Post/Math Rock Favorites

Favourite band, I would say A Northern Chorus.

Tristeza – Halo Heads    5:31 
Cul de Sac – Far Off, the Fabulous Iron Serpent Whistles    6:08 
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Antennas to Heaven    18:57    
Godspeed You! Black Emperor – Moya    10:49  
Sigur Ros - Svefn-g-englar
Sigur Ros - Untitled #4 (a.k.a. "Njósnavélin")
Red Sparowes – Our Happiest Days Slowly Began to Turn Into Dust     5:39 
Red Sparowes – Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky and The Air Filled With a Reddish Glow  7:21
Talk Talk – I Believe in You
Elbow – Newborn    7:37  
Jeniferever – Atlantis Arise!     7:20 
Jeniferever  - For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky
Jeniferever  - White Belt, Black Heart
A Northern Chorus – Until These Seams Are Sewn Again   
A Northern Chorus – And Still She Sleeps 
A Northern Chorus – Costa del Sol
A Northern Chorus – These Days 
A Northern Chorus – Moment Fit to Remind     6:41
July Skies – Autumn Fires    2:02 
July Skies – Air To Ground At Manorbier     3:57 
July Skies – Ruined and Disused Churches of Norfolk
Piano Magic - Wake Up 5:50
Piano Magic - Comets
Trans Am – MOTR    3:41

Some bands are hard to establish as postrock, because related to different genres, but post-rock is itself  based on styles like instrumental indie rock, dreamy shoegazer, dreampop, ambient, darkwave, post-punk, post-hardcore, progressive rock. So it's a confused genre. Shoegaze-bands of the 90's, for example Slowdive, wasn't called post-rock, but it's been an influence to later post-rock bands with dreamy shoegazer elements. I left out This Empty Flow , awesome band, which could be related to postrock but maybe more initially related to darkwave/coldwave. But I could have included songs by them. I added a couple of Piano Magic songs, which is also hard to establish genre-wise. But in their album from 1999 I hear stuff that reminds me of GY!BE , so I guess it's been an influence to GYBE.  I think no good postrock band should be "typical" post rock, because that's the sort of band of the 2000's that have popularized some characteristics mainly from GYBE, using sounds like tremolo on the guitar, feedback and other effects, using long song names, and using crescendos. Most of those later post-rock bands have made it simplified and accessible, often basing a song on one theme of chords that goes round and round. To me it's mostly insufficient and silly. It can often sound like an unfinished song that lacks vocals, or just feels "lacking".

TOP 5 Post Rock/Math Rock Artists

Bark Psychosis

Cicada

Sigur Rós

Collapse Under the Empire

Maserati

TOP 10 Post Rock/Math Rock Albums:

1. Shadows of the Sun - ULVER

2. Code Name: Dust Sucker - BARK PSYCHOSIS

3. …and so we destroyed everything… - SLEEPMAKESWAVES

4. The Sirens Sound - COLLAPSE UNDER THE EMPIRE

5. All Is Violent, All Is Bright - GOD IS AN ASTRONAUT

6. Ágaetus Byrjun - SIGUR RóS

7. Gifts from Enola - GIFTS FROM ENOLA

8. Reverie - DATURAH

9. Sunrise - MY EDUCATION

10. In a Cold Embrace - BATTLESTATIONS

Honorable Mentions:

Pieces - CICADA

Sagarmatha - THE APPLESEED CAST

Over the Sea/Under the Water – CICADA

You Are There - MONO

The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place - EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY

Chasing After Shadows . . . Living with the Ghosts - HAMMOCK

( ) - SIGUR RÓS

Tertia - CASPIAN

Passages - MASERATI

Every Red Heart Shines towards the Red Sun - RED SPAROWES

Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR

For Long Tomorrow - TOE.

TOP 20 Post Rock/Math Rock Songs:

1. “What Happened?” Ulver

2. “You Can’t Keep a Bad Man Down” Oceansize

 3. “The Siren Sound” Collapse Under the Empire

4. “EOS” Ulver

5. “Ny Batteri” Sigur Rós

6. “Slowsnow” Matryoshka

7. “Monoliths” Maserati

8. “Lazarus” Bark Psychosis

9. “a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun” sleepmakeswaves

10. “Lust” My Education

11. “Three Jumps the Devil” Autumn Chorus

12. “The Road West” The Appleseed Cart

13. “Let the Children Go” Ulver

14. “Finally…We’re Still Together” Cicada

15. “Alagoas” Gifts from Enola

16. “The Last Man” Clint Mansell

17. “Hybrisma” Daturah

18. “Svefn-G-Englar” Sigur Rós

19. “Sunrise” My Education

20. “Chinook Winds” Sunwrae

“Pure As Snow (Trails of the Winter Storm)” Mono

“Autumn Never Fall” Sunwrae

“Suicide by Star” God Is an Astronaut

“Ghosts of the Garden City” Caspian

“(03)” Sigur Rós

“Lake’s End” Cicada

“The Great Leap Poured Down Upon Us One Day Like a Mighty Storm Suddenly and Furiously Blinding our Senses” Red Sparowes

“As I Breathe” Robin Guthrie

“What Fell Down from the Moon Last Night” Joy Wants Eternity

“Sultans of El Sur” The Mercury Program

“Auxilio Maté” Tristeza

“Dust in the Devil’s Snow” Hammock

“Drove through Ghosts to Get Here” 65dasofstatic

“Distress” Perplexa

“The Antedelluvian Fire” Junius

“Rebuilding the Temple of Artemis” If Trees Could Talk

“Dust” Hidden Orchestra

“Inqub8tr” Bark Psychosis

“The Peter Criss Jazz” Don Caballero

“Carpe” Russian Circles