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Post-rock is a form of experimental rock [3] characterized by a focus on exploring textures and timbres, as well as non- rock styles, with less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs. [4] Post-rock artists typically combine rock instrumentation with electronics. [5] [6] [3] The genre emerged within the indie and underground music ...
- Late 1980s and early 1990s, United Kingdom, Canada and United States
A history of post rock and its influences in image form : r/postrock. TOPICS. r/postrock. r/postrock. Post-rock: an umbrella term to describe the mostly instrumental music genre that uses rock instrumentation but disregards typical “rock” song structure. For post-rock music discussion, discovery, news, reviews, and your ...
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Jun 14, 2021 · Post-Rock Music Guide: History and Sounds of Post-Rock. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a number of indie rock bands moved beyond traditional blues-based guitar riffs and introduced a new subgenre known as post-rock.
- Bark Psychosis. Hex. (Circa, 1994) It seems fitting that our number one album should be Hex, the record which, as legend has it, was the first to be described as “post-rock”, in a review by journalist Simon Reynolds.
- Slint. Spiderland. (Touch And Go, 1991) Slint released the now-iconic Spiderland in 1991 while still a bunch of Kentucky nobodies. People couldn’t find out anything about them: by the time the album was released the band had split ways, meaning no interviews, and at a time where there was of course no internet for online sleuthing.
- Tortoise. Millions Now Living Will Never Die. (Thrill Jockey, 1996) With seven albums recorded over a 26-year career, Tortoise are practically establishment figures.
- Talk Talk. Laughing Stock. (Verve Records, 1991) Talk Talk spent the late ‘80s spending EMI’s money on the perverse dismantling of their glossy avant-pop formula, which had delivered them huge, and somewhat unlikely, commercial success earlier in the decade (who else on this list has written anything remotely as catchy as ‘It’s My Life’?).
rock. post-rock, genre of experimental rock music that combined elements of art rock, jazz, and alternative with electronic influences to create richly textured soundscapes. The term post-rock was coined in 1994 by music critic Simon Reynolds in his discussion of the music of Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis. Post-rock generally applied to bands ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Oct 24, 2019 · A Cathartic Journey: Taking A Trip Down The Road Of Post-Rock. In 1994, an English music journalist and critic by the name of Simon Reynolds tagged the term ‘post-rock’ in a review of the 1994 Bark Psychosis album Hex. Reynolds defined the term post-rock as “using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators ...
Apr 25, 2017 · At the end of the 90s, as the dominant musical styles started to break down, there was a feeling that post-rock was something that somehow made sense.” Dialects: a new breed of proggy post-rockers In Storm Static Sleep , his absorbing study of the rise and influence of post-rock, author Jack Chuter suggests that its jump-off point was Talk ...
