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Post Rock's Future - instrumental music
Gardenparty
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I've noticed a good amount of threads about instrumental bands over the past few months. Usually it is Explosions in the Sky, which is a sign that they are getting bigger by the day. However, these threads usually get on to people mentioning different instrumental bands and dying a quick death.
How do people feel about "post rock"? do you think it has a future of growing for a larger audience? There is such a great group of up and coming bands in the scene (US and internationally).
You look at the fathers of the genre like My Bloody Valentine, Slint, Mogwai, Godspeed, Sigur Ros etc, then the next wave EITS, Do Make Say Think, Mono, Tortoise and then the new school such as Caspian, This Will Destroy You, Russian Circles, Red Sparrows, 65 Days of Static and sooo many more just really cool unique bands.
Anybody have any thought on the future of the genre? As well, if you don't like it let me know your thoughts as well.
I'm very interested in peoples opinions.
thanks
How do people feel about "post rock"? do you think it has a future of growing for a larger audience? There is such a great group of up and coming bands in the scene (US and internationally).
You look at the fathers of the genre like My Bloody Valentine, Slint, Mogwai, Godspeed, Sigur Ros etc, then the next wave EITS, Do Make Say Think, Mono, Tortoise and then the new school such as Caspian, This Will Destroy You, Russian Circles, Red Sparrows, 65 Days of Static and sooo many more just really cool unique bands.
Anybody have any thought on the future of the genre? As well, if you don't like it let me know your thoughts as well.
I'm very interested in peoples opinions.
thanks
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See These Bones
http://www.tchoupchup.com
myspace.com/tchoupchupacabra
Is that your band?;)
will check it out
itsevo baby, i agree with you. A lot of it is very involved listening and requires a bit more than some people want to give. Some just find it dull without lyrics and others find it repetitive, whihc is understandable. However, lI find it to be really engaging. I'll throw on a Mono record from time to time and just do my own thinking as opposed to latching on to the singers.
Also, like your sig states "it's evolution". A lot of the newer bands are learning just as much what not to do as what to do from the forbearers.
You're hearing a lot more songs in the 3-6 minute range that are just as engaging.
I'm a huge fan of all the bands mentioned in the initial post......if you haven't already you should check out Set Fire To Flames (a gsybe side-project) - their album Sings Reign Rebuilder is pretty incredible
and they all eat rainbows and pooh butterflies!
See These Bones
Do you guys go out and actively search for new instrumental bands to listen to or just work on reccomendations?
I like to check out the Silent Ballet and After the post rock to see what people are saying. Then i'll hit up a myspace or a homepage and see if I dig it. I can usually tell pretty quickly, which is a good and a bad thing. I may be passing up some artists that could really grow on me. But again with the amount of bands it's tough to check it all out. Plus, there are some pretty atrocious bands out there, just like any genre.
Don't take this as an attack or anything, but your history is a little fuzzy here. Tortoise shouldn't be classified as part of the "next wave" considering they've been together for almost eighteen years and released their first record in 1994. Do Make Say Think, either, for that matter.
Anyway, "post-rock" is some of my favorite music. I tend to like the heavy hitters best (there's a reason they're the most well-known), but I also like exploring the wide range of other groups out there. Although I can't seem to get too much out of a lot of the newer bands, there are some who I think have serious potential to mark themselves as important as the big guys some time in the future.
Yndi Halda, Always the Runner, Bell Orchestre, Hangedup, and Sickoakes are just a few of the relatively new bands that get stuck under the "post-rock" umbrella that I think are really good and manage to distinguish themselves from everyone else. Also, I have to agree with Gardenparty, the Silent Ballet is a good resource for looking for new stuff, especially through their comilation series.
Yeah, you're right on Tortoise. DMST, i don't think was even near the radar until they released Enemy Airship in '00, and as far as influence I don't put them anywhere near the first tier. I put Sigur Ros in the first one more because of their impact and acclaim then when they started releasing music.
But, as long as you got the basic jist that's all that matters. Nice work on the Sickoakes as well. them's are some tasty jamz
To be honest, 'post rock' bands didn't invent any new genre. It's just ambient, contemorary progressive rock IMO. It's nothing which hasn't been done before; it is very pleasant, however, even beautiful, and that's why I listen to it. To my mind, it's rock music with an ear towards classical and orchestral music, with different movements and moods. Post rock bands write pieces of music rather than 'songs' in a traditional sense, but even this isn't new. People have been making beautiful, atmospheric pieces of music for centuries. This is just some of it.
Post rock will not die because it never really started.
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
i kinda feel the same way. i enjoy sigur ros and explosions in the sky, but that's about where it stops for me. i don't have the subtle ear to handle much more. even sigur ros songs tend to blur together to me eventually.
Interesting you mention the 'subtle ear' - that's true, some can listen to Sigur Ros for hours and get something new from it every time. Other people hear a song and they either like it or they don't; they won't faff around, which is fair enough. I have a friend like that and he wouldn't force himself to listen to a Sigur Ros album. I like Godspeed as well; they seem to be darker than Sigur Ros and maybe slightly more filmic (maybe I'm just saying that because they were used in 28 Days Later, but still...).
- the great Sir Leo Harrison
1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor are (were... hiatus) the best band in the world
2. Explosions in the Sky's music is pretty, although bland and tedious after a while. They haven't done anything that Mogwai didn't do first and better.
3. Tortoise are the most overlooked band of the 'genre'
4. A Silver Mt Zion are like Arcade Fire if the Arcade Fire were better
5. Sigur Ros' music is almost impossibly beautiful
6. All of the lesser known bands on Constellation Records (DMST, Set Fire to Flames, Hrsta, Fly Pan Am) are worth listening to.
7. Lift Yr Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven is the best post-rock (and all-time in my opinion) album. No other post-rock album comes close.
8. The 'genre' itself doesn't really exist. The only reason the Constellation records bands sound similar is that they are inbred. EITS sound NOTHING like GY!BE and certainly Slint sound nothing like either.
9. The 'genre' is, in general, stagnating. There are too many Mogwai clones and not enough bands doing anything different. Most of the music is, however, great to listen to in small doses.
If you want one song to check out by the Album Leaf... listen to "Over the Pond"... it's sooo good.