History Main / PostRock

* {{Sampling}} and SpokenWordInMusic: Perhaps due to the influence of Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor and Music/{{Swans}}, these are frequent characteristics of post-rock music, as well as music influenced by the genre. Music/{{Slint}} also did a lot of the latter trope.

* Music/{{Agalloch}} ([[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly Mixed with Folk, Black Metal, Ambient, and Doom Metal]])
* Music/{{Alcest}} (on some releases; also BlackMetal, {{Shoegaze}}, and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly, and the TropeCodifier for black metal/post-rock/shoegaze fusions)

* Music/{{Jesu}} (mixed with {{shoegaze}}, {{ambient}}, and [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly a wide variety of other genres]])

* Music/KayoDot (mixed with AvantGardeMetal and [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly too many other genres to list]])

* Music/{{Panopticon}} (mixed with BlackMetal, FolkMetal, {{Bluegrass}}, and [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly a large variety of other genres]])

* Music/{{Tool}} (post-metal among [[NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly many other genres]])

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Like many other genres, post-rock started out as an example of this trope, and it's still extremely common for bands in the genre to use it even now that the genre is itself an established style. Many of its subgenres such as post-metal (and, within post-metal, post-BlackMetal) also started out as examples of this trope.

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance''), the short-lived yet massively influential experimental group Music/ThisHeat, and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. Chamber rock bands such as Music/UniversZero and Music/{{Present}} are further candidates, given their lengthy compositions, usage of the BoleroEffect, and incorporation of instrumentation from classical and chamber music as core elements of their sound (see "La Faulx" from Univers Zero's 1979 album ''Heresie'' for a particularly good demonstration of all of these characteristics).

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance''), Music/ThisHeat (a short-lived experimental group considered massively influential) and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. Chamber rock bands such as Music/UniversZero and Music/{{Present}} are further candidates, given their lengthy compositions, usage of the BoleroEffect, and incorporation of instrumentation from classical and chamber music as core elements of their sound (see "La Faulx" from Univers Zero's 1979 album ''Heresie'' for a particularly good demonstration of all of these characteristics).

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance''), the experimental group Music/ThisHeat and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. Chamber rock bands such as Music/UniversZero and Music/{{Present}} are further candidates, given their lengthy compositions, usage of the BoleroEffect, and incorporation of instrumentation from classical and chamber music as core elements of their sound (see "La Faulx" from Univers Zero's 1979 album ''Heresie'' for a particularly good demonstration of all of these characteristics).

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance'') and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. Chamber rock bands such as Music/UniversZero and Music/{{Present}} are further candidates, given their lengthy compositions, usage of the BoleroEffect, and incorporation of instrumentation from classical and chamber music as core elements of their sound (see "La Faulx" from Univers Zero's 1979 album ''Heresie'' for a particularly good demonstration of all of these characteristics).

** 1977 - ''Music/{{Low}}''

Then, in the late 1990s and 2000s bands such as Music/{{Mogwai}}, Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor, and Music/ExplosionsInTheSky helped expand the genre even more. Around the same time, a number of SludgeMetal bands started picking up on the genre, resulting in "post-metal" or "atmospheric sludge". (Post-metal has actually been around since at least 1992, with Music/{{Neurosis}}'s [[TropeMaker trope-making effort]] ''Souls at Zero'', but experienced an explosion in popularity during the 2000s with releases like Music/{{Isis}}' ''Oceanic'' and ''Panopticon'' and Music/CultOfLuna's ''Salvation'' and ''Somewhere Along the Highway''). The genre has even been combined with BlackMetal, resulting in fusions like the works of Music/{{Alcest}} and Music/{{Deafheaven}} (whose 2013 effort ''Music/{{Sunbather}}'' became the most favourably reviewed album ''of any genre'' that year). Needless to say, the underground is now littered with PostRock bands.

* Music/{{Alcest}} (on some releases; also BlackMetal, {{Shoegaze}}, and NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly)

* Music/{{Deafheaven}} (also BlackMetal and {{Shoegaze}})

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance'') and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. Chamber rock bands such as Music/UniversZero and Music/{{Present}} are further candidates, given their lengthy compositions, usage of the BoleroEffect, and incorporation of instrumentation from classical and chamber music as core elements of their sound.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Like many other genres, post-rock started out as an example of this trope, and it's still extremely common for bands in the genre to use it even now that the genre is itself an established style. Many of its subgenres such as post-metal also started out as examples of this trope.

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd (particularly their 1981 album ''The Flowers of Romance'') and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. All sources seem to agree that the movement "officially" started either in 1991, when Music/{{Slint}} released their album ''Music/{{Spiderland}}'' and Music/TalkTalk released ''Music/LaughingStock'', or in 1988, when Talk Talk relased ''Spirit of Eden''. All three albums are considered classics and are extremely influential. The term "post-rock" itself is generally considered to have been introduced as a descriptor for music of this genre in a review of Bark Psychosis' 1994 album ''Hex'' by music journalist Simon Reynolds which appeared in ''Mojo'' in March of that year, although Reynolds claims to have used the term before that review. [[note]]He also did not invent it, although he thought he did at the time, but his use of the term does appear to have been the first time it was used to describe this particular genre of music.[[/note]] Reynolds [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011202075606/http://www.thewire.co.uk/out/1297_4.htm clarified]] the term in an article for ''The Wire'' published later that year, describing it as music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords."

** 1981 - ''Music/Deceit''

* Music/ThisHeat (considered alongside PiL to be an UrExample)

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd and Music/DavidBowie[='s=] 1977 album ''[[Music/LowDavidBowieAlbum Low]]''. All sources seem to agree that the movement "officially" started either in 1991, when Music/{{Slint}} released their album ''Music/{{Spiderland}}'' and Music/TalkTalk released ''Music/LaughingStock'', or in 1988, when Talk Talk relased ''Spirit of Eden''. All three albums are considered classics and are extremely influential. The term "post-rock" itself is generally considered to have been introduced as a descriptor for music of this genre in a review of Bark Psychosis' 1994 album ''Hex'' by music journalist Simon Reynolds which appeared in ''Mojo'' in March of that year, although Reynolds claims to have used the term before that review. [[note]]He also did not invent it, although he thought he did at the time, but his use of the term does appear to have been the first time it was used to describe this particular genre of music.[[/note]] Reynolds [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011202075606/http://www.thewire.co.uk/out/1297_4.htm clarified]] the term in an article for ''The Wire'' published later that year, describing it as music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords."

* Music/{{Jambinai}} (mixed with post-metal, PostPunk, and South Korean folk music)

PostRock has a very confusing history. Some people credit the Music/VelvetUnderground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which [[BoleroEffect started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax]]. Other sources give credit to the "{{Krautrock}}" movement of TheSixties and TheSeventies. Another possible UrExample is Music/KingCrimson's slowly unfolding song "Starless", which contains a lengthy, BoleroEffect-laden instrumental passage typical of the genre, while others point to the works of Music/PublicImageLtd. All sources seem to agree that the movement "officially" started either in 1991, when Music/{{Slint}} released their album ''Music/{{Spiderland}}'' and Music/TalkTalk released ''Music/LaughingStock'', or in 1988, when Talk Talk relased ''Spirit of Eden''. All three albums are considered classics and are extremely influential. The term "post-rock" itself is generally considered to have been introduced as a descriptor for music of this genre in a review of Bark Psychosis' 1994 album ''Hex'' by music journalist Simon Reynolds which appeared in ''Mojo'' in March of that year, although Reynolds claims to have used the term before that review. [[note]]He also did not invent it, although he thought he did at the time, but his use of the term does appear to have been the first time it was used to describe this particular genre of music.[[/note]] Reynolds [[http://web.archive.org/web/20011202075606/http://www.thewire.co.uk/out/1297_4.htm clarified]] the term in an article for ''The Wire'' published later that year, describing it as music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords."

** Music/SilverMtZion (side project sharing several members with GY!BE. Notorious for changing its name from release to release, though it's almost always some variation of "Silver Mt. Zion"; the one exception has been an EP where they were credited as "Thee Silver Mountain Reveries". Currently "Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra")

* Music/GodspeedYouBlackEmperor (generally considered the TropeCodifier for the genre as the whole)

** Music/SilverMtZion (side-project comprised of several members of GY!BE; notorious for [[IHaveManyNames changing its name from release to release]], though it's almost always some variation of "Silver Mt. Zion"; the one exception has been an EP where they were credited as "Thee Silver Mountain Reveries". Currently "Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra")

** [[Music/SilverMtZion Silver Mt. Zion]] (side-project comprised of several members of GY!BE; notorious for [[IHaveManyNames changing its name from release to release]], though it's almost always some variation of "Silver Mt. Zion"; the one exception has been an EP where they were credited as "Thee Silver Mountain Reveries". Currently "Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra")
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** Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra (side-project comprised of several members of GY!BE; notorious for [[IHaveManyNames changing its name from release to release]], though it's almost always some variation of "Silver Mt. Zion")