Prog and Post rock.
Firstly, we must not forget that Post rock is strongly influenced by Progressive rock which, by necessity, makes Post rock and Prog rock share several musical elements.
However, to listen to both genres, one detects a distinct difference. While Progressive rock likes to play with conventional song structure, and draws much of its musical inspiration from jazz and freeform styles of music, Post rock seems to (by and large, I recognize that there are exceptions) take its melodic inspiration from later styles, like punk (and its offshoots), metal, and shoegazer. Progressive rock, while undoubtedly branching off from conventional rock, tends to use modest guitar tones, which put an emphasis on the clarity of the guitar sound. This is mostly because Prog focuses on complex, difficult styles of guitar playing, that are meant to be representative of the player's ability. Post rock does not necessarily use complex guitarwork - in fact, most bands of the genre use a riff structure, as opposed to the solo structure approach of Prog. Additionally, virtually all Post rock bands make heavy use of guitar effects, and stray to the emotive side of the scale (in effect, sacrificing complexity for emotional atmosphere).
Granted, these differences may seem semantic and picky, but the difference is quite obvious to anyone who devotes time listening to both genres.
Hope that helps.
David_Dovey:
Hey, you can download Sydney post-rock lovelies sleepmakeswaves' EP In Today Already Walks Tomorrow for free here or here.
n0tj3sus:
while the moaning about prog vs post rock has subsided im going to toss out a few names,
worlds end girlfriend
up dharma down
yndi halda
65daysofstatic
all pretty decent post-rock bands but I want to know what others think of them.
Wardial3r:
I think the bowed guitar makes the whale sounds. o0.
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