Post rock/ MATH ROCK?

moreitsythanyou wrote: I suggested Lightning Bolt months ago informally.

They've been approved for a while to Avant. You want to write the bio?

^^^ Now those guys are crazy! Have you seen their live videos here in PA?
http://www.progarchives.com/media.asp?id=966

I always have mixed feelings with these guys. Sometimes the music is just too jagged, but that same characteristic is a good thing in other songs like in "40 Rods to the Hog's Head"

They added a singer to their music in their split with By The End Of Tonight. Good stuff.

Patience friends. I'm only one guy handling the genre at the moment so the addition process is a bit slow, but rest assured that many bands will find a place to call home in PA.

Philéas wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: I suggested Lightning Bolt months ago informally. What happened?

Are they really math rock? I've been listening to Hypermagic Mountain for some months now and I've always seen them as a Noise Rock band. This doesn't mean that they're any less prog, but its hard to place them under one of the existing PA genres. The ZAR team are the ones with Lightning Bolt's custody for now and, as far as I know, they're cleared for addition.

Grindcore and math rock? that sounds like Dillinger Escape Plan, not Don Caballero....Don Cab isn't really that heavy at all

Philéas wrote: Proletariat wrote: Oh and we need to get Drive Like Jehu on the site, they are probablly the second most important Math-Rock band, right behind Don Cab Here lies the problem with Math Rock. A lot of it isn't very Prog-sounding. Drive Like Jehu is a good example. Polvo, Chavez and Giant's Chair are three more. One could also make a case for Ethel Meserve and The Hal al Shedad. The problem is that these would seem very out of place both in the Math Rock category and in Prog Related, yet Drive Like Jehu, for example, was one of the earliest bands to be labelled Math Rock, and Polvo and Chavez are also among the more important bands. We need to somehow make a distinction between "Proggy" Math Rock and "un-Proggy" Math Rock. Note that I don't consider the un-Proggy bands less good. They're highly recommended, especially Polvo. - Make sure to get Lightning Bolt included, by the way. Very Hella-esque. June of 44 would fit too.

I suggested Lightning Bolt months ago informally.

TheProgtologist wrote: schizoid_man77 wrote: I dont know, I'm not too big a fan of non stop crazy complexity. I will listen a couple more times, but so far, I hear the grind core of math rock.   I love Damon Che's drum work.The guy is amazing and an extremely underrated drummer.

Is he the drummer of Battles by any chance?

Proletariat wrote: Oh and we need to get Drive Like Jehu on the site, they are probablly the second most important Math-Rock band, right behind Don Cab

Here lies the problem with Math Rock. A lot of it isn't very Prog-sounding. Drive Like Jehu is a good example. Polvo, Chavez and Giant's Chair are three more. One could also make a case for Ethel Meserve and The Hal al Shedad.

The problem is that these would seem very out of place both in the Math Rock category and in Prog Related, yet Drive Like Jehu, for example, was one of the earliest bands to be labelled Math Rock, and Polvo and Chavez are also among the more important bands.

We need to somehow make a distinction between "Proggy" Math Rock and "un-Proggy" Math Rock.

Note that I don't consider the un-Proggy bands less good. They're highly recommended, especially Polvo.

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Make sure to get Lightning Bolt included, by the way. Very Hella-esque. June of 44 would fit too.


Edited by Philéas - December 13 2007 at 15:43

Atavachron wrote: Proletariat wrote: ^^^ come on, they have probably the biggest influence, they represent the punk-leaning side like Don Cab represents the prog-leaning side (imo) Shellac

I dont know, I'm not too big a fan of non stop crazy complexity. I will listen a couple more times, but so far, I hear the grind core of math rock.

Proletariat wrote: ^^^ come on, they have probably the biggest influence, they represent the punk-leaning side like Don Cab represents the prog-leaning side (imo)

Shellac