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Is anyone else a fan of the Chicago based post rock instrumental band?

I can't get enough!

I just bought a copy of Australasia and it is immense.

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post rock? did i miss something? is this the musical equivalent of postmodern?

post rock? did i miss something? is this the musical equivalent of postmodern?

do some research on the topic. it's been out there for awhile.

ro"but that don't mean I know what the fuck it is, i like noises that sound good"ach

"The term post-rock was coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994) to describe a sort of music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords."

Originally used to describe the music of such bands as Stereolab, Disco Inferno, Seefeel, Bark Psychosis and Pram, it spread out to be frequently used for all sorts of jazz- and Krautrock-influenced, instrumental, electronica-added music made after 1994. Bands from the early 1990s such as Slint, or earlier, such as Talk Talk were influential on this genre. As with many musical genres, the term is arguably inadequate: it is used for the music of Tortoise as well as that of Mogwai, two bands who have very little in common besides the fact that their music is largely instrumental." ( http://www.progarchives.com/subgenre.asp?style=32 )

There is also a category called "math-rock" that somehow includes the composer steve reich and yet is inspired by captain beefheart amongst others. I fail to see the connection.

p.s. There is a band named Rodan is Louisville. That is so dumb.

p.s. There is a band named Rodan is Louisville. That is so dumb.

huh? i know (and actually like) rodan from louisville. is the name dumb, or is the fact that they're from louisville dumb?

There is also a category called "math-rock" that somehow includes the composer steve reich and yet is inspired by captain beefheart amongst others. I fail to see the connection.

Math rock usually has odd time signatures, which switch after x amount of bars, it sounds quite unsettling. Dillenger Escape Plan could be described as math rock I suppose.

the name is dumb, especially in combination with the location.

hi, this is my band picasso, we're from el paso. we're baudelaire, from raleigh!

p.s. i recently discovered that a band named The Cabaret Voltaire exists. that out-pretentiouses every other band name ever.

wait. I was thinking Rodin.

oops.

ok, they're fine.

wait. I was thinking Rodin.

oops.

ok, they're fine.

maybe you should listen to them now, i did and I liked it... kinda spastic, but i like that.

the name is dumb, especially in combination with the location.

hi, this is my band picasso, we're from el paso. we're baudelaire, from raleigh!

p.s. i recently discovered that a band named The Cabaret Voltaire exists. that out-pretentiouses every other band name ever.

1. i'm a bit confused as to why the location the band is from makes the name especially dumb. a lot of the bands that came out of louisville in the 80s/90s were bad ass, fyi.
2. so does that mean that bands like camera obscura (photography), the velvet underground (book title), and art brut (outsider art) are equally dumb because of their names? i guess only uninspired names are good? go britney spears! (who, for all we know, was named after someone as well)
1. cabaret voltaire existed. they haven't been together since you were probably in grade school.
4. who are you, of all people, to call bands you've probably never heard of pretentious? assuming that bands from cities like louisville (slint), el paso (at the drive-in) and raleigh (whiskeytown) are dumb is -- what's that word again? oh yeah, pretentious.

dear dalya,

i think it is time for you to crawl in a hole for a while

k. thx. bye.

Cabaret Voltaire is an idiot band name because it is named after something that was idiot and pretentious in the first place. Tristan Tzara standing on stage in a robot/bird costume reciting sound-poems to Hugo Ball is pretentious and I'm pissed I ever had to learn about it, let alone be reminded of it when I'm at the cd store.

And as I said, I was thinking Rodin, not Rodan. Naming your band after a famous French sculptor (if they had actually done so) when you are a math rock band in Louisville, KY is silly and dumb in my opinion. I never said that that was pretentious, however. Nor did I say they are a bad band and that all bands outside of New York City should die in a fire.

Shauna, you don't have read every post on the forum.

nice.

Anyway, back to Pelican (sort of)... A friend gave me a copy of Enter by Russian Circles, and that is pretty good too.

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