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Post-rock incorporates stylings and traits from a variety of musical genres and scenes, including krautrock, ambient, psychedelia, prog rock, space rock, math rock, tape music and other experimental recording techniques, minimalist classical, British IDM, jazz (both avant-garde and cool), and dub, as well as post-punk, free jazz, contemporary ...
Jun 14, 2021 · Post-Rock Music Guide: History and Sounds of Post-Rock. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Jun 14, 2021 • 2 min read. Beginning in the mid-1990s, a number of indie rock bands moved beyond traditional blues-based guitar riffs and introduced a new subgenre known as post-rock.
Post-Rock. 17,009 releases. Emphasis on timbre, texture, and atmosphere over traditional conventions while often embracing influences from genres not usually associated with Rock. Read more. ADVERTISEMENT. Top-ranked albums. See full chart. #1. Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven! Godspeed You Black Emperor! #2. Spiderland. Slint. #3.
- Slint – “Don, Aman” (from Spiderland) 1991. I generally chose to leave the proto-post-rock bands off this list because including them would mean we’d have to stretch it back another ten years and fifty tracks, but leaving Slint off would be like not inviting Dave Mustaine to the Metallica alumni party.
- Tortoise – “Djed” (from Millions Now Living Will Never Die) 1996. It’s not an exaggeration to say that this song from Millions Now Living Will Never Die changed my life.
- Mogwai – “Helicon 1″ (from Ten Rapid) 1997. I’ve been listening to “Helicon 1″ at least once a month (and in bad months, many times more) for two decades.
- Dianogah – “What Is Your Landmass” (from As Seen From Above) 1997. Just four songs into this thing and we’ve already got another one produced by Steve Albini, from Chicago trio Dianogah’s debut As Seen From Above.
- Bark Psychosis. Hex. (Circa, 1994) It seems fitting that our number one album should be Hex, the record which, as legend has it, was the first to be described as “post-rock”, in a review by journalist Simon Reynolds.
- Slint. Spiderland. (Touch And Go, 1991) Slint released the now-iconic Spiderland in 1991 while still a bunch of Kentucky nobodies. People couldn’t find out anything about them: by the time the album was released the band had split ways, meaning no interviews, and at a time where there was of course no internet for online sleuthing.
- Tortoise. Millions Now Living Will Never Die. (Thrill Jockey, 1996) With seven albums recorded over a 26-year career, Tortoise are practically establishment figures.
- Talk Talk. Laughing Stock. (Verve Records, 1991) Talk Talk spent the late ‘80s spending EMI’s money on the perverse dismantling of their glossy avant-pop formula, which had delivered them huge, and somewhat unlikely, commercial success earlier in the decade (who else on this list has written anything remotely as catchy as ‘It’s My Life’?).
Post-Rock. 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.
Dec 19, 2016 · Post-rock is one of the most difficult genre descriptors to boil down to its essentials for a list like this. There’s no truly defining sound, just a mindset towards taking the raw materials...
