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explosions in the sky, get their latest album.

TORTOISE: Millions now living will never die. First track (Djed) is excellent, with influences from krautrock to minimalism. Hard to get into at first listens, though. Very cool rhythmic ideas (in fact, almost the entire band can play percussion live). They're also good at creating atmospheres.

TNT album  from this band is even more popular,  it's also recommended

Edited by Mr Krinkle

Sigur Ros - Agaetis Byrjun, or however you spell that...

Mogwai - Happy Songs for Happy People

Red Sparrowes - At the Soundless Dawn, though this is a different and heavier breed of post-rock than GY!BE and Sigur ros type of stuff

Pelican - The Fire in Our Throats Will Beckon the Thaw, again a somewhat heavier version of post-rock, this one more like alt-metal, entirely instrumental, extremely powerful and very awesome.

A few more bands no one has mentioned yet:

Do Make Say Think - Their latest Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn is my favorite. Looser and jazzier than most post-rock bands.

Shalabi Effect - More psychedelic and jammy than other post-rockers; The Trial of St-Orange is their masterpiece imho, but they're all good.

Tanakh - Slow, moody, smoky post-rock with some vocals. Dieu Deiul is the one to go for. Gorgeous stuff.

Tarentel - Their early stuff is like Mogwai but a little more minimalistic, sometimes almost droney. Their debut From Bone to Satellite is still my favorite.

progreviews wrote: Do Make Say Think - Their latest Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn is my favorite. Looser and jazzier than most post-rock bands.

I agree about that last bit...not only are the horns really tense and
melodic, reminiscent of King Crimson and VanderGraaf Generator, IMO,
but the playing overall has a more improv-ed feel I think is really effective
for the post-rock aesthetic.

I also agree about A Silver Mt. Zion - Born intp Trouble is a really well
arranged album, very beautiful but gripping throughout. I think their third
full length "This is Our Punk Rock," Thee Broken Satellites Gather and
Sing, is not liked by the prog community because of the full-time use of
vocals, most of which are kind of drunken and off-key and sometimes
vaguely squealed- very soulful, IMO, but not prog-familiar. Nevertheless,
the songs on this album are also VERY well arranged, and instrumental
sections are well interspersed with the vocal sections to keep things
fresh. hypnotic post rock, I'd say, and very distinguishable from the
Godspeed! mold.

Explosions in the Sky is plenty energetic and plenty beautiful, but the lack
of instrumental textures besides familiar amplifier settings for redundant
riffs really cuts the shelf-life of this band as extended listen material.