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The Album Leaf, Mogwai, etc.
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| kush paintings |
Hey I was wondering if anyone else is a fan of The Album Leaf or Mogwai. I've heard this type of music be called post-rock before, I was wondering if anyone had a better category description they felt these two fall under.
I was also wondering if anyone knows of similar sounding tracks to the following...
Mogwai- I Know What You Are, What Am I?
Sia- Breathe Me
Mum- We Have a Mape of the Piano
The Album Leaf- The Audio Pool
The Postal Service- This Place is a Prison
Boards of Canada- Music is Math |
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| PlasticSoul |
Mogwai'?
Are u talking about moguai or moogwai'? i like moogwai - viola, labrynth part 2...
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About moguai i ve to talk your mixing skills are good with breaks. |
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| Shook1 |
Mogwai rulezzz!~
Although I havent got much info on them or similar bands......surely, I would like to know too!;) |
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| shoegazer |
| Sigur Rós [My fav :D] is a lot like Múm. Also check out Explosions in the Sky, Godspeed! You Black Emperor, The For Carnation, Silver Mount Zion, and Tortoise. |
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| Haak |
not heard about The Album Leaf, but if they are anything like Mogwai, i must check them out. I love Mogwai! "Happy songs for happy people" is one of the best albums I've heard. My favourite tune is Killing all the flies
You could check out m83 http://www.ilovem83.com/ |
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| shoXx |
Post-Rock/Experimental: (taken from amg)
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Post-rock was the dominant form of experimental rock during the '90s, a loose movement that drew from greatly varied influences and nearly always combined standard rock instrumentation with electronics. Post-rock brought together a host of mostly experimental genres — Kraut-rock, ambient, prog-rock, space rock, math rock, tape music, minimalist classical, British IDM, jazz (both avant-garde and cool), and dub reggae, to name the most prevalent — with results that were largely based in rock, but didn't rock per se. Post-rock was hypnotic and often droning (especially the guitar-oriented bands), and the brighter-sounding groups were still cool and cerebral — overall, the antithesis of rock's visceral power. In fact, post-rock was something of a reaction against rock, particularly the mainstream's co-opting of alternative rock; much post-rock was united by a sense that rock & roll had lost its capacity for real rebellion, that it would never break away from tired formulas or empty, macho posturing. Thus, post-rock rejected (or subverted) any elements it associated with rock tradition. It was far more concerned with pure sound and texture than melodic hooks or song structure; it was also usually instrumental, and if it did employ vocals, they were often incidental to the overall effect. The musical foundation for post-rock crystallized in 1991, with the release of two very different landmarks: Talk Talk's Laughing Stock and Slint's Spiderland. Laughing Stock was the culmination of Talk Talk's move away from synth-pop toward a moody, delicate fusion of ambient, jazz, and minimalist chamber music; Spiderland, meanwhile, was full of deliberate, bass-driven grooves, mumbled poetry, oblique structures, and extreme volume shifts. While those two albums would influence many future post-rock bands, the term itself didn't appear until critic Simon Reynolds coined it as a way to describe the Talk Talk-inspired ambient experiments of Bark Psychosis. The term was later applied to everything from unclassifiable iconoclasts (Gastr del Sol, Cul de Sac, Main) to more tuneful indie-rock experimenters like Stereolab, Laika, and the Sea and Cake (not to mention a raft of Slint imitators). Post-rock came into its own as a recognizable trend with the Chicago band Tortoise's second album, 1996's Millions Now Living Will Never Die, perhaps the farthest-reaching fusion of post-rock's myriad touchstones. Suddenly there was a way for critics to classify artists as diverse as Labradford, Trans Am, Ui, Flying Saucer Attack, Mogwai, Jim O'Rourke, and their predecessors (though most hated the label). Post-rock quickly became an accepted, challenging cousin of indie rock, centered around the Thrill Jockey, Kranky, Drag City, and Too Pure labels. Ironically, by the end of the decade, post-rock had itself acquired a reputation for sameness; some found the style's dispassionate intellectuality boring, while others felt that its formerly radical fusions had become predictable, partly because many artists were offering only slight variations on their original ideas. However, even as the backlash set in, a newer wave of bands (the Dirty Three, Rachel's, Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Sigur Rós) gained wider recognition for their distinctive sounds, suggesting that the style wasn't exhausted after all.
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my fav songs:
mogwai - cody
mogwai - christmas steps
mogwai - mogwai fear satan
explosions in the sky - have you passed through this night?
albums you must check out:
godspeed you black emperor! - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
explosions in the sky - those who tell the truth shall die, those who tell the truth shall live forever
explosions in the sky - earth is not a cold dead place
mogwai - young team
mogwai - come on die young (c.o.d.y)
sigur ros - ()
send me a pm if you have any questions.
"there's only two types of music. rock and roll" |
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| Blue. |
| I've heard that Mogwai's style is experimental rock and I like them, much like the Postal Service and I'm starting to get into Sigur Ros. |
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| [ groovypants ] |
I purchased "The Album Leaf - In a Safe Place" from Amazon only 2 weeks ago, and it's pretty good. :)
Check out the audiodregs label for similar stuff e.g. e*rock @ www.darla.com
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