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post rock bands?

StoreTags: hipster, post rock

Author: Tripnik on December 03 2007

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--> I've been slowly getting back into post rock bands and been less interested in electronic stuff lately. However, after years and years of not keeping up with it, I'm totally lost in a sea of hipsterdom...how will people ever think I'm cool? ;) There are so many new groups out there and I'm sick of scouring myspace for samples of random groups who usually end up sucking.

Some bands I've been into are (in no particular order):
red sparowes
daturah
do make say think
mogwai
shalabi effect
mono
sigur ros
explosions in the sky
envy
the evpatoria report
tortoise

Any suggestions for other stuff in this vein that I should check out? I'm starting to feel like that old guy who's out of touch with contemporary music.

Also, I've been totally bored out of my skull recently. The prospect of sitting around in my apartment and tinkering on my laptop has finally lost it's charm. If anyone is in the NYC/brooklyn area and feels like dorking out over a coffee/beer or catching a show sometime, hit me up.

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1:01pm + Tripnik

It's a blanket term that's supposed to describe music that uses rock instruments for non rock purposes. Instead of emphasizing vocals, instrumental passages and more complex orchestrations are highlighted. Guitars tend to be used more for a timbral element than a driving rhythmic force. Space rock and shoegaze bands tend to fall under this title as do jazz/classical groups like isotope 217, tortoise, and slow six. The term has been criticized for being too vague, and has been rejected by most bands that are commonly considered post rock.

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1:01pm + mlbot

speaking of Swans, M Gira's new album is pretty damned sweeet. Angels of Light

hardest rockin' acoustic guitar I've heard since Bob Mould's "Workbook".

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1:04pm + Roshi

Shoegazer for me is more about experimenting with distortion, feedback, sustain, and detuning. A lot of it also has a very menacing edge to it - I think it's really about conflicting emotions and chaotic textures with beautiful, buried vocals.

Postrock tends to be a lot cleaner and more measured, I think.

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1:13pm + tmns

the term post rock is a bit wank really but apparently it was first used in print when a reviewer was writing about the album Hex by Bark Psychosis, and now it just seems to be used to describe any instrumental rock music.

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1:15pm + mlbot

All labels are wank. Which is worse, tho: post-rock or nu-gazer?

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1:16pm + crabster

Perhaps Rodan or Shipping News? Sometimes chicago rock bands like June of 44 and the crownhate ruin are lumped in as well.

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1:16pm + Mr12000

Death by Panda. electronic netlabel post-rock.

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1:17pm + tmns

anyone who uses the term nu- in front of anything should be immediately killed.

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1:17pm + Roshi

mlbot said: "All labels are wank. Which is worse, tho: post-rock or nu-gazer?"

Nu-gazer for sure...ugh.

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1:24pm + crabster

[url≈http://www.youtube.com/?v=r10rDfZLWAg]Don't forget: Hoover[/url]
The crownhate ruin

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1:26pm + crabster

Uh. Wasn't able to edit after all. Don't forget Hoover
Note to self. '≈' ≠ '='

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1:28pm + tantan

nu-shooz-gazer

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1:39pm + mlbot

tmns said: "anyone who uses the term nu- in front of anything should be immediately killed."

what about if its enbedded in the middle of a phrase, like:

talking makes nu-sense?

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1:40pm + mlbot

tantan said: "nu-shooz-gazer"

I can't wait to see if anyone besides old Portland nerds gets this joke.

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1:43pm + tmns

mlbot said: "

tmns said: "anyone who uses the term nu- in front of anything should be immediately killed."

what about if its enbedded in the middle of a phrase, like:

talking makes nu-sense?"

that's even worse, i'm away into the forrest to punch a tree...

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