Experimental/Post rock Appreciation Threa

Jimbo wrote: Trickster F. wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: I want to try out some Mono.Recommendations?   Try One More Step And You Die for the amazing Com (). Indeed. It's my favourite Mono album (haven't heard the debut though).

Indeed! A great album. I like it more than the follow up. I don't have their debut nor their new album, but I've heard alot of people talking about Mono's You Are There being one of the best albums of the year from the post-rock side of music. I'll be buying it with some christmas money.

To DamianC:

Sorry man. I don't know of a band that sounds like 65daysofstatic. If you find one then feel free to spread the word. I would like to hear it.

Trickster F. wrote: TheProgtologist wrote: I want to try out some Mono.Recommendations?   Try One More Step And You Die for the amazing Com ().

Indeed. It's my favourite Mono album (haven't heard the debut though).

TheProgtologist wrote: I want to try out some Mono.Recommendations?

This year's album is awesome ... try "Moonlight" or "The Flames Beyond the Cold Mountain":

http://www.myspace.com/monojapanrock


Edited by MikeEnRegalia - November 08 2006 at 10:46

I want to try out some Mono.Recommendations?

The only post-rock album I own is Sigur Ros' "Takk..." (indeed a 5 star album in my book and it got me into post rock) That said, any other post rock album I have has been sent to me by a friend or through the forum etc.

Some good starting places IMO (I'm no expert though):

Sigur Ros- Takk...- not quite as wispy as their previous effort, ( ) (still a good album) but I found it to be pretty accessible from first listen, especially "Gong" and "Hopipolla". Possibly the happiest album EVER. (and my favorite post-rock album)

Explosions in the Sky- The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place- first off, thanks to Dalezilla for sending me this one it is a fantastic, uplifting album, and the instrumentation seems to follow more of that of a stripped down, more rock-instrument based group (not soundwise, but it just doesn't have the mass orchestration other groups in the genre tend to have) . The songs seem to blur together almost as one piece, which I believe the band said was intentional

Godspeed You! Black Emperor-  Lift your Skinny Fists like Antennas to Heaven- this is a good starting place because it seems to be ever so slightly more musically structured and thought out than their debut, f#a# (infinity). Static is a song that particularly stands out to me. One of Godspeed's trademarks is their insane crescendos that start off from the most minimal (at the beginning) gradually gaining steam throughout the course of the song. Don't be disheartened if the beginning seems a little slow, the buildup is worth it.


And that's my two cents on that, hopefully I can get some post rock from more bands in the future (as in BUY them )

We Will Carry You Over The Mountains (2002)

Some of it took me by surprise, while some "remained" at expressing some composition and some emotion I knew long before, from other such programatic or versatile e/pr experiences.

I believe this album is very good; don't recall who exactly said that this debut album thrilled him more than the rest, but this one is a heck of a interesting job and it gives me the time clench to get to the others, as soon as possible.

Some Godspeed, some Explosions soft acoustics and some "Magyar Posse", a clear definition with which to interact and a new thing to take account of. New, as well as old-fashioned. (Even) Unique, as well as always there.

It's a music turned bit melodic and bit thematic, but that's in great colours and dynamic impressions. Experimental is sometimes there to shine and the chords are sometimes there to crack, if you get the idea or the distinction. With a clean flow and a sharp attention towards any loose moments, I can say that after the first two piece (one introductory in its entire and one in the clouds of a movement), every moment kept me in suspense and in that feeling I can only like (or, even better - cause it's a definitive plus if it happens - to capture and to rapture me).

Sound is familiar and conventional, but for me, that's the experimental/post I know and the accurate one I can like.

Interesting guitar manifest, though for the first time I heard it in perspective and not in the lead of every great breath (thinking of course Explosions). Alert percussions, in which I catched the rhythm and let myself driven away; sharp, effective and all that...

Pacific Ocean = best song and one great e/pr option, if it wouldn't be too much to consider.

Maybe it's just the mentioned visionary and illuminating debut, but that can only mean that the rest comes even more brilliant.

Solidarity huh??

as I've said on my...elaborated (sigh)...post, I've prepared a review for the un-reviewed till now debut EP of 65daysofstatic, stumble.stop.repeat. 

Two new bands will be added to the archives. Set Fire To Flames and World's End Girlfriend. One is another side proyect from the Godspeed family with a very dark sound like in the first ASMZ album, but with a more ambient and darker sound. The later band, is a very adventurous and "theatrical" one. It's a bit more experimental or avant-garde than your average post-rock band, but still being very melodic and with a movie soundtrack feel to their sound.

Get them while their hot.

OpethGuitarist wrote: @ rico by coffee i mean its energetic, lively, upbeat, etc. great to start your day with, both coffee and 65days

invigorating yes. I interpreted coffee as the loud bang. 65days are very heavy and they deal with that magnificently. I just wonder sometimes if the heavy "mash-up" isn't a sacrifice on the melodicity or luscious comprehension's side. One Time... treats best the style and the emotion. Fall Of Math is slightly too much of a hard treaty.