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KvP:

--- Quote from: Vuk on 11 Mar 2011, 12:57 ---I only really like The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place, but that new song is awesome.

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Same! 'cept for the "new song" part.

Takes me back to when I was first starting out on this board 'round... 2005 or so? And there seemed to be this general feeling like post-rock was this thing that was happening and exciting. I think it mainly had to do with the Skwm / Slint memes that were raging at the time. Anyway, I can't say with certainty what happened to that, but after listening to a lot of EitS and Do Make Say Think and This Will Destroy You, wasn't it always kind of obvious that the whole movement had a limited shelf-life? I mean while they had their own little distinctions (I can usually tell DMST from TWDY from EitS) the emotional / sound palette they were working from was inherently limited. So they had a good run of records and just kind of stagnated. I compare EitS to a band like AC/DC pretty easily - they have one song, but if you're into it, it's a good song.

TheFuriousWombat:
Man, DMST doesn't belong in that category at all. They sound completely different from EitS or TWDY (two bands that do belong in the same category). I never got why people reference DMST when talking about those bands. Is it because they have kinda long songs with lots of guitars and no words? The similarities between them and most bands that belong in the post-rock cannon are superficial at best, I'd say.

Apart from that, I kind of agree with you. The big names in post-rock were total gateway bands for me. I rarely listen to EitS these days, or TWDY, or September Malevolence, or...well the list goes on and on. I absolutely loved them for a long time but they've all become a bit too derivative and self-referential for me to truly enjoy these days. These bands all put on killer shows that I still go to every chance I get but listening to them on my stereo I can't help but feel I've played them out a bit. Not that I'm not looking forward to the new EitS album but I'm not buying that fancy vinyl package and, for me, that's saying something.

Scandanavian War Machine:
there has been alot of interesting things coming out of a sort of math-rock/post-rock synthesis thing that's been happening, and I'm really loving that particular sub-genre of it. Mountains for Clouds is one band that's straddling this genre-line, and they're pretty great.

ooh and then there's The Joint Chiefs of Math, who seemfully (the opposite of seemlessly) blend old school emo, math rock, shred (sort of), and post-rock. They're a duo (guitar/singing, and drums) and they have a really unique sound; I recommend checking them out. I think i might have posted them in the Thread That Shall Not Be Named a while back....might have been in the previous iteration, I can't remember.

KvP:
I wouldn't say that post-rock is necessarily dead, but for whatever reason, it seems like it's pretty easy to rock yourself into a corner. I think the neo-kosmische scene that's pretty big right now (Oneohtrix Point Never, Games etc) has the same problem, and will in all likelihood meet the same fate.

Last really good post-rock bands I heard were Radian and Legion of Two, probably because they were a bit louder and rougher and a lot less regal than the leading lights of the genre. But I haven't heard much from them in awhile.

Melodic:
I WILL ALWAYS PREFER
MY ROCK POST-'D.

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