Slowdive are more on the shoegaze side, but you cant go far wrong with the album Souvlaki...

For post-rock try the new God Is An Astronaut album called All Is Violent, All Is Bright - best album i've heard this year. Also keep an ear out for a welsh band called The Voices who sound like a cross between Spacemen 3 and MBV - incredible new self titled album coming out on My Kung Fu in July...

Yes Slowdive is a very good choice... either Souvlaki or Just For a Day...
also if you liked Slint's Spiderland then you may want to listen to June of 44...
and the same goes for () if you liked Agaetis Byrjun

Well, its a funny one... I would put Schnauss in with the shoegaze stuff, but on the electronica side. Some people do, some people dont. He loves his shoegaze though and are huge nods to the likes of slowdive in his music... shoegaze with keyboards instead of guitars.

Mono's 'Floating Cloud and Deep Red Sky...'

Tracer AMC's last album is top dollar.

The Slowdive anthology.

Does anyone have a good catch-all description for what post-rock is? Or is just anything that sounds like Godspeed and Mogwai?

It's just people ask me a lot and i never really know what to say apart from: long songs, not much vocals, no verse-chrous-verse action, quiet-quiet-LOUD...

Or have i just asnswered my own question?

Try and download some tunes of EITS first album too, 'How Strange, Innocence' is what it's called, I think. You can't buy it anywhere, but it's my favourite of them all.

Ian, buy both EITS records? How could you forget "How Strange, Innocence"? ;-)

Heh yeah - that Dykehouse album is great, especially "burden of proof"... reminded me alot of chapterhouse too.

Also, Kitchens Of Distinction - Death Of Cool is a classic.

I wouldn't expect you to like Dykehouse mr B... i thought it was quite cheesy really, i didn't get on with it too well!

welsh post-rock? on kung-fu? not mma? intriguing

favourite album is probs 'loveless' or 'lift yr skinny fists'
why hasnt no one mentioned Dirty Three?


other smaller bands:
Asobi Seksu (download 'sooner')
God is an astronaut (mentioned here)
Amusement Parks on Fire

Very few of these are conventional 'post rock', if such a thing exists, but I'd recommend them all wholeheartedly to anyone interested in challenging but rewarding 'rock' music...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor- anything
Silver Mt.Zion- anything
Fly Pan Am- N'Ecoutez Pas
Can- Tago Mago
Grails- Redlights
Red Sparowes- At The Soundless Dawn
Hangedup- Kicker In Tow
Explosions In The Sky- The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place
Redjetson- New General Cataloge
Do Make Say Think- Winter Hymn, Secret Hymn, Country Hymn
Souvaris- I Felt Nothing At All
1 Mile North- Minor Shadows
1-Speed Bike- Droopy Butt Begone
Fridge- Happiness
Bardo Pond- Amanita
Jackie O-Motherfucker- The Magick Fire Music
Lightning Bolt- S/T
Sigur Ros- Ageatis Bryjun
Sigur Ros- ( )
Boris- Amplifier Worship
City of Caterpillar- S/T
Youthmovie Soundtrack Strategies- Hurrah, etc
Mogwai- EP+6
Epic45- Slides

I'd also (obviously) be delighted if people checked out my band- The Exploits of Elaine (www.theexploitsofelaine.co.uk).

Stick me in the "Ulrich Schnauss is shoegazing camp" too. Gorgeous, gorgeous music.

*their, John, their.

And I have the cheek to lecture people on their spelling and grammar.

Boris - Amplifier Worship
GY!BE - f# a# (infinity)
Slint - Spiderland
Beyond Black Void - Desolate
Isis - Oceanic
Jesu - Jesu
Diefenbach - Run, Trip, Fall
Sunn 0))) - Flight Of The Behemoth
Sunn 0))) - White 1
Hanged Up - Hanged Up
Grails - Redlight
Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn..
Black Ox Orkestar - Ver Tanzt?
Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team

caisersoze is right of course - ulrich is an electronica act. but he is so heavily influenced by shoegaze, and that comes out not only in his music but also in his live performances... in fact the first time i heard him DJ he was playing chapterhouse b-sides, curve, slowdive and even the belltower!