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Description of Post-Rock

 
Post-Rock was first coined by writer Simon Reynolds in 1994 to describe the emerging sounds of hard-to-categorize bands such as Stereolab, Seefeel, Main and Pram. Its street usage came to describe bands that play on the margins of rock's culture and sound, often cross-pollinating with dance music, fusing the acoustic with the electronic, the out-dated with the cutting-edge, the lo-fi with the eternally remixed. Artists Tortoise and Ui create mesmerizing, cyclical rhythms that are a counterpoint to the lush drones of Mogwai and Godspeed You Black Emperor! To Rococo Rot and Kreidler explore the spaces between Intelligent Dance Music and Krautrock while Trans Am creates a pastiche of '70s and '80s FM radio.
 

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With an arsenal of vintage
electronics, this group
create a cartoonish
whirlwind of dreaminess
and all-out assault.

Cul de Sac

Instrumental group who
take Surf, Psychedelia and
post-graduate jamming into
unclassifiable, stellar
realms. Cul de Sac are led...

Dirty Three

This violin-fronted
Australian trio create
instrumental forays that dig
at the dark recesses of
emotion. How this Austral...

Do Make Say Think

Like a less meandering
Godspeed, DMST spool out
elegaic, instrumental
poems, part jazz, part rock,
part beauty, part brains.

Don Caballero

Don Caballero are a
Pittsburgh-based Indie Rock
band who create heavy,
complex instrumental
songs. That Don Caballero...

Fridge

Youthful trio whose
tweaked,
organic/electronic
hybridizations have shown
more inventive spark and...

Ganger

Disbanded, excellent group
who were capable of being
expansive, atonal, and
complex without losing
sight of rhythm. Their hea...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

The band exist as a large
group of about nine
musicians who tend toward
anonymity, collective
creation and improvisatio...

Isotope 217

Lead by Rob Mazurek and
members Tortoise, they
bend the rules of
electronica with their
Post-Rock and avant-jazz i...

June of 44

Bleak songs, filled with
guitars that spasmodically
emit clangorous chords
beneath sighed vocals and
pained wails.

Kreidler

Kreidler combine choppy,
industrialized instrumental
grooves with a wide array
of new and vintage
electronic instruments.

Laika

Named for the first dog in
space, Laika forged their
own sound by mixing beats
with lounge ambiance.
Laika is the project that M...

Maquiladora

San Diego's Maquiladora
might live on the ocean but
their sound is pure desert
rock, as dry and wide open
as the Mojave. In Spanish,...

Mogwai

Mogwai's spacey,
fleshed-out guitar
arrangements are blissful
drones that always stop
short of meandering. Mog...

Moonshake

A jumbled, yet cohesive
collection of hip-hop beats,
Dub, minimalism, angular art
pop and the occasional
avant-squawk. The group...

Pram

Antiqued experiments in
spectral dreaminess
featuring dusty analog
sounds and vaguely off-key
disconcerting female voc...

Rachel's

Rich, haunting, expressive
tapestries that verge on
being neo-classical while
utilizing a full spectrum of
musicians. Members of Ra...

Slint

Short-lived, seminal
Louisville act whose
precise, heavy
arrangements were laced
with fear, restraint and w...

The Benevento Russo Duo

Keysman Marco Benevento
and drummer Joe Russo
first came together in 2003
for several key sessions at
NYC's Knitting Factory. "T...

The Sea and Cake

A more elastic, soulful side
of indie rock emerges in
this group's luscious,
precise, mathematical R&B.
Bassist Eric Claridge and v...

To Rococo Rot

A fusion of Krautrock
hypnotics, slight guitar and
a blanket of synthetics that
is both mechanical and
emotional. To Rococo Rot...

Tortoise

A group of ex-punks
who've managed to turn
kids on to fusion and
minimalist composers. Gee,
thanks! Tortoise took thei...

Trans Am

Driving bass riffs and drum
beats that keep on keepin'
on with Kraftwerk synths
and robo-vocals along for
the ride.

Ui

Bass-heavy, organic,
focused grooves that often
feature vocal refrains and
banjos. A return to the
funkiest post-punk. Bassis...

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