The vast majority of post rock bores me silly... from where I sit most current post rock bands can be divided into two sub-genres. 65daysofstatic and bands who wish they were as good as 65daysofstatic. Even the mighty Mogwai have been boring me lately... Am i missing out on anything wonderful or is my apathy justified? Do you have any suggestions for anything to reignite my interest?
65dos are shite,
so i probably can't help you.
after lift your fists...
the genre should have just given up
I saw
Yndi Halda a few weeks ago at the Barfly, and they were perhaps along the lines of post rock. Give them a listen.
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This Is Your Captain Speaking
Try Grails
http://www.sfweekly.com/issues/2004-04-28/music/music_print.html
www.myspace.com/grailsongs
Grails are fucking amazing.
Grails do sound pretty ace...
I might look into them a bit further.
post rock could be awesome
but every fucker these days seems to stick to the EXACT same song structure with manditory meandering 'dreamy' part followed by the exact same build up and then the ever predictable moment when a guitarist steps on the distortion pedal and they rock out with a "dramatic" climax
yes we know godspeed albums are good no need to form another fucking tribute band get yr own damn ideas
correction
some post rock is awesome
but most of it is more generic than even the most dogmatic of 80s hardcore bands.
There are good and bad artists in every kind of music.
Sometimes you just need to look harder.
True true
I do enjoy "post rock", and i recognise there must be good artists out there, i just lose patience with all the bands making their very own young team...
This ^ is very true
Check out By The End Of Tonight, Lift To Experience, Russian Circles and Mandlebrot Set. All very different and not strictly post-rock, but then again it's a useless term these days.
what is Post Rock now ?
I don't know anymore...
I'm serious : so many different bands have been getting that tag...
Would Battle of Mice classify as post rock?
If they do, you should check them out. If they don't you should check them out anyways.
i don't really like
65 days. it feels a bit calculated. i like do make say think.
I'm a huge post rock fan
and have been since the mid 90's when the scene was first developed. I have a big collection of a variety of stuff. I have never really understood this so called idea about the music:
"manditory meandering 'dreamy' part followed by the exact same build up and then the ever predictable moment when a guitarist steps on the distortion pedal and they rock out with a "dramatic" climax"
If anything I find this a very ignorant view point on the subject. The bands I listen to aren't that similar at all. I can only conclude that people who say this don't know what their talking about.
I like the way
most non-post rock bands stray away from the generic dreamy bit/build up/climax formula by having an intro, a verse, a chorus, a verse, a chorus, and for those extremists a break or interlude and possibly even a rewrite of the initial verse.
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Sigur Ros are pretty damn good.
Explosions in the Sky (at their best) are good.
65DOS are (again, at their best) also quite good.
Mogwai are usually boring but can be entertaining.
Check out Flies Are Spies From Hell. They're on myspace.
Every week
there's some bloody thread about how "post rock is shit". It's purely tiresome. There's loads of good post rock out there, but if you don't like it, son't moan about it.
You don't see 100 people starting ""r'n'b is shit" threads all the cocking time do you?
isn't post rock...
... defined as rock 'n' roll instruments used for non-rock 'n' roll purposes? at least that's what the guy who coined it thought, i think he wrote for the wire in the 80s. but it led to bands like stereolab being called post rock, and a lot of the avant-punk devo stuff as well.
it's weird how post rock today pretty much means mostly instrumental long songs with build-ups and some plinky guitars in their top register.
Just to clarify...
I have, over the past few years, really enjoyed a lot of post rock. I've just recently become a bit disillusioned with it and was looking for suggestions of bands to perk up my interest. And everyones been pretty damn helpfull with that.. thanks!
in addition to some of the above
i heart:
upcdowncleftcrightcabc+start - criminally under-rated.
Red Sparrowes
Pelican
all of those are pretty brutal when they want to be...
There are loads of brillaint post rocks bands
Isis
Red Sparrows
Chosen Darkness
iLiKETRAiNS
65 Days
Explosions
eoe
Godspeed...
I'm not that much of a fan of Moqwai though.
Gregor Samsa
Beautiful.
Lyle will agree.
Indeed !
Absolutely great.
But are they really post rock ?
do make say think?
cats and cats and cats?
yndi halda?
you may already have heard of/hate all of the above, but i like them.
i agree with do make say think
particularly the song 'ontario plates'
that's my absolute favourite.
my absolute favourite
is fredericia. yay4dmst.
:o
i don't even have that song. i'll have to search it out!
yay indeed.
IT'S AWESOME.
Stuff that you could probably consider post rock
but isn't very much like Mogwai:
The Dead C
Tsurubami
The newest Earth album 'Hex'
Phantomsmasher
Check it. Brap.
JUST GIMME INDIE ROCK!
Get it yourself.
Lazy.
apparently...
... the band i'm in are post rock. haven't a notion what it is exactly - seems to be everything from 60's stoner rock to instrumental rock to stuff like pumpkins during their more epic times (soma etc..). but i don't care, i like the music my band makes and thats all i give a shit about.
most post rock is terribly dull
however, when a band puts a bit of thought into it, the results can be electrifying, as is the case with many of the bands listed above. i'm listening to the russian circles album at the moment, and it's pretty good.
I hate it when people spell Red Sparowes incorrectly.
I don't understand why you do not like Einstellung
Download these compilations
http://thesilentballet.com/dnn/Compilations/tabid/53/Default.aspx
volume 1 is good.
Now you shall see PROPER post rock
Kinski > Explosions
Post-rock is a difficult one as genres that take themselves so seriously are inherently silly. The more stoney-faced and pseudo-classical your post-rock band is, the more ridiculous and boring it all becomes. I love elements of the genre, but lost patience with EITS a while ago. A band like Kinski are better because they remember that brevity is the soul of wit.
One of the better UK post-rock bands is What The Moon Is Like. They're playing a show for my made-up label on the 13th January... here:
http://www.redheadedstepchild.co.uk
What?
Its so stupid to compare a band like Kinski and Eits.
No
it's not.
these are MINT
www.myspace.com/codauk
gah
I hate Kinski.
(the band, not Klaus)
...
there's an awesome post-rock track by a band called The Big Sleep on the Dirty Zine "pedestrain 02" compilation (which is very, very good). i haven't got around to listening to anything else by them but it might be worth investigating....
Why not
elaborate?
Why do you not like Kinski? How do they make you feel? What did you have for breakfast?