Looking for good post-rock - Progressive Rock Music Forum

progtime1234567 wrote:

Give me good post-rock bands to listen to, preferably the classic and/or more popular bands in the sub-genre that I will probably recognize.

What are you already familiar with and enjoy?

Godspeed you black emperor is good. Have you heard Sigur Ros? I have the () and it's good but very mellow. I'm not really a post rock expert myself so will be paying attention to this thread myself. The Battles first album "mirrors" is good but it's more math rock though.

I delved into post-rock around 2008-ish, listened for a few years intensely, but now rarely come back.

Records I enjoyed the most - aside from early (true) GY!BE - were:

The Evpatoria Report - Golevka (2005)

Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss (2006)

Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm (2004)

Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw (2005)

bold - most would consider these post-metal, Neurosis were kings of post-metal in those days. But try anyway!

Other huge names in post-rock at that time were: Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut, Mogwai, A Silver Mt. Zion and maybe Red Sparowes. So if you wanna feel the zeitgeist of 2000s and explore post-rock the way most people did, these bands are exemplary... although not my favorite! Too often I felt they're building songs on a same formula, over and over again, it didn't look honest really. I called them crescendocore.

If you will enjoy Neurosis and Pelican, feel free to PM me, as I listened to so called post-metal with passion and maybe could recommend you some good stuff.

here are some bands for a good start

GY!BE

Explosions in the Sky

Mono

Mogwai

God Is An Astronaut

Long Distance Calling

Sigur Ros

If These trees Could Talk

Sleepmakeswaves

Collapse Under The Empire

Edited by Cristi - September 29 2020 at 02:28

Though I've grown out of post-rock for the last five years (grown tired of it Sleepy

, a it's too repetitive or confined to its own space), two of the more original (as in inventive and inhabitual) were Tortoise and Sigur Ros.

The others I would cite would be GYBE! (and its offshoots), Do Say Make Think and Tarentel

I'm aware some will prefer vocals , so I'll point out Mogwaï and EitS

This Will Destroy You - Young Mountain

Jambinai - Onda

Disco Inferno - D.I Goes Pop

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock

MONO - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

There have been many good suggestions here (as far as I know them). Didn't see someone mention A Silver Mt Zion (and all their derivative names...). The singing on some tracks is an acquired taste, but after some time I acquired it and I personally prefer them over Godspeed You Black Emperor and over most of the other bands mentioned here. They may be a bit peculiar though to some...

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