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Japanese Post-Rock
TheFuriousWombat:
I don't know anyone who uses the term to be descriptive per se. The reason I brought it up was that most people I know at this point, when referring to post-rock, are referring to bands that sound more or less like EitS, for example. When someone asks for post-rock recommendations, this is the sound I tend to assume they're referring to so I think it's important to point out that a musician like WEG, while possibly post-rock in the original sense of the word, does not sound like the post-rock they're probably thinking of since that sound has by now become the standard one attached to that word. Of course, we'd all be better off if no one used 'post-rock' anymore but I doubt that'll happen.
sean:
okay this is the way i see it.
reverb and tremolo picking and long boring slow songs are post rock.
lite is straight up math rock no doubt.
also i dunno what yr on russian circles is plenty spacy.
Chad K.:
--- Quote from: sean on 13 Jan 2010, 12:18 ---okay this is the way i see it.
reverb and tremolo picking and long boring slow songs are post rock.
lite is straight up math rock no doubt.
also i dunno what yr on russian circles is plenty spacy.
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The point is, that's the way you see the label properly applied, whereas someone else may not. For instance- do Russian Circles play long, boring, slow songs? I'll give you that the songs are long, and have some slower parts, but its not boring and rarely is a song slow throughout. Part of their dynamics revolves around the interplay between faster and slower parts. And, not all "post rock" bands use tremolo picking (Mogwai for example). Again, I think the label isn't very useful. It would be better to say "recommend bands that sound similar to Explosions in the Sky," etc. Then we would be talking about music instead of debating semantics.
sean:
man when was the last time you listened to mogwai (they do tremolo pick trust me)
this is the silliest conversation
David_Dovey:
I'd say Russian-Circles is post-metal? Cos uh, they're metal, with sludge+hardcore influences as well as the whole instrumental+atmospheric thing. Basically any bands that have pretty strong links back to Isis and/or Neurosis=post-metal
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