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Post-rock is a music genre characterized by the exploration of textures and timbres as well as non-rock styles, sometimes placing less emphasis on conventional song structures or riffs than on atmosphere, for musically evocative purposes.
Jun 14, 2021 · 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.
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor – F # A # ¥ (1997) The Canadian collective’s debut long-player – pronounced “F Sharp, A Sharp, Infinity” – is an eminently quotable treatise on taking rock music elsewhere, anywhere, but where it’s allowed to feel comfortable.
- Rachel’s – Selenography (1999) Kentucky’s Rachel’s saw their final album, 2003’s Systems/Layers, mined for cinematic use, most prominently in the Will Smith movie Hancock.
- 65daysofstatic – We Were Exploding Anyway (2010) Sheffield foursome 65daysofstatic have been mixing dance beats with intense riffs and devastating live drums since day one.
- Mogwai – Young Team (1997) A debut album every bit as exhilarating as Godspeed’s, albeit charged with a more pronounced positivity and optimism that may be a product of the musicians’ age at the time – ostensible frontman Stuart Braithwaite was 21 at release – Young Team ripples with inspiration that surpasses its on-sleeve influences.
- Slint – “Don, Aman” (from Spiderland) 1991. I generally chose to leave the proto-post-rock bands off this list because including them would mean we’d have to stretch it back another ten years and fifty tracks, but leaving Slint off would be like not inviting Dave Mustaine to the Metallica alumni party.
- Tortoise – “Djed” (from Millions Now Living Will Never Die) 1996. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this song from Millions Now Living Will Never Die changed my life.
- Mogwai – “Helicon 1″ (from Ten Rapid) 1997. I’ve been listening to “Helicon 1″ at least once a month (and in bad months, many times more) for two decades.
- Dianogah – “What Is Your Landmass” (from As Seen From Above) 1997. Just four songs into this thing and we’ve already got another one produced by Steve Albini, from Chicago trio Dianogah’s debut As Seen From Above.
- Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die (1996) Much like Battles, the various members of Tortoise were no strangers to the indie rock community.
- Slint, Spiderland (1991) Yet another template setting piece of art that hundreds, if not thousands, of skinny young men have been trying to reckon with since its release in 1991.
- Battles, Mirrored (2007) No one ever floated the idea of calling Battles a supergroup even though its members have an amazing collective legacy: Tyondai Braxton was the son of jazz legend Anthony Braxton, Ian Williams logged time in Don Caballero and Storm & Stress, John Stanier was the drummer for Helmet and Tomahawk, and Dave Konopka was in math rock group Lynx.
- Mogwai, Young Team (1997) The world was obviously hungry for a group capable of such massive yet smooth dynamic shifts when Mogwai came around in the late ‘90s as the Scottish gents made an immediate dent in the indie charts on both sides of the Atlantic.
Post-rock was the dominant form of experimental rock during the '90s, a loose movement that drew from greatly varied influences and nearly always combined standard rock instrumentation with electronics.
Aug 27, 2015 · Some of the best post rock music on the planet. Read more: http://theculturemag.com/music/best-post-rock-bands/00:00 - Explosions in the sky - first breath a...
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