Post Rock/Post Metal/Math Rock Thread

moreitsythanyou wrote: Since I like sharing with people when I discover a cool new band, I must say that Cul de Sac is a great post-rock band.

Good band. What album did you heard from them?

schizoid_man77 wrote: Itsy, I saw that on your last fm, what are they like?

http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1347

They're one of the earliest bands in the post-rock genre and shows one of the many links between Krautrock and Post-rock. Their first albums were highly influenced by Can, but as time progressed they started to sound more and more to the Post-rock that we know of today.

chamberry wrote: moreitsythanyou wrote: Since I like sharing with people when I discover a cool new band, I must say that Cul de Sac is a great post-rock band. Good band. What album did you heard from them? schizoid_man77 wrote: Itsy, I saw that on your last fm, what are they like? http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=1347 They're one of the earliest bands in the post-rock genre and shows one of the many links between Krautrock and Post-rock. Their first albums were highly influenced by Can, but as time progressed they started to sound more and more to the Post-rock that we know of today.

It was Death of the Sun, an excellent album indeed.
Now I'm listening to Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - My Elixir, My Poison. I love the touch added by the monologues as well as the electronic beats mixed with great soundscapes.

So, I got down to the post rock roots this weekend and got some Slint and Tortoise. Both of them border math rock/avant garde. I've only given each one spin so I'll update on their progress with me.

keiser willhelm wrote: ive been wanting to give of natural history a listen for a while. let me know how it is, im gonna try and order it soon.

I like SGM a lot but prefer Unexpect myself.

Oh
my
God

I've just heard first two tracks from JOHNYTWENTYTHREE's latest album. I guess YNDI HALDA has to roll over

TheProgtologist wrote: I like SGM a lot but prefer Unexpect myself.

I think I prefer SGM in both music and live show but UneXpect are not to be underestimated

I actually bought "In a Flesh Aquarium" from the vocalist after their show two weeks ago
they put on a damned good show BTW


also to be relevant
Isis' "Panopticon" finally arrived in the mail today


Edited by heyitsthatguy - January 28 2008 at 17:36

Prog-jester wrote: chamberry wrote: Prog-jester wrote: Oh my God I've just heard first two tracks from JOHNYTWENTYTHREE's latest album. I guess YNDI HALDA has to roll over Does this means that my reviews are working? oh - they do, cham! need to get Sweek/The Pirate Ship Quintet/The Ascent Of Everest/Sickoakes now

Cool!

You can start off by downloading SICKOAKES - Wedding Rings & Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine  for FREE here:  www.archive.org/details/pls003





And while you're downloading it, why not read Clarke's review of it?  :

SICKOAKES — Wedding Rings & Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine
Review by clarke2001 (Moris Mateljan)
Prog Reviewer

The single "Wedding Rings & Bullets In The Same Golden Shrine" is a post rock epic, it last fifteen minutes, and it's worth downloading. Yes, this single is an internet release. You can download it for free! Apart from this, I'm not familiar with the band, but I'm glad I discovered it. The description of the song follows.

The song starts with simplistic, slow pattern slowly building up. Sounds familiar, eh? Yes, this is a typical post-rock template. The melody is nice, EVERYTHING is played through the delay effect ect ect ect ect, but it's...no it isn't...sorry, I need to gather myself up..I meant to say that delay effect is tastefully dozed. Well, true is, it is not used in tasteful amounts because, as I've said, there are loads of that effects. But somehow it doesn't overbear (or whatever is the word) the whole sound. There are some sounds on the top of it, close to hiss, and they are a bit too high in the mix, distracting from the listening of the rest. But that's because of the timbre rather than the delay. And it's only for the short time anyway. That melody (I rather call it a pattern) is basically just a four tones repeating on and on, but their arrangements and intervals are lovely. And they were chosen, obviously so, to be a root structure for the building chords. So far, it's lovely.

At the third minute that pattern that was built up and up stops and the song changes the pace: only one repeating tone on guitar, all the time. Okay, this is post-rock, let's see what will happen after 8 or 16 bars. Well, at the predictable moment another melody enters in, this one is a main melody, because repetitive tone will stay in the background, providing what is known in classical music as a "pedal tone" . A new melody have slightly Oriental/Spanish feel, it's hard to say since it is minimalistic and it provides some nice atmos and dissonances over the pedal tone. Although the initial start wasn't surprising, the melody itself is enjoyable.

The same melody will continue in the 8th minute, but this time everything stops, leaving us with the same melody painted on a fabric...yes, that is a padded timbre made of instruments (if there are guitars they are on E-bows), stringy, brassy and ethereal at the same time.

The drums kick in at the 10th minute, quite surprising, the melody continues in much faster tempo, this time sounding more tex-mex. The brass section builds up as the main theme becomes a dramatic theme for a golden-era western movie (my impression). For the first time, the song suits to its title (again just my impression).

And very soon, the sound delay grows again, the melody subtly changes and the whole song becomes more spacey. This is the grand finale - and my favourite part of the song. Great, great melody. Brass section building up in the background. Excellent atmosphere. And suddenly, the end. Some guitar feedback songs and then the end for good.

At the end of the day, it's a very good song. I'm not a post-rock fan, but I like it. Hence my recommendation to EVERYONE.

You can DOWNLOAD it for FREE on www.archive.org/details/pls003

Well, somebody might see this and pay attention. And review it and reccommend it. But on the first place, listen it and enjoy it.




^^^^ Couldn't agree more with that last paragraph.

Told ya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

schizoid_man77 wrote: In a flesh aquarium is blowing my mind right now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes because UneXpect is a fine example of the sounds of post-rock/post-metal