I'm listening to a lot of post rock/pigeonhole term for good music with guitars and melancholy, and a tad of electronic music these days. I know my classics like Dylan, etc. and I really like bands like Mogwai, Dark Captain Light Captain, Fleet Foxes, John Matthias, Double U... Even if it's more electronic like Sebastien Schuller I'm interested in giving a listen.
Any recommendations?
Noisician
folk, you say? i can recommend you lots of neofolk if you wish.
Vetiver
Great Lake Swimmers
Explosions in the Sky
Sigur Ros
Sickoakes
Boy In Static
Sinner DC
Auburn Lull
Beef Terminal
Helios
Mice Parade
Horse Feathers
Clue to Kalo
Iron & Wine
Kiln
Hammock
Lights Out Asia
Seabear
Pelican
Port-Royal
Red Sparowes
Retail Sectors
Russian Circles
AMPOP
Beware of Safety
The Most Serene Republic
there's lots more, but that should get you started.
PETRAN
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Originally posted by Ted Promo
Vetiver
Great Lake Swimmers
Explosions in the Sky
Sigur Ros
Sickoakes
Boy In Static
Sinner DC
Auburn Lull
Beef Terminal
Helios
Mice Parade
Horse Feathers
Clue to Kalo
Iron & Wine
Kiln
Hammock
Lights Out Asia
Seabear
Pelican
Port-Royal
Red Sparowes
Retail Sectors
Russian Circles
AMPOP
Beware of Safety
The Most Serene Republic
there's lots more, but that should get you started.
This man knows his stuff. Some typical/legendary albums (These are the albums that got me in my now favorite music-post-rock- in 2005.)
Godspeed You Black Emperor!- Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (The bible of post-rock. Progressive rock or even classical for the 21st century. Epic melodic quitars, dark ambient passages, serenade pianos, dramatic violins and cellos, drums that evolve from slow metronomes to menacing machine-guns, enigmatic monologues and radio interferences. Post-Rock)
A Silver Mount Zion- He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace The Corners Of Our Rooms (Started as GYBE!'s Sideproject but went far beyond this point. Another excellent post-apocalyptic orchestral post-rock album)
Mogwai- Young Team (you'll know that already heh..also Ten Rapid and Come On Die Young. Early Mogwai made some stellar noisy pieces that were in another level than their current conservative,predictive output)
Explosions in The Sky - Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever (a legendary post-rock album by the creators of a more melodic and romantic, but still epic and cinematic post-rock. Next album, "The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place", is one of my all-time favorite albums and IMO is even better than this, but the current album is better for starting. Still, sublime music)
Sigur Ros- ( ) (Sigur Ros' golden age. Many people would still argue that Agaetis Byrjun-their second/officialy first-album is still their greatest and Takk is beautiful as well, but i consider this album-their third album- to be very special. This is one of the most melancholic works i ever encountered in my life and i won't listen to this unless the situation is very special. As the title suggests this is music for nothingness. Or for a vast, endless glacial land filled with sorrow and memories.)
M83- Dead Cities Red Seas and Lost Ghosts (another legendary post-rock creation, coming from before Anthony Gonzalez's 80s-new-wave fever-which is also good but just not of the same high-quality. Mogwai Noise+Orchestral Passages+Shoegaze quitars+Analogue Electronics= A Masterpiece. The next alum- Before The Dawn Heals Us is also excellent. I actually prefer BTDHU but i think that this is a better introduction.)
Labradford- Mi Media Naranja (this classic post-rock album comes from an era that "post-rock" didn't necessarily mean GYBE!/EITS-copycats but arty and avant-garde rock music. The style of those guys was very weird. They played dark and drone-edged ambient only with conventional organs-quitars, bass and drums- supplied with many effects. The music conveyed an American-west Ghost-city atmosphere. Coupled with the singers whispering voice this is the journey to your inner nightmares and dreams. )
Caspian- The Four Trees (A second-generation post-rock album, coming as an even more epic and violent version of Explosions In the Sky's music. Some [albums] are white light)
Red Sparowes- At The Soundless Dawn (Red Sparowes first is IMO their best. Epic bombastic soundscapes made for "the day after" type movies. )
The Evpatoria Report- Golevka (this is just one of the greatest and stellar albums ever made. The direction is GYBE!-ian (and Mogwai-ish) but the dramatic reverbarated violin, the quitar playing and the samples create something very distinct and special. Must listen)
Yndi Halda- Enjoy Eternal Bliss (another very epic and orchestral album. In a similar approach to Golevka, this has some sublime epic quitar playing and beautiful violin.)
This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain E.P. (TWDY are an EITS-influenced band. They recently came with their first official self-titled debut album, which is excellent, but their first E.P.-which could be an album in length-is still their best. You can listen to both of them anyways!)
God Is An Astronaut- The End of The Beginning (GIAA have made quite some albums now, but i consider their first one to be their best one. Catchy melodic quitar passages, synth atmospheres and even some more poppy Depeche Mode-style hooks make an awesome journey. Their next album-All Is Violent, All Is Bright is also cool)
65daysofstatic- The Fall of Math (post-rock epic passages blend with violent electronics, radio noise, Aphex Twin at his offbeat obsessive-compulsive moments and serene and sweet calm-after-the-storm melodic lullabies. Every album is great by these guys)
Sparrows Swarm and Sing- O'Shenandoah, Mighty Death Will Find Me (another GYBE!-ian band, but really bautiful music)
Hammock- Kenotic (lush ambient post-rock. Dreamy soundscapes never sounded better. A beautiful album, radiating melancholy, hope and even some kind of spirituality)
Port-Royal- Afraid To Dance (mysterious post-rock made with atmospheric quitars, enigmatic ambient tapestries and an overall enigmatic and nostalgic atmosphere. The Italian artist's inspiration comes from the atmopshere and history of east europe, the cold-war, and european philosophy and literature. All these reflecting echoes from both early Mogwai and Autechre, mixing quitars with electronics)
Emery Reel- Emery Reel (a little known ambient-post-rock band. Some of the most beautiful, gentle and elegant nostalgic and melancholic melodies you'll ever hear.)
Boy Is Fiction- Boy Is Fiction (a recent purely electronic album made by a new enigmatic artist. This music can be described as pure post-rock made purely with synths rather than quitars and drums! melodic quitars are substituted with pianos and dreamy synths whereas distorted quitar explosions are translated to violent synth-noise. A masterful electronic album. We need more music like this)
El Ten Eleven- El Ten Eleven (this can be described as happy and loopy post-rock and it comes as a nice break in the bleak and usually melancholic post-world. It is still very nice, simple and hopeful music)
Lights Out Asia- Eyes Like Brontide (the new album by LOA is an excelent ambient/cinematic/electronic post-rock gem. Whilst the previous album featured some nice emotional ambient soundscapes, this is mroe dynamic and "violent" giving the music a new edge. Always mixed with the singer's excellent and very emotive and powerful voice. Post-rock with vocals is rare, but when it happens e.g. Sigur Ros or these guys, it is surely distinct and special)
This Is Your Captain Speaking- Eternal Return (one of the latest and newest post-rock albums i've heard and admitedly one of the greatest, proving that even at this times were post-rock IMO is declining, some great works are still composed. The music is very powerful and moving transcending a haunting but hopeful feeling/truth to the listener)
I so wanted to make this catalogue lol. Thanks for this thread!
There are many more good releases e.g. by Sumner McKane, Joy Wants Eternity, Tunturia, Tristeza etc. but these are the first ones that came to mind. Many of them got me into the music and hold a very special place to my heart whereas some others-which are newer-are just excellent. There is even a very good forum called Afterthepostrock.com which features post-rock, shoegaze, ambient and IDM (having a seperate sub-forum for each one of those genres) and you can find a lot of good stuff and information there. Also, a classic site for post-rock is Thesilentballet.com. So you can learn a lot about newer and more underground obscure stuff (and even play the hipster lol)
d-miurge
Thanks for the heads up guys, there are some nice groups and albums I didn't know in the stuff you recommend.
Let me add some more, mostly more electronic:
Psapp - The Camel's Back (more electronic)
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Serge Gainsbourg - Une histoire de Melody Nelson => a masterpiece from the 70s
Seventeen Evergreen - Life embarasses me on earth (purchased that one in my local shop because I liked the artwork)
Gravenhurst - Flashlight Season
Blue Foundation - Life is a Ghost
Two Banks of Four - Junkyard Gods
PETRAN
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Originally posted by d-miurge
Thanks for the heads up guys, there are some nice groups and albums I didn't know in the stuff you recommend.
Let me add some more, mostly more electronic:
Psapp - The Camel's Back (more electronic)
Mugison - Mugiboogie
Serge Gainsbourg - Une histoire de Melody Nelson => a masterpiece from the 70s
Seventeen Evergreen - Life embarasses me on earth (purchased that one in my local shop because I liked the artwork)
Gravenhurst - Flashlight Season
Blue Foundation - Life is a Ghost
Two Banks of Four - Junkyard Gods
These are okish but have nothing to do with post-rock lol.
I like Blue Foundation by the way and this 80s revival thing its cool. :cool:
PETRAN
This is post-rock
d-miurge
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Originally posted by PETRAN
These are okish but have nothing to do with post-rock lol.
I know I know, but the lines between post-rock/IDM/trip-hop are really vague imo. Nathan Fake has made shoegaze tracks. :p What interests me is a general atmosphere more than the means to create it.
trancepeter
this is actually one of my favorite "genres", especially m83. btw, has someone actually tried to sculpt this music out of pink noise? i mean, the other way must work too :p
SMC
You seem to be open to a wide variety of stuff, so, here are some albums i listen to a lot:
Low - "The Curtain Hits The Cast" (1996)
Minimalistic and understated but deeply heartfelt dream pop, sometimes refered to as "slowcore". Sparse instrumentation, subtle vocal harmonies, great songs. My favorite album from the early period of this great band.
Auburn Lull - "Alone I Admire" (1999)
Beautiful, slooow shoegaze with an immense atmosphere.
Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago" (2008) and "Blood Bank" (2009)
One of the big indie hits of the past year. The style is singer-songwriter, indie folk(ish) with a very wintry atmosphere. Sparse and restrained but emotional.
Jakob - "Solace" (2006)
Heavy drone rock, or, droning post-rock with a big shoegaze influence. Absolutely mindblowing album by this instrumental band from New Zealand.
The Evpatoria Report - "Maar" (2008)
PETRAN recommended the debut album "Golevka" from this Swiss post-rock band, so i'll mention this new album of theirs which is really good too. Comparisons can be drawn to GY!BE but the music is more focused, more spacy and less chamber rock.
PETRAN
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Originally posted by SMC
You seem to be open to a wide variety of stuff, so, here are some albums i listen to a lot:
Low - "The Curtain Hits The Cast" (1996)
Minimalistic and understated but deeply heartfelt dream pop, sometimes refered to as "slowcore". Sparse instrumentation, subtle vocal harmonies, great songs. My favorite album from the early period of this great band.
Auburn Lull - "Alone I Admire" (1999)
Beautiful, slooow shoegaze with an immense atmosphere.
Bon Iver - "For Emma, Forever Ago" (2008) and "Blood Bank" (2009)
One of the big indie hits of the past year. The style is singer-songwriter, indie folk(ish) with a very wintry atmosphere. Sparse and restrained but emotional.
Jakob - "Solace" (2006)
Heavy drone rock, or, droning post-rock with a big shoegaze influence. Absolutely mindblowing album by this instrumental band from New Zealand.
The Evpatoria Report - "Maar" (2008)
PETRAN recommended the debut album "Golevka" from this Swiss post-rock band, so i'll mention this new album of theirs which is really good too. Comparisons can be drawn to GY!BE but the music is more focused, more spacy and less chamber rock.
Low were very nice, especially those 90s albums. What do you think about Mazzy Star? i think that they have a cool drone-rock/slowcore (whatever they call it) sound as well, nice for relaxing and for setting a druggy (and even "romantic")atmosphere he.
Another nice experimental 90s band which can be labelled as post-rock (in the 90s, more "free/avantgarde" sense) is/was Stereolab. They played a kind of "neo-kraut" influenced by Neu! (which is one of my favorite prog/kraut bands of the 70s by the way)and Can. They made some awesome music me thinks.
p.s. Auburn Lull have made some fantastic music , i really liked "Alone I Admire". I haven't listened to the 2008 album though. I'll surely dig it now, thanks for reminding me :p
SMC
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Originally posted by PETRAN
Low were very nice, especially those 90s albums. What do you think about Mazzy Star? i think that they have a cool drone-rock/slowcore (whatever they call it) sound as well, nice for relaxing and for setting a druggy (and even "romantic")atmosphere he.
Never heard of them, actually. But i'm looking them up right now and they seem interesting, i'm gonna have a listen.
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Another nice experimental 90s band which can be labelled as post-rock (in the 90s, more "free/avantgarde" sense) is/was Stereolab. They played a kind of "neo-kraut" influenced by Neu! (which is one of my favorite prog/kraut bands of the 70s by the way)and Can. They made some awesome music me thinks.
I like Stereolab but i've only heard two or three of their albums so i don't really have a complete understanding of them. I'm gonna have to listen to them some more.
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p.s. Auburn Lull have made some fantastic music , i really liked "Alone I Admire". I haven't listened to the 2008 album though. I'll surely dig it now, thanks for reminding me :p
I haven't heard it either, but it should be great. :)
