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ryanage

ASGARD, MOTHER FUCKER!
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November 18th, 2009 - 1:59 PM

let's talk about bands like explosions in the sky, mogwai, and godspeed you! black emperor here.

indiansummer

Back And To The Left
Joined: 10/02/09
Posts: 1739

November 18th, 2009 - 8:41 PM

Tarentel
Stars of the Lid
God is an Astronaut
The Six Parts Seven
MONO
Brian Eno's ambient albums
By The End of Tonight
Do Make Say Think
Pelican
Russian Circles

To me, post-rock is the perfect soundtrack for existentialism.

Starpunctures

ALBUQUERQUE/NM
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November 18th, 2009 - 8:53 PM

I'm listening to Rosetta right now.
<3 <3

ryanage

ASGARD, MOTHER FUCKER!
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November 18th, 2009 - 9:10 PM

i love you both.

wildcard13

ANN ARBOR/MI
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November 18th, 2009 - 9:19 PM

Starpunctures

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November 18th, 2009 - 9:30 PM

Isis too.

15StoryFall

BEDFORD/VA
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November 19th, 2009 - 12:07 AM

Everything posted already is great although for some reason I'm not a huge Explosions in the Sky fan (Mono have been my preferred act for awhile in that part of the spectrum)

Anyway, things I highly recommend-

Crippled Black Phoenix (Members of Mogwai and Electric Wizard mashed together, occasionally with Josh Homme)
Yndi Halda
Efterklang
Red Sparrowes (Same members as Isis)
Antennas To Heaven
Bark Psychosis
If These Trees Could Talk
Burn Rome In a Dream
Great Destroyer
World's End Girlfriend

I'll have to look through what I have and see what I've forgotten, I got through phases where I listen to absurd amounts of post-rock.

Konrad_Smith

CONCORD/CA
Joined: 10/18/09
Posts: 304

November 19th, 2009 - 12:17 AM

10:32
Slaraffenland
Decoder Ring
Icebreaker
Piano Magic
Caribou

Some of my faves that haven't been posted

slicknixon

RED LION/PA
Joined: 01/17/09
Posts: 1821

November 19th, 2009 - 12:31 AM

Trans-motherfucking-Am

and i've been getting into some Do Make Say Think as of late

indiansummer

Back And To The Left
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Posts: 1739

November 19th, 2009 - 12:43 AM

Forgot some:
FCS North
Isotope 217
EF
Unwed Saior

And two bands I can't believe I forgot:
Tortoise

and

Talk Talk, who are (arguably) kinda sorta the ground-zero for post-rock (or what would become it). It's strange to think that, without the ladder half of Talk Talk's recorded output, if even half the bands listed in this threat would even exist/sound the way they do.

Seriously, if you've never heard it., give Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden a listen. It's beautiful and amazing and truly breathtaking in certain parts.

DrSuesscide

RALEIGH/NC
Joined: 06/20/09
Posts: 1856

November 19th, 2009 - 1:07 AM

Every "post-rock" (whatever the fuck that means) album I listen to reminds me of Slint's Spiderland, in a bad ripped off kinda way. Slint is also one of the first bands, if not the first, to put out a true "post-rock" album.

Seriously everyone needs to check out Spiderland. It's so fucking good.

caranicole

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November 19th, 2009 - 3:55 AM

This thread.

This Will Destroy You is one of my favorite bands, ever ever.
Caspian
Signal Hill
Saxon Shore
The Six Parts Seven
The Album Leaf

And most recently.

indiansummer

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November 19th, 2009 - 12:53 PM

caranicole Said:

This Will Destroy You is one of my favorite bands, ever ever.

The Mighty Rio Grande + They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light + Burial on the Presidio Banks = 26 minus of pure bliss

indiansummer

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November 19th, 2009 - 12:54 PM

indiansummer Said:

minus

minutes*

caranicole

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November 19th, 2009 - 12:55 PM

indiansummer Said:

caranicole Said:

This Will Destroy You is one of my favorite bands, ever ever.

The Mighty Rio Grande + They Move on Tracks of Never-Ending Light + Burial on the Presidio Banks = 26 minus of pure bliss

Dude, GRandfather Clock and Threads. O;

Thetawave

COLUMBUS/OH
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November 19th, 2009 - 12:59 PM

indiansummer

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November 19th, 2009 - 1:03 PM

This is one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in my entire life.

And this is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard.

15StoryFall

BEDFORD/VA
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November 19th, 2009 - 1:59 PM

Not one of their instrumental tracks, but probably the one that made me fall in love with Crippled Black Phoenix. Not sure what's up with the three-second clip at the beginning of this, but whatever, the song rules hard

HellaBolt

Pleasantville
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November 19th, 2009 - 3:55 PM

indiansummer Said:

God is an Astronaut
Russian Circles

ryanage Said:

mogwai and godspeed you! black emperor

yes.

OctoBear

SPRINGFIELD/VA
Joined: 11/19/09
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November 19th, 2009 - 8:03 PM

Does anyone else find Tortoise to be somewhat kind of not very nice?

I love Mogwai, Mono, Explosions in the Sky, and Godspeed You Black Emperor!, but what Tortoise does, I cannot understand. Lots of tinny bells. They lack a melody like Mogwai often employ, or a nice drone like Mono use, and they aren't really didactic or avant garde like Godspeed. Just noise.

indiansummer

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November 21st, 2009 - 1:59 AM

Seeing Russian Circles on Monday. Stoked.

indiansummer

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November 24th, 2009 - 1:29 AM

Saw said Russian Circles show tonight - they brought it.

Morgue

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November 24th, 2009 - 2:02 PM

DrSuesscide Said:

Every "post-rock" (whatever the fuck that means) album I listen to reminds me of Slint's Spiderland, in a bad ripped off kinda way. Slint is also one of the first bands, if not the first, to put out a true "post-rock" album.

Seriously everyone needs to check out Spiderland. It's so fucking good.

This is the only thing mentioned in this thread that I am familiar with.

And, I have it on a 10". /brag

mjk1978

LAS VEGAS/NV
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Posts: 14

November 28th, 2009 - 1:29 AM

Might I recommend Tristeza?

destroyer

SAINT LOUIS/MO
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November 30th, 2009 - 1:19 PM

caspians "the four trees" and foxholes "push/pull" have been doing it for me. i've been listening to mogwais "government commissions" as well.. which is fucking flawless work. sparrows swarm and sing "o'shenandoah mighty death will find me" is such a great album, it really fills in the emptiness that godspeed left.
also... i love envy's old work, but goddamn "abyssal" and "insomniac doze" have been slaying me.
i feel like i am the only one who thinks that if these trees could talk is fucking garbage.

Micky_MC

Liverpool
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March 7th, 2010 - 4:18 PM

Omi

GARLAND/TX
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March 7th, 2010 - 4:36 PM

im a fan now

moar

Utopia
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March 7th, 2010 - 6:10 PM

y'all are horrible for not mentioning D.I.

ulises

CARLSBAD/CA
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March 7th, 2010 - 6:15 PM

mjk1978 Said:

Might I recommend Tristeza?

thumbs-up

moar

Utopia
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March 7th, 2010 - 6:15 PM

Mt. Zion's coming down in May.
Can't wait.

PhotosOfEarth

COHASSET/MA
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March 8th, 2010 - 5:24 AM

Lately:
Giants
Maybeshewill
Slow Six
Neil on Impression
Signal Hill
Mamiffer
Cloudkicker

ryanage

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March 8th, 2010 - 11:39 PM

destroyer Said:

caspians "the four trees"

they're playing like, a block away from my friend's house on sunday. pretty psyched to see 'em.

they're only florida date.

ryanage

ASGARD, MOTHER FUCKER!
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March 8th, 2010 - 11:39 PM

*their

cutcopydestroy

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March 8th, 2010 - 11:47 PM

set fire to flames

kaa

BOSTON/MA
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March 9th, 2010 - 1:08 AM

moar Said:

Mt. Zion's coming down in May.
Can't wait.

(13 May Cambridge MA US The Middle East Downstairs
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIITT TTTTTTTT)

drive_like_me

NORWALK/CT
Joined: 12/17/09
Posts: 246

March 11th, 2010 - 6:16 PM

GARY NUMAN //((;;))\\ and hmm tortoise and tristeza

drive_like_me

NORWALK/CT
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March 11th, 2010 - 6:17 PM

me too

Starpunctures Said:

I'm listening to Rosetta right now.
<3 <3

Cammyhaze

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March 11th, 2010 - 8:08 PM

Cammyhaze

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March 11th, 2010 - 8:09 PM

although I don't recommend stereolab mixed with marijuana, it's really more of a buzzed or sober minded piece for maximum enjoyment factor

tylersands

YPSILANTI/MI
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March 12th, 2010 - 12:45 AM

I just saw Tortoise last month and it was so nuts.

Have any of you listened to Charles Spearin's (of Do Make Say Think) The Happiness Project?

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tylersands

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March 12th, 2010 - 12:46 AM

whoops...

I'm very, very new here.

drive_like_me

NORWALK/CT
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Posts: 246

March 12th, 2010 - 2:10 AM

that guys the man

vireo

SAN JOSE/CA
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March 12th, 2010 - 11:50 AM

indiansummer Said:

Forgot some:

Talk Talk, who are (arguably) kinda sorta the ground-zero for post-rock (or what would become it). It's strange to think that, without the ladder half of Talk Talk's recorded output, if even half the bands listed in this threat would even exist/sound the way they do.

Seriously, if you've never heard it., give Talk Talk's Spirit of Eden a listen. It's beautiful and amazing and truly breathtaking in certain parts.

I second Talk Talk

Talk Talk's "Laughing Stock" is not only one of my favorite Post-rock albums, it's one of my favorite albums period.

PhotosOfEarth

COHASSET/MA
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March 17th, 2010 - 11:34 AM

dearbelovedfire

Kingston/Toronto
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March 17th, 2010 - 9:18 PM

I routinely listen to my copy of the Black Tar Prophecies Vol. I split with Grails and Red Sparowes.

ninjadj

PORTLAND/OR
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Posts: 9

March 18th, 2010 - 6:11 AM

As much as I love "post-rock", I'm starting to find it very samey and as a genre I think its hit a creative slump, where most bands are just bad clones of early Mogwai and The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place era Explosions in the Sky. And some of it is catchy riffs sure, but it feels clinical and forced, there's no real emotion in it: God Is An Astronaut and This Will Destroy You for example.

Still I love listening to Godspeed, Red Sparowes, Set Fire To Flames, Tortoise, ASMZ, Valley of the Giants, the more experimental side of things even into ISIS, Pelican, Earth and SunnO))), although they're more metal/drone than post rock. But meh, genres are pretty shit anyway.