Post-rock

First wave, second wave, third wave, everything is welcome.

My first band share:

Very Ennio Morricone (composed soundtrack for The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly).

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

I like Stereolab.

And Jaga Jazzist's What We Must was the closest they've come to doing straight post-rock. Good stuff.

I didn't write any of that.

I like post-rock.

Love it. Mostly in its modern, somewhat overpopulated incarnation, stuff like Sigur Ros, EITS, This Will Destroy You, Mono, We, Totorro, Saur etc.

Tycho are a cool band I've gotten into recently.

edited 31st May '12 2:59:34 AM by AsTheAnointed

Because I choose to.

A great number of bands that I like are either explicitly in this category or could easily land under this header. On the less well-known side of things, I would specifically like to highlight to Portland-based collective Jackie-O Motherfucker, who are a bit less confrontational than their name might suggest.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Personally I have love for the following;

• Godspeed You Black Emperor
• Stars Of The Lid
• God is an Astronaut
• Barn Owl

but Post-rock in general is good for when one needs to chill da fuggout.

the cat got skinned again!

Listened to All is Violent, All is Bright by God Is An Astronaut yesterday. Now I wish more bands did post-rock like that.

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

I wish Zudak and Saeglopur were here...

*saudade*

edited 17th Jun '12 10:28:26 AM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

What is the genre name even supposed to mean?

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.

It's rock for postal workers. *ba-dum-tish*

Seriously though, it stems from a review by Simon Reynolds in Mojo magazine. He wasn't the first person to use the term post-rock, but his definition—"using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes"—was the one that stuck.

I didn't write any of that.

Ha.

Ah, gotcha. Makes sense to me. I probably have music like that, though I can't think of any at the moment aside from an album I have by This Will Destroy You.

Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.

Simon Reynolds is probably one of my favourite music journalists at this point in time. Sure, he's preachy and kind of pretentious, but he's also really passionate and informed...

I'm going to stop gushing now. But seriously, Simon Reynolds is awesome.

Buy/download/listen to these:

• Band Of Susans, Here Comes Success
• Bark Psychosis, Hex
• Bitch Magnet, Ben-Hur
• Boredoms, Vision Creation Newsun
• Bügsküll, Snakland
• Explosions In The Sky, How Strange, Innocence
• Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven
• Jackie-O Motherfucker, Fig. 5
• Mogwai, Young Team
• Mono, Under the Pipal Tree
• Sigur Rós, Ágætis byrjun
• Slint, Spiderland
• Stereolab, Transient Random-Noise Bursts with Announcements
• Swans, Soundtracks for the Blind
• Tortoise, Millions Now Living Will Never Die
• Talk Talk, Laughing Stalk

Very few of these albums sound anything alike, yet they can all tell you something about what post-rock is, or rather what it should be. (If I were being really loose I'd toss on discs by Bardo Pond, Khanate, Shining and This Heat, but yeah... I can't have everything I want.)

edited 17th Jun '12 3:48:27 PM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Because I choose to.

They were really fun to have around the forum.

We're basically the last, aren't we...?

edited 17th Jun '12 3:52:00 PM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

I don't know what exactly we're the last of, but I guess we are. Sunshine Werewolf is gone too, which sucks since he had nearly the exact same taste in music as me, just expressed differently.

Now I have to go back to fraternizing with the metalheads and having the living shit mocked out of my untr00 preferences

Because I choose to.

The old guard.

Sunshine Werewolf made a brief appearance in the Heaper's Hangout about a month ago... then left two days before I joined. I was sad. We were buds.

edited 17th Jun '12 4:25:13 PM by JHM

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

The Norwegian jazz-ish band fronted by Jørgen Munkeby, or the Swedish metal band?

I didn't write any of that.

The Norwegian jazz-whatever outfit. To be honest, a lot of their recent material meets the requirements of Reynolds' original definition of the concept a lot better than some of the bands tossed under the banner these days.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

Yeah, I'm listening to Blackjazz right now and I can hear that.

Someone recommended I listen to them because of their connection to Jaga Jazzist a few months ago; seeing them mentioned here was enough to make me actually do it.

I didn't write any of that.

Let's talk about fucking Swans.

Fuck The Seer is good. I like it more than Soundtracks for the Blind (which I heard after, funny enough).

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

The Seer is phenomenal, but I wouldn't say that it trumps Soundtracks for the Blind. While definitely a more focused record with no shortage of instantly memorable, immaculately crafted songs/compositions/hell-rides, The Seer lacks a lot of the trippy soft-focus production effects, bizarre found sounds and quirky genre shifts that made Soundtracks such a fascinating experience. Also, the chorus vocals on "Lunacy" only really click for me at the end... at which point they are utterly terrifying.

That being said, "93 Ave. B Blues" and "A Piece of the Sky" more than deliver on the sound collage elements otherwise absent on the album, and "The Apostate" is completely, rabidly, deliciously insane on every level in a way that the group hasn't been since "Blind Love", so I'm more than happy. Having caught them on their first reformed show, I am totally stoked for their upcoming Philly performance. It will be something.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

I disagree. I found a lot of the found sounds and slower songs on Soundtracks for the Blind to be a little dull, while The Seer is like Yanqui U.X.O.: it ditches the smaller sections of songs that endear some people to the previous albums and jsut plays relentless glaciers of noisy repetition.

edited 4th Sep '12 6:40:55 AM by Erock

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.

I will agree that songs like "Empathy" and "The Final Sacrifice" do drag a bit, but the appeal of Soundtracks, for me at least, lies in its variety. While The Seer has songs to rival "Helpless Child" and "Animus", it has no answer to "I Was A Prisoner In Your Skull" or "Volcano". Which is certainly not to say that I think Gira has abandoned this facet of Swans—Look At Me Go is more than enough to say otherwise—but that I think that he could have flexed those muscles harder.

Of course, the album is still godly, and it does what it sets out to do with impressive efficiency despite its length, so I can't really fault it. I just don't think that it's better than Soundtracks.

I'll hide your name inside a word and paint your eyes with false perception.

[POST IMPLORING EVERYONE TO LISTEN TO SOME TOKEN POST-ROCK BAND I'VE LISTENED TO RECENTLY]

[POST CLAIMING THOSE BANDS AREN'T EVEN THAT OBSCURE]

edited 8th Sep '12 12:00:41 PM by Erock

If you don't like a single Frank Ocean song, you have no soul.