Fun Stuff => BAND => Topic started by: Ernest on 11 Dec 2006, 10:48
Title: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Ernest on 11 Dec 2006, 10:48
So, I've been getting into math rock, or at least math rock-influenced indie. As a drummer, this style of music greatly intrigues me. Here's some of the stuff I've been listening to lately:
My Disco Faraquet Medications Drive Like Jehu The Fall of Troy Bear vs. Shark Corm Clann Zu (of course, I've been pimping them all over the board) Baseball Canvas Solaris (you've probably never heard of them; they're a local band)
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Will on 11 Dec 2006, 20:16
You'll probably want to add Minus The Bear to that list. Don't know if they count as "math rock" or not, but These Arms Are Snakes are also pretty awesome.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: arcturus on 11 Dec 2006, 20:33
Math rock is not what i think is it???!!!! :-o
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Fiddler on 11 Dec 2006, 21:24
Minus the Bear should definitely be on that list, and if you havent heard of a band out of Chicago called Maps & Atlases you might want to check them out. They are absolutetly ridiculous when it comes to tapping.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: KharBevNor on 11 Dec 2006, 21:44
Kompressor - Adding Up Numbers
OH WAIT
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Chad K. on 11 Dec 2006, 22:35
Math rock is a pretty widely used term. Some of these bands will be more song structure oriented, and some are pretty much only for musicians into hearing other musicians do weird, albeit annoying, things with music. I will guarantee, however, that all of these bands employ compound rhythms, stop/start riffs, and odd-meter timing in their song writing. So here goes-
Shiner- Try "Lula Divinia". It's their masterpiece. "The Egg" is pretty damn amazing, too. Great, catchy songwriting that's the size of a steamroller.
Jawbox- "For Your Own Special Sweetheart". In a similar vein as Shiner, but poppier.
Burning Airlines- "Mission: Control!" Basically Jawbox, with a few members changed.
Ring, Cicada- "Good Morning, Mr. Good" From the jazz-rock school. I love these guys.
Table- "Table". Short lived Chicago band. Good luck finding this one. It's great though.
Dazzling Killmen- "Face of Collapse"- Noisy, jazzy, aggressive, stop/start stuff that's annoying and wonderful all at once.
Grand Ulena- Darin Gray from Dazzling Killmen's new band. These guys are just plain nuts. Their songs have a logic all their own. It sounds like chaos with sudden bursts of a song that comes together all at once. Not for the faint of heart. There's an amazing youtube video of these guys. Listen to the whole thing before you dismiss it.
Yowie- St. Louis folks in the vein of Grand Ulena. They use micrtonal tunings and also sound like controlled chaos. They lack the aggressiveness of a band like Grand Ulena, and sort of remind me of what it would sound like if circus clowns started a math-rock band.
Don Caballero- "American Don". Damon Che. 'Nuff said.
Seven Storey Mountain- "Dividing by Zero". Sort of in the Shiner, Jawbox vein.
The Casket Lottery- Past members of Coalesce go all emo with stop start songs and sudden timing and tempe changes.
31 knots- Defeintely in the jazz-rock vein. These guys are great.
Houston- Closest to Shiner, these guys write BIG riffs. They were a great live band.
Faraquet- "The View From This Tower". I know it's already been mentioned. I'm mentioning it twice, that's how good it is.
Hope that gets you started.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: CutMan on 11 Dec 2006, 22:37
Yay, now I get to learn more about one of the oddest ideas ever for a superficial genre!
You'll probably want to add Minus The Bear to that list.
Yeah I forgot them. I've been listening to them a little bit.
I should just say that I'm interested in stuff with time signature switches or just plain unorthodox time sigs. I'm trying to improve my drumming abilities.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Ernest on 12 Dec 2006, 01:54
Mathcore?
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Will on 12 Dec 2006, 02:15
Well, if you don't mind music with screaming in it, Botch had some pretty interesting ideas too...which then translated into the two other bands I mentioned earlier, as they are both featuring former members of Botch.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: greenMonkey on 12 Dec 2006, 02:49
Don Caballero- "American Don". Damon Che. 'Nuff said.
Just wanted to point out that while Damon Che does kick ass, Don Cab sucks now that he is the only remaining original member. And I think the best albums are the earlier ones (Don Caballero 2 and What Burns Never Returns).
Also, Shellac.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Chad K. on 12 Dec 2006, 03:03
I haven't heard the new Don Cab incarnation, but I've gotten similar reports that's it's sub-par.
I love Shellac. Also all the Shellac-esque bands like the Jesus Lizard, the aforementioned Dazzling Killmen, Rapeman, Slint, and Big Black. Basically anyone who uses a Travis Bean to get that "metal on metal" Albini tone combined with a singer who rants unintelligibly. It sounds awful on paper, but damn fine on a record.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: alexalexalex on 12 Dec 2006, 03:34
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Der Golem on 12 Dec 2006, 05:09
If you don't mind mathcore, then I'm reccomending Daughters.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Will on 12 Dec 2006, 08:38
I don't quite understand how daughters is mathcore?
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Post by: AlexAttack on 12 Dec 2006, 08:52
someone was trying to tell me that math core was like dillinger escape plan but according to these lists i don't know whether or not they would fit.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: AnonymousNoob on 26 Jan 2009, 17:48
ZAZEN BOYS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlvwVu9efq4) ZAZEN BOYS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-ZjYq8-SHw)
^ Fill your ears.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Scandanavian War Machine on 26 Jan 2009, 18:00
yeah, this thread is only . . . over 2 years old.
no big deal.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: AnonymousNoob on 26 Jan 2009, 18:17
Re: Give me some math rock please « Reply #16 on: December 12, 2006, 11:52:39 AM » Reply with quote
Thanks for bumping it even higher!
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: Inlander on 26 Jan 2009, 18:35
I don't understand. You bumped a two-year-old thread, which is hey, whatever, no biggy really - but you did it when there's a thread on exactly the same topic that's still current and is on the very first page of this sub-forum.
Title: Re: Give me some math rock please
Post by: AnonymousNoob on 26 Jan 2009, 18:52
Oh, shit.
My bad guys.
But seriously, why the hell was this thread on the first page anyway?
Confused this for the other thread, which I was reading. Must have closed said tab or something, scanned for "math rock" and ended up here.