Topic: Post-Rock (Read 12671 times)

mberan42 · « **on:** 10 May 2007, 08:43 »

I'm a big post-rock fan; can't get enough of it. But I want more. Here's a list of bands I regularly listen to:

The Album Leaf
Bell Orchestre
Do Make Say Thing
Explosions in the Sky
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Mogwai
The Notwist
Sigur Ros
Silver Mt. Zion
Tape

I'm pretty sure I have every album from all of those artists. Who am I missing? I want more, but I don't know who else plays this kind of music. Any recommendations?

(I've tried Sunn O))) and didn't like them, just fyi.)

Thrillho · « **Reply #1 on:** 10 May 2007, 08:48 »

Hope of the States.

fish across face · « **Reply #2 on:** 10 May 2007, 08:58 »

Here are the other threads on post-rock I've seen on here relatively recently for some tips...

http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php/topic,14599.0.html
http://forums.questionablecontent.net/index.php?topic=16013.0

To single one band out, people who seem to like this stuff have been giving Maserati props around the place.

Edit: Also, I don't know what The Notwist have to do with the other artists you mentioned, but the members have a whole lot of different projects. Try discogs.com I guess, I find that a useful first port of call for exploring links with not very rock stuff. Most recent thing I know of which has Markus Acher, their vocalist, singing is Dntel's new album 'Dumb Luck'. Also, there's a project called 13 & God who put out a self-titled album which features (I think) 3 members of the Notwist, including Markus on vocals on most tracks (sharing duties with some fairly wacky MCs). I don't like the album that much, but I've never been disappointed about having bought it and I think it's got 3 or 4 really great tracks.

Actually, re: Dntel, I think 'Life Is Full of Possibilities' and 'Dumb Luck' are both excellent albums and have heard some people call them post rock.

If you want to explore this kind of limp-wristed, no-balls rock meets electronics angle you could also try a compilation called 'Indietronica' from a few years back. It's pretty great. Or just look up the tracklisting on discogs and see if you can find stuff by some of the artists involved. Or maybe the Slowdive tribute album on Morr Music...

Will · « **Reply #3 on:** 10 May 2007, 12:48 »

Matt, do you listen to A Silver Mt. Zion at all? They're more lyric-oriented (especially in later albums) than GY!BE, but I think you would really enjoy them if you haven't already checked them out.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #4 on:** 10 May 2007, 12:56 »

END THIS THREAD!! There are already at least two post rock threads that have popped up in the last couple months. One should still be on the front page. Please, this is unneccessary.

rhinohelicopter · « **Reply #5 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 00:15 »

There was a post-rock band on G7 Welcoming Committee Records a couple years ago (until they broke up) called Clann Zu that I really dig. I don't really listen to much post-rock though.

Beren · « **Reply #6 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 00:42 »

Eluvium!

<3s Eluvium.

Also, there wasn't another thread on the front page.

Also, Eluvium.

Edit: More occurred to me after I posted.

Pelican. Some people like them, I'm lukewarm. Nice to try, though

And "If These Trees Could Talk". Released a self-titled album last year that I picked up who knows where. I like it, though.

RyanT · « **Reply #7 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 05:13 »

Russian Circles
Efterklang
Tristeza
Appleseed Cast's Low Level Owl record(s)
M83

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #8 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 11:29 »

Quote from: Beren on 05 Aug 2007, 00:42

Eluvium!

<3s Eluvium.

Also, there wasn't another thread on the front page.

Also, Eluvium.

Sir, I do like the way you think. A lot. Rumors of Eluvium albums coming to vinyl have been confirmed in case you were wondering. When, however, is still a mystery. And may I just say, in the nature of recommendations: TARENTEL
just listen to them. Trust me.

Ernest · « **Reply #9 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 12:45 »

Quote from: mberan42 on 10 May 2007, 08:43

Do Make Say Thing

LOL! WUT THING?

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #10 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 13:38 »

Check out Tortoise, or Can, or maybe even Slint's Spiderland album. People here love that album.

MlKE · « **Reply #11 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 16:15 »

i loooooooove post-rock.

The Evpatoria Report
Russian Circles & Dakota/Dakota (D/D was 2/3s of Russian Circles before RC existed)
Jeniferever
Mono
The American Dollar
Tuna Laguna
Red Sparowes
CtrlAltDelete
Giardini Di Miro
andydicktracymorganfreeman
Measured in Angles
Sah
The Ascent of Everest
God Is an Astronaut

i'll stop. but i could keep going for a while

*Sights* · « **Reply #12 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 21:17 »

El Ten Eleven.

One of their albums is already on the sendspace thread.

Get it.

Like, now.

Caspian · « **Reply #13 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 22:23 »

This may be a bit heavy for you, but I'd defintiely recommend you check out The Angelic Process, particularly their newest album. Imagine Sigur Ros put through a hundred distortion pedals and you're kind of close to The Angelic Process. Also, Caspian (No, I didn't name myself after them) are a pretty solid post rock band that trade 10 minute long songs for extra catchiness and general good times.

Finally, if you want to be a bit adventerous, give Nadja a shot. Something like MBV or Sigur ROs slowed way down with lots of extra fuzz.

I uploaded some Angelic Process and Nadja in the sendspace thread. Go an have a look, and download 'This Will Destroy You''s album "Young MOuntain", as it's also a really nice post rock album.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #14 on:** 05 Aug 2007, 22:37 »

Alamaailman Vasarat is a great Balkan influenced "post rock" band. They're pretty unique sounding so if you're tired of orchestral sounding guitars and driving crescendos, check these guys out.

The American Dollar are, I believe, a relatively new band but they are very good. Silent Ballet like their album a lot and I think it's excellent as well.

For really nice ambient "post rock" listen to Feel Good Lost by, surprisingly enough, Broken Social Scene. It's the first BSS album and it's nothing like the later ones. But it's great.

If Yndi Halda wasn't already mentioned, well, they have been now. They're awesome. They only have one actual album and it's not too long but it's really awesome. One of the better bands in the genre perhaps?

Detwiije are also cool.

Those are the first ones that come to my sleep deprived mind but their all good anyway.

(1000 posts it seems)

imapiratearg · « **Reply #15 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 07:38 »

The Six Parts Seven. A lot of their stuff has an Explosions in the Sky-ish feel.

Cexy · « **Reply #16 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 08:04 »

It's all about the British post-rock for me.

Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies
65daysofstatic
Redjetson
The Edmund Fitzgerald (their track 'Horses' is incredible)
Yndi Halda
Detwije (at least I *think* they're British... never been to one of their shows so can't be 100% sure)

...or maybe you like a bit of screamo topping with your post-rock pudding?

City of Caterpillar
Envy
Portrait
Kinski (no screaming, but they're pretty heavy)
Dawn Treader

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #17 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 09:41 »

I'm pretty sure all the bands I'd talk about have been mentioned, but I'll add a bit of a psychedelic/stoner/space vibe and recommend a few things that might be off the post-rock beaten path but might still appeal (in order of how much I expect post-rock fans to enjoy them) ...

Pharaoh Overlord
Bardo Pond
Yawning Man
35007
Circle
Growing
Acid Mothers Temple
Mammatus

It is likely that, if you enjoy any of the above artists, it will be for the same reasons you enjoy post-rock.

Cexy · « **Reply #18 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 12:29 »

Quote from: tommydski on 06 Aug 2007, 10:18

How about the band that started everything, Disco Inferno?

I'd not heard of them, but I am a bit of a Bark Psychosis fan so I'll check them out!

jeph · « **Reply #19 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 15:09 »

[img width= height=]http://www.questionablecontent.net/slint.png[/img]

MlKE · « **Reply #20 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 15:32 »

QC is the reason i have heard of de Slint.

Scandanavian War Machine · « **Reply #21 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 16:28 »

what the hell is "post-rock"? and who is this Slint i keep hearing about?

Ernest · « **Reply #22 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 17:04 »

Post-rock is German for "long, slow guitar music." And Slint is a band you should look up.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #23 on:** 06 Aug 2007, 23:38 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 06 Aug 2007, 09:41

Circle

Yes! Circle are immense. I feel your list is somewhat lacking in its exclusion of Guapo though. I can see post-rock fans getting down to Guapo's dense, swirling rhythms. And they have a big gong, and you can never go wrong with a gong.

amok · « **Reply #24 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 06:48 »

Quote from: fish across face on 10 May 2007, 08:58

the Slowdive tribute album on Morr Music...

Greatest compilation ever. I'm still working my way through albums by the artists thereon and none has disappointed me so far.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #25 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 07:03 »

Note to self: Guapo.

tacroy · « **Reply #26 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 07:05 »

I'm not a huge fan of the genre myself, but check out the Sendspace thread--it should be titled "The Post-rock Sendspace Thread." An exaggeration, maybe, but only a slight one.

Baggy · « **Reply #27 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 07:23 »

Does Deerhoof count as post rock? Cause I <3 Deerhoof.

P.S. I'm really bad at classifying bands to their respective rock genres.

Kai · « **Reply #28 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 07:53 »

Deerhoof are more CRACKA SHACKAULLLLLLA DUCK DUCK WOOF

imapiratearg · « **Reply #29 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 07:56 »

NINJA.

amok · « **Reply #30 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 08:06 »

Quote from: tacroy on 07 Aug 2007, 07:05

I'm not a huge fan of the genre myself, but check out the Sendspace thread--it should be titled "The Post-rock Sendspace Thread." An exaggeration, maybe, but only a slight one.

Or open the first page of the Sendspace thread and type 'post-rock' in the search bar top-left, thus weeding out the ~80% of uploads in there that aren't.

MlKE · « **Reply #31 on:** 07 Aug 2007, 09:06 »

Quote from: Scandanavian War Machine on 06 Aug 2007, 16:28

what the hell is "post-rock"? and who is this Slint i keep hearing about?

"post-rock" basically is any band who takes the typical rock instruments (drums, guitar, bass) and makes something not so typical out of it. rock music tends to be verse-chorus-verse-chorus-verse... but in post-rock you'll often hear 16 different bridges in between two parts of a song that I guess you could call a verse or a chorus, but it's different than it was the first time it was played.

Often times it has no vocals, some bands use undiscernable lyrics in moans or screams overtop their instruments. It is nearly always ambient, and a good percentage of post-rock bands create songs longer than 6 minutes.

and Slint were one of the first and greatest. that's why you hear of them a lot.

a pack of wolves · « **Reply #32 on:** 08 Aug 2007, 16:49 »

Quote from: onewheelwizzard on 07 Aug 2007, 07:03

Note to self: Guapo.

It's a good note. If you dig on all those bands I can't see any way you wouldn't get on down to Guapo. One of the best gigs I ever saw was Guapo, Circle, Ultralyd, Like A Kind of Matador and Birds of Delay all playing in front of the alter of a church. The sound was perfect and that combined with the visual experience was really intense.

Inlander · « **Reply #33 on:** 08 Aug 2007, 19:32 »

Quote from: MlKE on 07 Aug 2007, 09:06

"post-rock" basically is any band who takes the typical rock instruments (drums, guitar, bass) and makes something not so typical out of it.

Sir, your explanation disqualifies the Dirty Three. I am not impressed, sir.

Sorry guys, I held out for as long as I could. But 34 posts and not one mention? Come on, guys! Come on!

Cexy · « **Reply #34 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 03:01 »

Quote from: Inlander on 08 Aug 2007, 19:32

Sir, your explanation disqualifies the Dirty Three. I am not impressed, sir.

Sorry guys, I held out for as long as I could. But 34 posts and not one mention? Come on, guys! Come on!

Maybe Dirty Three aren't, in fact, post-rock? Think about it - there's very little about thier music that actually qualifies them as 'rock'. Even GYBE use guitars and occasionally rock out (with or without their cocks out).

Meh, I hate trying to pigeon-hole bands anyway. I think we should just have two genres - 'AWESOME' and 'BELINDA CARLISLE'. It would make life so much easier.

MusicScribbles · « **Reply #35 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 07:38 »

Quote from: Cexy on 09 Aug 2007, 03:01

Maybe Dirty Three aren't, in fact, post-rock?

These days, post-rock is a much looser genre than it was when certain music reviewers coined the term. Now it can be thrown in with certain ambient music, krautrock, space rock, jazz, and other musical genre combos. Some of the bands that are considered post-rock have electronica influences. Surely, Dirty Three is post-rock, since the genre mostly incorporates long instrumental tracks that use rhythms, chord progressions, melodies, and harmonies that normal rock doesn't. And after all, they still use the instruments that the genre of rock is known for, being guitar, and drums.

Inlander can argue his point further, being the Dirty Three guy.

Oh, and mberan, try out some Mono.

Inlander · « **Reply #36 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 08:21 »

Quote from: MusicScribbles on 09 Aug 2007, 07:38

Inlander can argue his point further, being the Dirty Three guy.

Ehh, it's creeping up to 1:30 in the morning, my argument at this stage mainly consists of of course they're post-rock, they've been doing it for fucking longer than just about anybody else!

Cexy · « **Reply #37 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 09:15 »

It's probably not worth you putting in the effort to argue, since I wasn't being particularly serious anyway. Arguing about whether X band falls under Y genre is one of the most retarded things that you can do on the internet. Genre labels are useful only insofar as they let people who are fans of bands with a certain sound find other bands with a similar sound.

MlKE · « **Reply #38 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 14:07 »

i agree completely.

i was once asked to define "alternative" because one of the radio stations around chicago advertises themselves as "Everything Alternative"

i had no idea how. because it isn't entirely rock, because there's hip hop and r&b that can be considered alternative. i've heard alternative country. alternative jazz... i have no idea what the word means. All I know is that I like it.

That's kinda how it is with indie, also. Indie used to have a meaning. independent bands. then it turned into this slightly garage sound, and then it's turned into what it is now, which is about 9485709485701984 different styles. including post-rock which also includes 298345071984 different styles.

but in a nut-shell, post-rock is exactly what I said it was. But since there's been some arguing about this Dirty Three band, that I've never listend to before, it has convinced me to listen.

pilsner · « **Reply #39 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 14:27 »

Check out a band out of Knoxville called Dixie Dirt. They opened for Amanda Palmer of all people. They have two LPs, one of which is reminiscent of EITS, the other which is closer to Maserati.

Also: Don Caballero.

MlKE · « **Reply #40 on:** 09 Aug 2007, 14:30 »

i'm actually really surprised don cab hadn't been mentioned until just now. I probably didn't mention them way earlier, because I assumed they were suggested in one of the first replies.

yeah, don cab owns.

Ernest · « **Reply #41 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 07:07 »

Quote from: tommydski on 09 Aug 2007, 15:25

What we learn from this is that everything is stupid.

pilsner · « **Reply #42 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 07:35 »

Can anyone recommend me some good post acid shoegaze trip rock?

2HourHiatus · « **Reply #43 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 08:13 »

I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned Laura yet. Really, really good Australian post-rock band and I especially suggest the album Radio Swan Is Down. In fact I do believe they mentioned in a QC newspost once.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #44 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 08:24 »

Quote from: pilsner on 10 Aug 2007, 07:35

Can anyone recommend me some good post acid shoegaze trip rock?

Good looks Tommy. Also, The Psychic Ills do some really great stuff that could be described that way, as do Bardo Pond and to a lesser extent Dead Meadow. All the bands I mentioned in my previous post are probably also on the same spectrum, if not precisely what you're looking for.

So was I supposed to take that question seriously?

pilsner · « **Reply #45 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 08:30 »

Nope, but your answers intrigue me and I may have to subscribe to your newsletter.

Lotus · « **Reply #46 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 11:11 »

Saxon Shore. They consistently remind me of The Album Leaf song for song and I can't help but want to listen to The Album Leaf when listening to Saxon Shore. I personally don't dig Saxon but you might if you give them a try.

Yayniall · « **Reply #47 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 15:37 »

The answer is magyar posse.
No, seriously, it is.

Inlander · « **Reply #48 on:** 10 Aug 2007, 21:48 »

Quote from: MlKE on 09 Aug 2007, 14:07

But since there's been some arguing about this Dirty Three band, that I've never listend to before, it has convinced me to listen.

Get any or all of the following albums:

Dirty Three; Horse Stories; Ocean Songs; Whatever You Love, You Are.

EDIT: also, Lowlands is really good, if you can find it.

onewheelwizzard · « **Reply #49 on:** 11 Aug 2007, 14:27 »

I just posted an album called "Hippie Killer" by Bongripper on the Sendspace thread. Download it.

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