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    I don't know what to call Mum, but maybe they fit in an off-hand sort of way. More on "Finally We Are No One," then now I suppose. Now they have more of an animal-collective/shoegaze feel. Still: good band!
    • CommentAuthorPaulBurke
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    Yndi Halda are well worth checking out. 65daysofstatic are good but something else entirely live, an absolute must see.

    Also, Laura's 'Radio Swan Is Down' is a good album.

    Listening to Amazon samples will get you know where in this genre. It's kinda hard to find the stuff you like without first wading through long albums that you hate. You can't give up on a "dull" post rock song after five minutes because it might well mutate into just what you're looking for.
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    Godspeed seem to take that quiet/loud monumental instrumental stuff further than others , and I don't think anyone's topped them. Music that can change the weather. For me, an earlier record that apparently sets the template , and is still glorious , frightening and tender is Slint's Spiderland. It lives up to all the music journo cliches and ravening praise that bearded indie fans have drooled at me for years.
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    i think a silver mt zion have taken godspeed way way further and to a whole new level, their album coming out in march is giong to be STUNNING and will blow the minds off people.

    i forced my brother, begrugingly, to one of their recent shows, he really didn't want to go, and afterwards he said that 'that is exactly what music should be like'... which sums it up amazingly.
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    I can't stand SMZ since Efrim decided he should sing. I actually walked out of a show a couple of years ago just because I could bear his whiny noise no longer.
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      CommentAuthorJaredRules
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    While I still like Godspeed better, A Zilver Mount Zion is pretty great. God Bless Our Dead Marines is epic, and seeing that song live was one of my favorite live moments of 2006. Even with the obnoxious drunk guy singing along.
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    Godspeed are by far the pinnacle of the post-rock form as it has been for the last eight or so years. Post-rock used to involve (before the genre was solidified somewhat by the sucess of mogwai) bands like add n to x, broadcast, pusherman, tortoise, trans am, low and all kinds of other (at the time) near unclassifiable bands (by the press at least). It was a term similar to "all of the above" I suppose.

    The band that seemed to start all this malarkey were Slint. Specifically their album spiderland which is a moody, fragile, twisted and humane heart-break of an album. Forget your explosions in the sky and mono and go and taste it youself. This is post-rock at it's primordial best where as Godspeed is it's most heavenly reaches.

    For maths-core you should try out rodan/june of 44, who were also from the same town as slint. It leans towards the rock-side of things but as their career progressed they ended up in some pretty messed up places.
    • CommentAuthoreggzoomin
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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      CommentAuthorRandy74
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    What about older bands like The Fall, anything with Westerberg, Ween, Gang of Four, Mission Of Burma...

    I guess they are considered post, forgive me as thats about as new as the music i listen to gets...
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      CommentAuthorJaredRules
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    Randy I think you are thinking "Post-Punk"
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    whoa, offtandiscord, is there more than one bossk? i just saw A bossk on friday night- they are from phoenix and are pretty mathy. i would be amazed if people outside of here had already heard them, as i think they have only played like two or three shows.
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      CommentAuthorm1k3y
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    can i add The Winter Pageant and God is An Astronaut to the list...?
    two of my fave of the lesser known post-rock bands
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    Yeah, that's post-punk, Randy. I strongly recommend the book RIP IT UP by Simon Reynolds on the subject, if you're interested.
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      CommentAuthorJaredRules
    • CommentTimeJan 24th 2008
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    interestingly enough, while I like a few post-punk bands (motherfuckin Mission of Burma) as an overall sound/style, it one of the least interesting to me.
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    Post-punk was a broad church.
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    @joe, must be a different bossk, these guys are local English lads.

    http://www.myspace.com/bossk
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    @Warren
    The first half of Rip it Up was where the meat was. Can't stand ABC after reading it.

    @Joe.Distort
    There is an English band called Bossk, too (at least I don't think they're the same) They have a more Isis/Neurosis/Pelican approach - crushingly heavy.
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    this bossk is more fugazi/east coast crashing offkilter-ness. i will check out this other one out of curiousity. i like some isis, a few albums back, and they were a wall of skull beating when i saw em with converge.
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    I'm smack in the middle of RIP IT UP AND START AGAIN, and it's terrific.
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      CommentAuthorARES
    • CommentTimeJan 25th 2008
     (618.40)
    No mention of Kayo Dot yet, but I would call them post-rock, while doing many different things than usually expected from this lot. I've once described them as classical music as written for a rock band, and I stick to that. Amazing live show as well.
    I'd also recommend you check out Swans' Soundtracks for the Blind even though that's stretching the definition, but who cares really?
    I wouldn't consider Swans post-rock, but yes, this album fits. It's also freakin' amazing, and some days is my favourite album by them, although picking just one Swans to love and to cherish is quite the foolish endeavour indeed.

    Glad to see some love for The Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra and Tra-la-la Band, I've always appreciated Godspeed You! Black Emperor but absolute adore SMZ, especially after seeing them live. Mindblowing, one of the best concerts I've ever witnessed. I love Efrim's voice by the way. He can't sing, but neither could Quorthon from Bathory, yet both of them deliver(ed) some of the most passionate words ever spoken.

    From the more metal side of the genre, ISIS, Neurosis, and especially Old Man Gloom are my favourites. In fact I think in 50 years Old Man Gloom will be called The Greatest Band in History, Man. Either that or ignored by even more people that do just that today. Whichever.

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