AVOID THE LIGHT

The Post-Rock crisis seems obvious when you're listening to a band like LDC. On the one hand, there's nothing awful about it, melodies are rare but memorable, riffs are heavy, instrumentation is satisfying, influences are clear (between TOOL and EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY), and if you're too snobby to fully enjoy the abum you may just take it as a nice background. On the other hand, 75% of Post-Rock nowadays sounds exactly like LDC, and dozens of new albums (filling blogs and forums every week) sound ALL THE SAME, the same heavy Post-Rock, faceless, emotionless, schematic, but hardly innovative or experimental.

It's a disease for the whole music world today, I hear you're saying, and it's hard not to agree with you. But good Lord, the genre, founded by TALK TALK's masterpieces, BARK PSYCHOSIS' ethereal croonings and GYBE's mournful dirges, turns into MTV-metal (with weird videoart instead of vocals/lyrics). Every new Post-Rock "wave" carries nothing new/fresh/interesting, just makes it more common and regular...so stop calling it Post-Rock then.

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