Hammock. Then comes explosions in the sky, mogwai, Andrey fall, we lost the sea, and a lot more. Even some screamo bands like envy or post harcore like thursday do some good post rock music
a canadian band I didn’t hear mentioned that draws alot from post-rock is Broken Social Scene. it’s like the bare bones of post-rock tweaked for a more poppier and indie rock sound and it’s amazing. You Forgot It People is one of the most fun albums I have ever heard. their self-titled is really good too.
R/Indieheads has Spirit of Eden on their 80s Essentials list. It's where I first heard of them, and I've been a fan since that's first listen. So good!
@@dostwood5103 to be fair when Mark Hollis passed away the damn Grammy’s didn’t even mention him in their ‘in memory of’ tribute.. also not enough people talk about them or their impact on post rock. People know their biggest hit, but if not they know no doubts cover of it..
Thanks for taking the time to reply and, thanks for the suggestion. I have a long to-do list, so I can't promise a timeline on when. But, its well noted! Have a great Sunday!
Your video is incredible ! I though I knew post rock, but not that much apparently haha. This is the first video I watch from your channel, but I'll definitely go check more, you look like you know a lot and try to put your knowledge in short videos to be concise. Keep it up ! You clearly rock
We’re all the same, weirdos who are sad because we can’t find similar weirdos. I’ve been looking for the right drummer for 10 years and I’ve basically given up and started learning drums myself. It’s 2024 and the one man band is back on.
there’s this album called ‘The Ascension’ by Glenn Branca which started the No Wave, post-rock sub genre, and had a massive influence on Swans, especially in To Be Kind. it’s also really fucking good, have you heard of it?
Hi, Mogwai is also the name of the cute furry version of a gremlin. I'm pretty sure they took the name from the 80's movie, "Gremlins". However, in the movie the Mogwai was purchased in a Chinese mystic/magic shop. I always thought it was a made up name, now I know. Thank you for another wonderful way to spend 21:55 minutes
Hi Stella, this is another well crafted and enjoyable video from you. I wanted to ask if you are familiar with the Jeanette Leech book 'Fearless:The Making of Post-Rock', which provides a detailed overview of this strangely compelling music. Like yourself, the author looks to groups like The Velvet Underground, Can and the soundscapes of Brian Eno as key early influences and also makes connections with the New York downtown scene of the early 80s - Sonic Youth, Swans, Ut etc, describing these groups as taking the 'rock out of rock'. I have been lucky to see Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor live and the quiet to loud dynamic becomes even more pronounced in a live setting. The peaks were truly intense as are those on the extraordinary Slint album 'Spiderland'. I also share your fondness for The Sea and Cake whose music is both comforting and unusual at the same time! In any case this was a great video and check out the book if you haven't already.
Thanks for your comment and recs. I didn't know there is a book about post-rock! Should've read it before I made this vid! Am glad you enjoyed this vid and yes - The Sea and Cake are one of a kind!
color me impressed, you really did your homework. To me the masterpiees of the genre are Spiderland by Slint, Hex by Bark Psychosis and Ocean Songs by Dirty Three (the song deep waters in particular is incredible). Tortoise is great too
Great video! I love post-rock (GY!BE is my favorite band of all time) and everything that came out of it. I'm also super into ambient/drone/soundscapes, so there's a good overlap there. Makes me think on how a myriad of musicians using different instruments/techniques aim for a very specific type of atmosphere that is simultaneously reflexive and beautiful.
Wow, such a great list and context. You gave me a lot of bands to get to know! Thanks! If I might recommend something, there's a Brazilian instrumental band called "Labirinto" (Labyrinth) which sounds great! Their album Anatema is one of my all time favourites! Loved your video, Stella!
I think you should have emphasised way more on Labradford, as historically, they are on the same level as Tortoise, maybe even more. I bought all those records you mentioned when they were released (and did quite a few videos about some of those myself, hahaha), and I remember how in the record shops, Labradford was the catalyst of all of that, outside of the Simon Reynolds bubble. Also, as you mentioned Talk Talk extensively, O Rang deserves more than a mention. Early Post rock influence, as you mention This Heat, Dome deserves a huge mention. And of course, there are tons more, but we only have the day ^^
Mentioning Labradford is an achievement in itself. I love them - they have a very moody and special sound but historically... their sound was approximated within the ambient and ethereal wave frameworks and their existence was only a matter of time. People need Labradford albums. But do everyone? Not my contrabassist friend. She prefers Rachel's. That said, an average 4h high-budget documentary series would never gone to the lengths of mentioning, let alone fleshing out Labradford or .O.Rang. But don't worry - their legacies, however unpopular, are documented all over the internet. It's right there a couple RYM searches or Google searches away. This is why music nerds do all this cataloging stuff - essays can not cover everything and they can range from introductions (like this) to specifics (like a docuseries episode) to the catalogs, to the backrooms. Basically what I'm saying is, look at how much text I can write. Then measure the substance - it's not a lot. This is not super interesting for someone getting into post-rock. But for someone who is on the lookout for experiencing the music of bands like Labradford or .O.Rang? Life changing, with a very slim chance.
In the early 2000's I was listening to music that Included, "Godspeedyoublackemperor", "Mogwai", "Sigur Ros" "God is an Astronaut" and "Explosions in the sky". A band from that era who you missed is "Aereogramme". Their debut album "A story in white" is the greatest album I have ever heard. From all the music I've listened to over the years it still stands out highly over anything else as my favourite. The album uses a lot of dynamics, with its structure always developing and changing, and no element ever overstaying its welcome. The full album is only about 40mins long. I appreciate the sincere heavy moments along with the long tender beautiful comedowns. The listener is brought on a beautifully balanced and realized journey. It is an album of raw heart and there is subtle musicality everywhere. To get a sense of where their music stands compared to other post rock music, they land short of average in expansiveness and probably go above average on the heavier rock side(even though the tender quieter moments take up more of the album than the heavier moments which often come in angry and strong, sometimes with driving rhythms, sometimes with euphoric crescendos) . If you love post-rock do yourself a favour and listen to this album twice over and loud, the next time you have a car journey. Well done "Aereogramme". Thank you for the music and sorry you are so underrated and forgotten it seems.
Thanks for including some Chinese and Japanese post-rock bands. There are also quite a few good Korean post-rock bands: ruclips.net/p/PLZQ5edHiZsd2yf2_eZk_YQt7ifjRZXf66
I really enjoyed this video. Congratulations!! Of course, everyone has their own favorites and you cannot mention everyone, but you really did your research and did a fine good job!! I think your video can really help people discover more great stuff on their own. As far as I'm concerned, A.R. Kane, Seefeel and Bark Psychosis are just amazing. And thank you SO MUCH for giving some love to Disco Inferno, surely one of the greatest & most underrated bands of all time. Here are some amazing records (in my opinion) I would also like to mention: "Onomatopoeia" by Butterfly Child, "Houdini" by Long Fin Killie, "Electronic Sound Constructions" by Crescent, "Further" by Flying Saucer Attack, "The Cycles of Days and Seasons" by Hood, "Euphoria" by Insides, "Herd of Instinct" by Orang, "Calla" by Calla, "Quiet City" by Pan American, "Bunny" by Simon Scott and "Ink" by Zelienople. As far as more recent music goes, I would definitely recommend "Through Broken Summer" and "Weathering" by epic45 (such a wonderful and underrated band) as well as "Inside The Rose" and "Field of Reeds" (the latter being, perhaps, a more challenging listen, but a genuine and timeless masterpiece nonetheless imo) by These New Puritans, both of these albums being produced by Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis). I also encourage everyone to check out Jeanette Leech's book "Fearless" which was published in 2017. Thanks again for the video and keep up the good work!!
There are soooo many I didn't list. I can't. Not unless I do 10 hour videos, and, i don't think that's a winning format for a video essay with the title "A Brief History of....". I hop in my next vid (post-punk) I can touch on more topics that resonate with you. Thanks for taking the time reply tho, I do appreciate it.
Osamu Kitajima might belong on your list of seventies progenitors of "post-rock", but I have no idea how influential he was in Japan. His tune "Benzaiten" from 1974 seems to fit the bill.
i'd say The Door's "The End" is perhaps the first real full blown post-rock song, greatly influencing Swans and others as well as being very reminiscent of what would come in later like Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Swans, Mogwai, Sigur Rós, etc
I think prog rock, psyrock, krautrock, postrock and slowcore have a lot of similarities which make it hard to draw boundaries (i.e. long songs, many layers, instrumental passages, "trance-inducing" repetitions, experimentation etc., but I think the Doors are usually grouped as a psyrock/prog-rock band ^^
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm not going to make a promise on when I will get to it. My to-do list for this channel is already too much for me to handle on my own.
I think my introduction to post rock was Salaryman's eponymous debut and from there my love of all things post rock grew, but thank you for the video, I learnt a hell of lot and some future listening material.
Great video! I'd like to mention some awesome bands that not mentioned in the video: April Rain, Kafabindünya, Crows in The Rain, Krobak, Oiseaux-Tempête...
I appreciate when people acknowledge that most genres have flexible boundaries. Speaking of boundaries, I have a "by region" playlist and I do have some city-level plans lined-up for it. DC is a great suggestion, thank you. I think I also have a plan for a George Clinton episode somewhere in the channel to-do. I have a lot of time for JAMC and the other's you've mentioned. I'd like to do those treatments to my best ability. Thank you for the kind words and your reflections. Have a great day!
@@StellasEncounter If you love to classify the music as "by-region" -I should've understand that when I see the "post-rock in Asia" part of the video- I can suggest you some Turkish post-rock bands to meet another culture -as a Turk of course. -Kafabindünya ruclips.net/video/HahcOlu8B-4/видео.html -Change of Plans ruclips.net/video/F9FmVK0rC5o/видео.html -irtifakaybediyoruz! ruclips.net/video/U3MxXj-4jic/видео.html
I'm loving all of your videos. I just came here from your Archers of Loaf video and I feel like I *have* to recommend two particular post-rock albums that some good friends of mine played on... I'm from southeastern North Carolina, not too far from Chapel Hill where Archers of Loaf are from. I've seen MANY shows at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill! I thought you might like to hear some North Carolina post-rock! These bands are from the beach town Wilmington, North Carolina, about 2.5hrs drive from Chapel Hill. These albums are largely unknown outside of our area in southeastern North Carolina, but I'm absolutely serious when I say.. they're pivotal works, actual masterpieces of the genre to me. No kidding. This first album I'm going to recommend is very special to the people who know it and especially to people like myself who had the privilege of being able to see almost every show they ever played live. So, here they are: -The Title Ceremony - cheerful impressions upon arrival in the country (2005) -WAUL - 7 Cedars (2018) You can easily find both albums on Bandcamp or by Googling for them. The one and only The Title Ceremony record is a free download. No name your price, just completely free to download and stream. It's VERY influenced by Explosions in the Sky, but the entire social circle was also steeped in Godspeed, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think and Tortoise. The undisputed masterpiece of the album is 'Asia Major, Asia Minor' which tops out at just under 24 minutes. Trying to look at the album critically & separating my nostalgia and personal history with the band, I'd say the biggest complaint you could make about this album is that it maybe repeats some sections about 4 to 8 bars too many, but I think you could make similar criticisms of early Explosions in the Sky records as well. All in all, I wish the band had been bigger and Cheerful Impressions Upon Arrival In The Country had taken its rightful place next to Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever. I truly believe that's where it belongs. *shrug* WAUL is a newer band from the same town (Wilmington) that is probably already done making music at this point, unfortunately. Their lineup also features drummer Brandon Lamm from The Title Ceremony who was really a signature in that band. He's heavy on the cymbals during crescendos and he beats the drums harder & more passionately than anyone I've ever seen play drums. He brings the same energy to WAUL. The band is only 3 members, but the first time I heard them I could hardly believe the wall of sound they created with only guitar, bass & drums. I think a large part of this has to do with the bass which is so heavily distorted (the only word I can think to use is CRUNCHY!! which is probably not the correct usage, lol) that it sounds like a clean bass + distorted guitar layered into one instrument just via tuning & amplification. To my ears, anyway. They put out two REALLY great albums, but their second album 7 Cedars feels like a living organism of a record. I wouldn't dare belittle it by calling it a "concept album", but it's got a theme. It's in the woods. It's the feeling of being in the woods of North Carolina at night. It's got field recordings from those woods. The bugs, the wind in the trees, shooting off a few rounds in the middle of absolutely fucking nowhere... it's all there on the album. It was literally recorded live in a house in the woods by a good friend of the band using a mobile recording rig. And it sounds studio perfect. Brilliantly mixed & mastered, but *crucially* NOT TRACKED. The ENTIRE record is a SINGLE stem! That's the deal with the mobile rig. That's the limitation that had to be worked with and that's the kind of limitation that basically demands perfection. You get great sound, but you also get no tracking so you have to play the entire thing live as a band. The band rehearsed it enough to get every song on the record right in a single take. No time for flubs.. play it perfect, or else. And they did. It's INCREDIBLE. As far as style, it's a heavier take on post-rock, MAYBE closer to post-metal considering the bass's extreme distortion, but it vacillates between tastes of heavy guitar and these soaring melodic guitar tones that ring out these scale-y riffs that sound like they're echoing into the stratosphere. It's one of my favorite records of the entire past 10 years. Personal favorite song on the record: The Woods (of course). I hope anyone that sees this comment will check both of these records out. They're SO UNDERAPPRECIATED! PLEASE HELP FIX THAT! LOVE FROM NC, Y'ALL!
Apologies for the lag in my reply, there is a lot to unpack here. I'm really glad you've explored my channel a bit. I hope you continue to do so and continue to enjoy it. I have more in the works, and plans for a lot more also. I have had a look on YT and on Bandcamp for your friends, and I am impressed and did enjoy. I am more impressed given your story about laying down a recording in one go, that's incredibly hard to do. I have several outtakes of me sneezing, coughing, fumbling lines, AC units making too much noise, vehicles, children outside. So yeah, I completely understand the achievement. I'm not sure I am in a position to promote anybody at the minute. I will be announcing a discord server quite soon, if you and your friends wanted to join that and promote there, that might be useful. *sssh though, it's a secret right now* Thanks for taking the time reply reply thoughtfully, have a great weekend!
Thank you so much for mentioning Seefeel here... there first album was miles ahead of the pack, which they attribute to their inexperience at the time. They were learning how to record instruments and vocals and ended up recording an absolute masterpiece in Quique.
Thailand have a few bands worth a mention, Inspirative, Follows, Hope The Flowers and Desktop Error. I love Bugs of Phonon’s, A Sudden Rain from Taiwan(I think) as well. Very good video and informative, you tackle the subject well. I have my idea on post rock, post punk, dream pop and shoegaze and I think there is a crossover at certain points and it’s not worth getting hung up on getting the definition 100% right. Excellent video.
I thought I had replied to you earlier. I must have not hit send. I'm not super familiar with the music scene in Thailand, I'm keen to have a look and learn though, so thank you for the suggestions. I agree, the definitions don't stand the test of time very well, they change and adapt as they should to what was/is a fluid movement. I think they do serve well as a good starting point, and I think that role of facilitating discovery has value. Thank you for taking the time to comment. Have a great day!
This is super dense and incredibly helpful! Especially for me to connect the dots of influence that I ultimately draw in my own work as an experimental instrumental artist. I’ve heard of a lot of these bands before but never really listened aside from GY!BE, but they’re deeply intertwined with what I do and love (and a good friend of mine used to be in one of the bands mentioned here, lol) now I finally know where to start listening !!!
@@LunarMoth This Will Destroy You, they're from Texas. my friend goes by the name Black Taffy now and does atmospheric ambient screwed beats. the rest of the band is in a project called Disassembler and one runs a recording studio in dallas called Elmwood studios!
Nice video, Stella! I’m not sure if the therm post-rock is a useful word or its just a mixed bag. And I wrote an article about it for a newspaper back in 2001. 🙃 I have interviewed the Trans Am drummer and they preferred to be related to the therm space rock. It’s funny how the genre developed from noisy anoying experimental music to melow melodies that would fit as a soundtrack for an insurance company advertisement. But i’m happy the algorythm brought me here. The video has a lot of information and you could transmit and describe so well the post-rock dramatic landscape. I will have to try another deep dive in this cajón de sastre, balaio de gato, catch-all, mixed sac… i hope to see more videos like this. You are so cute! 🤩
Thanks! Trans Am do have some spacey/futuristic stuff...And cool of you to have interviewed them then! :0 And hahaha yeah post-rock could be like insurance com/elevator music sometimes. Glad you liked the video and have a great day! :)
There's a not-well documented post-rock in my Brazil, even though they can be unique and stretch out the formula. Namely, Hurtmold, Satanique Samba Trio, Macaco Bong, Tentrio...
It's amazing that you did this video. Thank you so much! One extraordinary band you didn't mention (though I know they haven't released music in a long while) is The Evpatoria Report. On the other hand, from the Asian side, I love that you mentioned World's End Girlfriend. Along Maybeshewill they are my most beautiful recent discovery.
I always thought Explosions in the Sky was one of the biggest post-rock bands of the last 20 years but maybe that's because i loved Friday Night Lights and got hooked. Gateway drug for me. BTW, i totally agree--taxonomies are fun and useful (for finding new music).
I have had a lot of comments about taxonomy and I felt I had to address it. I don't want to use the negative terms like gate-keeping.\ Regardless of mine or anyone person's frame of reference, having taxonomy does help with people with discovery because it is a common frame of reference that the search engines and streaming site use.
Daniel lanois and Brian Eno are really influential too. Two "rock" producers who basically went past rock. They are definitely more ambient but I think they are both worth mentioning.
You should check out Marc Ribot’s group, Ceramic Dog.. BTW, you need to watch the flick, Gremlins, to see how Mogwai is cute, but his offspring are demonic (that’s why his Chinese owner gave him the name..)
because i am elderly & loved The Cure many decades ago our 30yr old lad put me onto a tune by 64 Days of Static feat Robert Smith which then led me to discover wonderful music from Caspian to Godspeed & pg lost & the Swans album featuring a hopeful bunny & much more - which inspired my commenting potentially rather patronisingly to some pink Floyd listeners how there’s a diverse range of music available which must be more interesting than buying or hearing tired re issues of music they’d played a million times before. i was completely ignored. 🐢😁👍
I think you missed a very early entry into post-rock or art rock whatever you want to call it. The Residents and all the denizens of Ralph's Records such as Renaldo & the Loaf, Art Bears, Tuxedomoon, Snakefinger etc. The Residents were big on deconstructing rock. If you haven't heard them, check out the Resident's Commercial Album which has 40 one minute songs.
My all time favourite post-rock album is "Tales of the night forest " by Black Hill & Silent Island. I used to listen to it during moments of stress to ease my anxiety, especially when I was on a turbulent flight, or during the strangest and loneliest parts of lockdown. It was like dipping into a warm bath every time I heard the opening chords of "A wild river to take you home". I still dearly cherish it. Black Hill also has a ton of really wonderful albums, and they're sold in really reasonably-priced bundles on bandcamp. I just really wish there were physical copies of the album so I could enjoy the album art on a larger scale, or a poster, something. The night forest album has this beautiful illustration of a hunted deer laying on the forest floor, and it gives me chills.
Well researched as always - dipping into the true roots that a lot of people completely don't know existed. I expected to get all grumpy and go "nooooo!" and don my best keyboard warrior hat. I'd say the only missing thing is to miss the massive influence Pink Floyd has on the genre. We played with Silver Apples about 10 years ago, Simeon's setup was amazing and gentle man who had time to spend explaining all the random bits he had. Mogwai > Bunch of Gen Xers stole their name from the film Gremlins And Japan's "downy" is massively under-sung - they are brilliant "Meitei Freak"/"Drunken Freak" is monstrous! Difficult to imagine of the impact of that at the time > it was really something different when it hit. The UK band Japan, nominally labelled New Wave has distinct Post-Rock stylings, and going through any of the members post-band work will find an awful lot of things that are Post-Rock. Check out "Beginning to Melt". Popol Vuh is another of the Kraut-rock Neu circle to put on the list, especially the "Nosferatu" OST.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and glad you liked the video! It must have been a privileage/pleasure to play with Silver Apples then! He seems like such a gear geek, you must've learned a lot! I'm not terribly familiar with Japan so I'm gonna check them out later! :D
Got to see Cul De Sac a few times in the 1990s (they supposedly coined the term "post rock"). Boston had a vibrant Post Rock scene in the mid to late 90s. Great video.
Yes Dirty Three! So love that band, not sure about don caballero in this list as they are pure math but their side project the storm and stress for sure belongs on here. Love all your vids!
Thanks for brining up Mono. Love those guys. Some bits of trivia: one of the GYBE samples you referenced 'The sky was beautiful on fire' etc. Is from an unreleased movie and is voiced by Lee Marvin who was a famous Hollywood actor back in the day. Also Mogwai's name comes from the movie Gremlins - the mogwai are the cute fluffy version of the gremlins before they turn evil
Cool video! It's a good reminder that post-rock isn't just one thing, like 10+ minute sparse guitar instrumentals (ain't nothin' wrong with that) and it's more like the different ways bands took a new direction. Personally I don't think genres have to be limiting, unless you make it a box that stuff has to fit into, "that's not punk!!!" etc. That said, I didn't really have Stereolab in the same category as GY!BE, but now I see it! Just kinda taking the idea in opposite directions. Maybe they should form a crossover band
"In north-central Kansas, where woodlands are sparse and prairies expansive, rows of creamy-buff, brown-striped stone fence posts grace the landscape. These stately posts are shaped from the native rock known as Fencepost limestone, or simply post rock. Now tourist attractions, the posts are also regional trademarks that bespeak the resourcefulness of early Kansas settlers." from University Press of Kansas copy promoting the book LAND OF THE POST ROCK
I looked this up because I was skeptical. I am thoroughly impressed that there does indeed exist a book called the Land Of Post Rock. I should have stumbled across it during my research. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Apologies for my slow reply. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
you should check out the band Yoo Doo Right and their latest album A Murmur, Boundless to the East. they masterfully combine many aspects of different post-rock scenes and some post-punk to it
Here is the whole collection of post-rock on my PC that I collected from 2009 to 2016. And then I was very tired. There are more than 400 bands: ...And The Earth Swarmed With Them [The] Slowest Runner [In All The World] 8mm Orchestra 9M Lied 10 Waves Of You 52 Commercial Road 65daysofstatic 417.3 1099 A Nice Day For An Earthquake A Poor Man’s Memory A Sudden Burst Of Colour A Swarm Of The Sun A12 Administration Shock Him Aesthesys Afformance Album Leaf, The Alice In The Cities Alinda All Angels Gone All Shall Be Well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well) All These Fallen Trees Allstar Project, The Alpha du Centaure Amoria Ana Never Anathème And So I Watch You From Afar Anna And Chenbiao, The Appalaches April Or Nil April Rain aradia Archaique Smile Around The World In 80 Days Arsiesys As The Stars Fall Ascent Of Everest, The Ashes And Iron Astralia Atlantis Au Revoir Audiocaneat! Audiolepsia Audrey Fall Aurora Borealis Autumn Project, The Avalon Barrows Baulta Bear, The Storyteller Beast, Please Be Still Before And After Science Below A Silent Sky Besides Beware Of Safety Birds End, The Black Flak And The Nightmare Fighters Blackeye Blak Blueneck Böira Boulevard Nights Caldera (France) Caldera (Greece) Caspian Catacombe cataya Caves Of Steel Cecilia Eyes Celestial Wolves Chemtrail Chiaroscuro Ciempiés CIRRUS MINOR Citizens Of The Empire Cloud Anthems CODA Code I Codes In The Clouds Colaris Compass & Knife Co-Pilot Cosmonauts Day Crows In The Rain Cue damascus Damirah Daturah Dawn Chorus Ignites Day For Airstrikes dCoded Deadhorse deep in thought Degree Of Arc Destroyalldreamers Detroit Hills Deviant Devil Diometrix diometrix Distant Dream Do Make Say Think Do Not Be Surprised What Is Happening Dont Look Back Doomina Dorena Dreamend Drop Electric Dry River Echoes And Signals Echotide Edelveiss EF Eksi Ekso (ex On Fire) El lenguaje como obstáculo (aka ELCO) El Ten Eleven Empire Express En Plein Air End Of The Ocean, The Endless Dive ENO Enthralled Euryale (Kokomo & Terraformer) Even Gods Can Die - 2017 - Last Day Of Aries Eversham Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud Evpatoria Report, The Exilym Explosions In The Sky Fading Waves Far Behind The Sun FareWell Poetry Fargo Feather Child Feed Me To The Waves felperc (ex félperc) Five Seconds To Leave Fjord Flash The Readies Flies Are Spies From Hell Fly Pan Am (Le Fly Pan Am) Followed By Ghosts For A Minor Reflection Fourteen Nights At Sea Freedom Voyagers French Teen Idol Frondibus G.O.D Ghost Box Orchestra Giardini di Mirò Gifts From Enola GLACIERS Glittering Blackness, Fall Glorie Glowworm Go! 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#1 I'm a fan of Magritte #2 that's a great collection #3 ... #4 profit I can understand the being tired thing. I found that I do less collecting and more exploring these days. Thanks for taking the time to comment, its well received. Have a great day!
I've tried to like Mogwai, even to the extent of buying "Young Team" and "CODY"! And, it has to be said that Stuart Braithwaite writes a good autobiography! However, I keep coming back to the fanciful notion that "CODY" was originally entitled "CAFG" in honour of the chord sequence that seems to underly a large chunk of their songs 😉
Very cool, and thank you for the recommends. If you're a fan of Polvo i mentioned them in my Math-Rock vid, you might enjoy it. Thanks for taking the time to reply, have a great day!
I became aware of Post-Rock through a little song "Eskimo Kiss" by The Years of Rice and Salt - which I have come to realize through your video could be classified as a form of cresendo-core. The song doesn't pick up until 2 minutes in, but if you have patience, it is totally worth a full listen. Btw, your video's outro caught me off guard and had me laughing so hard 😂 in a good way.
Great walkthrough of an important genre, "Talk Talk" and "Slint" favorite bands from that period. Not mentioned on the list I would recommend "Flavor Crystals" (perhaps psychedelic rock is the right label here), the songs "Mirror Chop" and "Diamond Mine" are songs I revisit regularly.
Where would one put 4AD band Dif Juz in the spectrum of Post Rock? They were the first band that I made the connection between the sort of ambient post-punk influenced sound of Cocteau Twins and a sort of jazzy kind of performance with the steady beat of Krautrock. I always thought of them as the prototype for what I would call Post Rock in bands like Mogwai and Sigur Ros, though I almost never hear them mentioned.
Wow, amazing video, it encompass the basics and a bit more, I was very much into post rock around 10 years ago and you have reminded me of a lot of music I used to listen. Also I have started to dig the massive Stereolab discography this year and it is amazing! I came across your video randomly, but surely will check the one on Krautrock and the others, thanks a lot! 🙌
Name your fav post-rock bands here! 😁😁😁
Hammock. Then comes explosions in the sky, mogwai, Andrey fall, we lost the sea, and a lot more. Even some screamo bands like envy or post harcore like thursday do some good post rock music
Good shout on Hammock thank you!!
Godspeed
Mono, their first couple albums were my favorite
Gotta be Mono, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, God Is An Astroanut
Swans deserve a whole show themselves. Michael Gira, to me, is a genius.
Also kinda a jerk lol.
I like the swans & angels of light.
Both great live shows.
@@jonathancake5295what did he do?
God Damn the Sun!
jokes on you, i’m playing video games WHILE listening to this
Sneaky!
*sideye*
a canadian band I didn’t hear mentioned that draws alot from post-rock is Broken Social Scene. it’s like the bare bones of post-rock tweaked for a more poppier and indie rock sound and it’s amazing. You Forgot It People is one of the most fun albums I have ever heard. their self-titled is really good too.
Also love them, good shout!
Finally a BSS fan! Cheers from dagobah!
I'm into a lot of post-rock bands but I still learned a lot from this video. :) Gonna check out Seefeel and Bark Psychosis
Seefeel is one of the best to ever do it. Quique is such a unique and blissed out record
If you like seefeel I would say halica by sweet trip has a very similar sound
Bark Psychosis is one of the best most blissful bands I’ve heard. Hex hypnotizes me on each listen
Suggest good songs
Props for bringing up talk talk, they’re a criminally underrated band that deserves more acknowledgement
R/Indieheads has Spirit of Eden on their 80s Essentials list. It's where I first heard of them, and I've been a fan since that's first listen. So good!
I wouldn't really call Talk Talk underrated.
@@dostwood5103 to be fair when Mark Hollis passed away the damn Grammy’s didn’t even mention him in their ‘in memory of’ tribute.. also not enough people talk about them or their impact on post rock. People know their biggest hit, but if not they know no doubts cover of it..
Yeah, Laughing Stock is one of my all-time favorite albums!
Exactly! I've been into post rock for a long time and I just found out about them like a year ago
I love this video so much and I've only just started but those teletubbies got me
I have a plan to sneak Teletubbies into as many videos as possible
I'm glad you enjoyed. Have a great weekend!
i am a simple man. i see post rock, i click
It’s wonderful that, finally, someone on RUclips has referenced the Japanese group Boris. And lucidly explain what “post rock” is exactly.
Boris did a dope track for Confessions (2010)
But she didn't mention MONO
@@jeremyserwer2586 yeah she did. It's at the end
Screamo would be cool to hear about!
Thanks for taking the time to reply and, thanks for the suggestion. I have a long to-do list, so I can't promise a timeline on when. But, its well noted!
Have a great Sunday!
We Lost The Sea. Their album "Departure songs" is quintessential post rock. Its an album that every post rock fan should listen to
Your video is incredible ! I though I knew post rock, but not that much apparently haha. This is the first video I watch from your channel, but I'll definitely go check more, you look like you know a lot and try to put your knowledge in short videos to be concise.
Keep it up ! You clearly rock
Thanks for your support. Hope you enjoy them!
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How does this girl from halfway around the world know more about off-beat music than anyone in my zip code? I can't quite get enough of her.
Haha thanks. Take a guess if I have an easy time finding people in my zip code who like these bands?
We’re all the same, weirdos who are sad because we can’t find similar weirdos. I’ve been looking for the right drummer for 10 years and I’ve basically given up and started learning drums myself. It’s 2024 and the one man band is back on.
there’s this album called ‘The Ascension’ by Glenn Branca which started the No Wave, post-rock sub genre, and had a massive influence on Swans, especially in To Be Kind.
it’s also really fucking good, have you heard of it?
checking, I can really hear how Swans are influenced by them! So ahead of their time!
@@StellasEncounter indeed
I'll have to check it out. I have some mild exposure to the Swans.
Actually, No New York (1978 compilation) started the no wave genre, with Suicide and Theoretical Girls as major influences
@@melomano2571 yes you’re correct he didn’t start it, but he did have an influence on the sound of the time and place
The Dirty Three, that's Warren Ellis on violin! Some might know him from being in Nick Cave's band. 17:12
Thank you for explaining why I HATE RADIOHEAD
Hi, Mogwai is also the name of the cute furry version of a gremlin. I'm pretty sure they took the name from the 80's movie, "Gremlins". However, in the movie the Mogwai was purchased in a Chinese mystic/magic shop. I always thought it was a made up name, now I know.
Thank you for another wonderful way to spend 21:55 minutes
Such a QT of a toy. So evil! Such a great metaphor! I'm glad you enjoyed the 21:55 minutes (most skip out after 3-4 mins).
Hi Stella, this is another well crafted and enjoyable video from you. I wanted to ask if you are familiar with the Jeanette Leech book 'Fearless:The Making of Post-Rock', which provides a detailed overview of this strangely compelling music. Like yourself, the author looks to groups like The Velvet Underground, Can and the soundscapes of Brian Eno as key early influences and also makes connections with the New York downtown scene of the early 80s - Sonic Youth, Swans, Ut etc, describing these groups as taking the 'rock out of rock'. I have been lucky to see Mogwai and Godspeed You! Black Emperor live and the quiet to loud dynamic becomes even more pronounced in a live setting. The peaks were truly intense as are those on the extraordinary Slint album 'Spiderland'. I also share your fondness for The Sea and Cake whose music is both comforting and unusual at the same time! In any case this was a great video and check out the book if you haven't already.
Thanks for your comment and recs. I didn't know there is a book about post-rock! Should've read it before I made this vid! Am glad you enjoyed this vid and yes - The Sea and Cake are one of a kind!
@@StellasEncounteryou could also try John Rob’s book - Death to Trad Rock. And CHORCHAZADE!!!
color me impressed, you really did your homework. To me the masterpiees of the genre are Spiderland by Slint, Hex by Bark Psychosis and Ocean Songs by Dirty Three (the song deep waters in particular is incredible). Tortoise is great too
The 4AD records had a big influence on Post Rock. Check out No Motion by Dif Juz. Wonderful.
Great video! I love post-rock (GY!BE is my favorite band of all time) and everything that came out of it. I'm also super into ambient/drone/soundscapes, so there's a good overlap there. Makes me think on how a myriad of musicians using different instruments/techniques aim for a very specific type of atmosphere that is simultaneously reflexive and beautiful.
Shoegaze was/is important to post-rock.
Wow, such a great list and context. You gave me a lot of bands to get to know! Thanks!
If I might recommend something, there's a Brazilian instrumental band called "Labirinto" (Labyrinth) which sounds great! Their album Anatema is one of my all time favourites!
Loved your video, Stella!
I think you should have emphasised way more on Labradford, as historically, they are on the same level as Tortoise, maybe even more. I bought all those records you mentioned when they were released (and did quite a few videos about some of those myself, hahaha), and I remember how in the record shops, Labradford was the catalyst of all of that, outside of the Simon Reynolds bubble. Also, as you mentioned Talk Talk extensively, O Rang deserves more than a mention. Early Post rock influence, as you mention This Heat, Dome deserves a huge mention. And of course, there are tons more, but we only have the day ^^
Thanks for watching, and sharing your knowledge on this!
Andrés And between radiohead, the doors and labradford, which will be your choice and why?
@@sebastianalvapachas2041 not sure I understand what you mean : Labradford is the only post rock band of the bunch
Mentioning Labradford is an achievement in itself. I love them - they have a very moody and special sound but historically... their sound was approximated within the ambient and ethereal wave frameworks and their existence was only a matter of time. People need Labradford albums. But do everyone? Not my contrabassist friend. She prefers Rachel's.
That said, an average 4h high-budget documentary series would never gone to the lengths of mentioning, let alone fleshing out Labradford or .O.Rang. But don't worry - their legacies, however unpopular, are documented all over the internet. It's right there a couple RYM searches or Google searches away. This is why music nerds do all this cataloging stuff - essays can not cover everything and they can range from introductions (like this) to specifics (like a docuseries episode) to the catalogs, to the backrooms.
Basically what I'm saying is, look at how much text I can write. Then measure the substance - it's not a lot. This is not super interesting for someone getting into post-rock. But for someone who is on the lookout for experiencing the music of bands like Labradford or .O.Rang? Life changing, with a very slim chance.
Like, Cul De Sac was mentioned too? High standards much
My fav post-rock bands include: Bosch's with You, God was an Astronaut, and My Sleeping Karma...
In the early 2000's I was listening to music that Included, "Godspeedyoublackemperor", "Mogwai", "Sigur Ros" "God is an Astronaut" and "Explosions in the sky". A band from that era who you missed is "Aereogramme". Their debut album "A story in white" is the greatest album I have ever heard. From all the music I've listened to over the years it still stands out highly over anything else as my favourite. The album uses a lot of dynamics, with its structure always developing and changing, and no element ever overstaying its welcome. The full album is only about 40mins long. I appreciate the sincere heavy moments along with the long tender beautiful comedowns. The listener is brought on a beautifully balanced and realized journey. It is an album of raw heart and there is subtle musicality everywhere. To get a sense of where their music stands compared to other post rock music, they land short of average in expansiveness and probably go above average on the heavier rock side(even though the tender quieter moments take up more of the album than the heavier moments which often come in angry and strong, sometimes with driving rhythms, sometimes with euphoric crescendos) . If you love post-rock do yourself a favour and listen to this album twice over and loud, the next time you have a car journey. Well done "Aereogramme". Thank you for the music and sorry you are so underrated and forgotten it seems.
i adore this comment. Such a great job promoting what is one of my favorite albums and bands ever.
@@sunshaped Appreciate that. Thanks.
Your comment made me interested, I'll be sure to check out that album soon!
Tracks 5 through to 10 is flawless.
Thanks for including some Chinese and Japanese post-rock bands. There are also quite a few good Korean post-rock bands: ruclips.net/p/PLZQ5edHiZsd2yf2_eZk_YQt7ifjRZXf66
Very cool! Thanks for the suggestion. Have a great day!
I really enjoyed this video. Congratulations!! Of course, everyone has their own favorites and you cannot mention everyone, but you really did your research and did a fine good job!! I think your video can really help people discover more great stuff on their own. As far as I'm concerned, A.R. Kane, Seefeel and Bark Psychosis are just amazing. And thank you SO MUCH for giving some love to Disco Inferno, surely one of the greatest & most underrated bands of all time.
Here are some amazing records (in my opinion) I would also like to mention: "Onomatopoeia" by Butterfly Child, "Houdini" by Long Fin Killie, "Electronic Sound Constructions" by Crescent, "Further" by Flying Saucer Attack, "The Cycles of Days and Seasons" by Hood, "Euphoria" by Insides, "Herd of Instinct" by Orang, "Calla" by Calla, "Quiet City" by Pan American, "Bunny" by Simon Scott and "Ink" by Zelienople.
As far as more recent music goes, I would definitely recommend "Through Broken Summer" and "Weathering" by epic45 (such a wonderful and underrated band) as well as "Inside The Rose" and "Field of Reeds" (the latter being, perhaps, a more challenging listen, but a genuine and timeless masterpiece nonetheless imo) by These New Puritans, both of these albums being produced by Graham Sutton (Bark Psychosis).
I also encourage everyone to check out Jeanette Leech's book "Fearless" which was published in 2017.
Thanks again for the video and keep up the good work!!
Great overview. I love many of the later bands but the importance of Talk Talk can't be overstated.
Toe, an amazing PR band from japan. Seriously, this band is just fantastic!
you did not mention FUGAZI and all dischord records post rock bands
There are soooo many I didn't list. I can't. Not unless I do 10 hour videos, and, i don't think that's a winning format for a video essay with the title "A Brief History of....".
I hop in my next vid (post-punk) I can touch on more topics that resonate with you.
Thanks for taking the time reply tho, I do appreciate it.
Whoever is criticizing you saying music shouldn’t be analyzed the way you do it is out of their minds. Ignore those critics.
Hahah its okay! Thanks for the support! :)
Osamu Kitajima might belong on your list of seventies progenitors of "post-rock", but I have no idea how influential he was in Japan. His tune "Benzaiten" from 1974 seems to fit the bill.
Japanese band Mono are one of my favourites.
I'm glad to see more than one reply giving Mono some love, they are great!!
i'd say The Door's "The End" is perhaps the first real full blown post-rock song, greatly influencing Swans and others as well as being very reminiscent of what would come in later like Godspeed you! Black Emperor, Swans, Mogwai, Sigur Rós, etc
I think prog rock, psyrock, krautrock, postrock and slowcore have a lot of similarities which make it hard to draw boundaries (i.e. long songs, many layers, instrumental passages, "trance-inducing" repetitions, experimentation etc., but I think the Doors are usually grouped as a psyrock/prog-rock band ^^
Hey Stella, loved the video :)
Are you considering doing a video on Beach House one day?
Thanks for your suggestion. I'm not going to make a promise on when I will get to it. My to-do list for this channel is already too much for me to handle on my own.
By The End of Tonight.
I think my introduction to post rock was Salaryman's eponymous debut and from there my love of all things post rock grew, but thank you for the video, I learnt a hell of lot and some future listening material.
Great video! I'd like to mention some awesome bands that not mentioned in the video: April Rain, Kafabindünya, Crows in The Rain, Krobak, Oiseaux-Tempête...
I appreciate when people acknowledge that most genres have flexible boundaries.
Speaking of boundaries, I have a "by region" playlist and I do have some city-level plans lined-up for it. DC is a great suggestion, thank you. I think I also have a plan for a George Clinton episode somewhere in the channel to-do.
I have a lot of time for JAMC and the other's you've mentioned. I'd like to do those treatments to my best ability.
Thank you for the kind words and your reflections. Have a great day!
@@StellasEncounter If you love to classify the music as "by-region" -I should've understand that when I see the "post-rock in Asia" part of the video- I can suggest you some Turkish post-rock bands to meet another culture -as a Turk of course.
-Kafabindünya ruclips.net/video/HahcOlu8B-4/видео.html
-Change of Plans ruclips.net/video/F9FmVK0rC5o/видео.html
-irtifakaybediyoruz! ruclips.net/video/U3MxXj-4jic/видео.html
If you suicidal, don't listen to this genre
Please, if you or anyone you know know is in pain, please ask for help!
Do "Post-Hardcore" next.
I'm loving all of your videos. I just came here from your Archers of Loaf video and I feel like I *have* to recommend two particular post-rock albums that some good friends of mine played on... I'm from southeastern North Carolina, not too far from Chapel Hill where Archers of Loaf are from. I've seen MANY shows at the Cat's Cradle in Chapel Hill! I thought you might like to hear some North Carolina post-rock! These bands are from the beach town Wilmington, North Carolina, about 2.5hrs drive from Chapel Hill.
These albums are largely unknown outside of our area in southeastern North Carolina, but I'm absolutely serious when I say.. they're pivotal works, actual masterpieces of the genre to me. No kidding. This first album I'm going to recommend is very special to the people who know it and especially to people like myself who had the privilege of being able to see almost every show they ever played live.
So, here they are:
-The Title Ceremony - cheerful impressions upon arrival in the country (2005)
-WAUL - 7 Cedars (2018)
You can easily find both albums on Bandcamp or by Googling for them.
The one and only The Title Ceremony record is a free download. No name your price, just completely free to download and stream. It's VERY influenced by Explosions in the Sky, but the entire social circle was also steeped in Godspeed, Mogwai, Do Make Say Think and Tortoise. The undisputed masterpiece of the album is 'Asia Major, Asia Minor' which tops out at just under 24 minutes. Trying to look at the album critically & separating my nostalgia and personal history with the band, I'd say the biggest complaint you could make about this album is that it maybe repeats some sections about 4 to 8 bars too many, but I think you could make similar criticisms of early Explosions in the Sky records as well. All in all, I wish the band had been bigger and Cheerful Impressions Upon Arrival In The Country had taken its rightful place next to Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever. I truly believe that's where it belongs. *shrug*
WAUL is a newer band from the same town (Wilmington) that is probably already done making music at this point, unfortunately. Their lineup also features drummer Brandon Lamm from The Title Ceremony who was really a signature in that band. He's heavy on the cymbals during crescendos and he beats the drums harder & more passionately than anyone I've ever seen play drums. He brings the same energy to WAUL. The band is only 3 members, but the first time I heard them I could hardly believe the wall of sound they created with only guitar, bass & drums. I think a large part of this has to do with the bass which is so heavily distorted (the only word I can think to use is CRUNCHY!! which is probably not the correct usage, lol) that it sounds like a clean bass + distorted guitar layered into one instrument just via tuning & amplification. To my ears, anyway.
They put out two REALLY great albums, but their second album 7 Cedars feels like a living organism of a record. I wouldn't dare belittle it by calling it a "concept album", but it's got a theme. It's in the woods. It's the feeling of being in the woods of North Carolina at night. It's got field recordings from those woods. The bugs, the wind in the trees, shooting off a few rounds in the middle of absolutely fucking nowhere... it's all there on the album. It was literally recorded live in a house in the woods by a good friend of the band using a mobile recording rig. And it sounds studio perfect. Brilliantly mixed & mastered, but *crucially* NOT TRACKED. The ENTIRE record is a SINGLE stem! That's the deal with the mobile rig. That's the limitation that had to be worked with and that's the kind of limitation that basically demands perfection. You get great sound, but you also get no tracking so you have to play the entire thing live as a band. The band rehearsed it enough to get every song on the record right in a single take. No time for flubs.. play it perfect, or else. And they did. It's INCREDIBLE. As far as style, it's a heavier take on post-rock, MAYBE closer to post-metal considering the bass's extreme distortion, but it vacillates between tastes of heavy guitar and these soaring melodic guitar tones that ring out these scale-y riffs that sound like they're echoing into the stratosphere. It's one of my favorite records of the entire past 10 years. Personal favorite song on the record: The Woods (of course). I hope anyone that sees this comment will check both of these records out. They're SO UNDERAPPRECIATED! PLEASE HELP FIX THAT!
LOVE FROM NC, Y'ALL!
Apologies for the lag in my reply, there is a lot to unpack here.
I'm really glad you've explored my channel a bit. I hope you continue to do so and continue to enjoy it. I have more in the works, and plans for a lot more also.
I have had a look on YT and on Bandcamp for your friends, and I am impressed and did enjoy.
I am more impressed given your story about laying down a recording in one go, that's incredibly hard to do. I have several outtakes of me sneezing, coughing, fumbling lines, AC units making too much noise, vehicles, children outside. So yeah, I completely understand the achievement.
I'm not sure I am in a position to promote anybody at the minute. I will be announcing a discord server quite soon, if you and your friends wanted to join that and promote there, that might be useful. *sssh though, it's a secret right now*
Thanks for taking the time reply reply thoughtfully, have a great weekend!
also - great username!
Thank you so much for mentioning Seefeel here... there first album was miles ahead of the pack, which they attribute to their inexperience at the time. They were learning how to record instruments and vocals and ended up recording an absolute masterpiece in Quique.
Thailand have a few bands worth a mention, Inspirative, Follows, Hope The Flowers and Desktop Error. I love Bugs of Phonon’s, A Sudden Rain from Taiwan(I think) as well. Very good video and informative, you tackle the subject well. I have my idea on post rock, post punk, dream pop and shoegaze and I think there is a crossover at certain points and it’s not worth getting hung up on getting the definition 100% right. Excellent video.
I thought I had replied to you earlier. I must have not hit send.
I'm not super familiar with the music scene in Thailand, I'm keen to have a look and learn though, so thank you for the suggestions.
I agree, the definitions don't stand the test of time very well, they change and adapt as they should to what was/is a fluid movement. I think they do serve well as a good starting point, and I think that role of facilitating discovery has value.
Thank you for taking the time to comment.
Have a great day!
This is super dense and incredibly helpful! Especially for me to connect the dots of influence that I ultimately draw in my own work as an experimental instrumental artist. I’ve heard of a lot of these bands before but never really listened aside from GY!BE, but they’re deeply intertwined with what I do and love (and a good friend of mine used to be in one of the bands mentioned here, lol) now I finally know where to start listening !!!
Awesome! I'm glad you got a take away from it.
What band?
@@LunarMoth This Will Destroy You, they're from Texas. my friend goes by the name Black Taffy now and does atmospheric ambient screwed beats. the rest of the band is in a project called Disassembler and one runs a recording studio in dallas called Elmwood studios!
Going to see Godspeed You! Black Emperor next weekend! Can’t wait :)
Awesome, I hope you enjoy!
Nice video, Stella! I’m not sure if the therm post-rock is a useful word or its just a mixed bag. And I wrote an article about it for a newspaper back in 2001. 🙃 I have interviewed the Trans Am drummer and they preferred to be related to the therm space rock. It’s funny how the genre developed from noisy anoying experimental music to melow melodies that would fit as a soundtrack for an insurance company advertisement. But i’m happy the algorythm brought me here. The video has a lot of information and you could transmit and describe so well the post-rock dramatic landscape. I will have to try another deep dive in this cajón de sastre, balaio de gato, catch-all, mixed sac… i hope to see more videos like this. You are so cute! 🤩
Thanks! Trans Am do have some spacey/futuristic stuff...And cool of you to have interviewed them then! :0 And hahaha yeah post-rock could be like insurance com/elevator music sometimes. Glad you liked the video and have a great day! :)
There's a not-well documented post-rock in my Brazil, even though they can be unique and stretch out the formula. Namely, Hurtmold, Satanique Samba Trio, Macaco Bong, Tentrio...
Post-rock to me just sounds like downtempo or ambient electronica or even dream pop, shoegaze stuff.
It's amazing that you did this video. Thank you so much! One extraordinary band you didn't mention (though I know they haven't released music in a long while) is The Evpatoria Report. On the other hand, from the Asian side, I love that you mentioned World's End Girlfriend. Along Maybeshewill they are my most beautiful recent discovery.
I always thought Explosions in the Sky was one of the biggest post-rock bands of the last 20 years but maybe that's because i loved Friday Night Lights and got hooked. Gateway drug for me. BTW, i totally agree--taxonomies are fun and useful (for finding new music).
I have had a lot of comments about taxonomy and I felt I had to address it. I don't want to use the negative terms like gate-keeping.\ Regardless of mine or anyone person's frame of reference, having taxonomy does help with people with discovery because it is a common frame of reference that the search engines and streaming site use.
Daniel lanois and Brian Eno are really influential too. Two "rock" producers who basically went past rock. They are definitely more ambient but I think they are both
worth mentioning.
HELL YEAH. any discussion of experimental rock music without mention of This Heat would be a failure.
I've seen so many of the bands you've brought up. Thanks for the memories.
Also Dirty Three :)
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You should check out Marc Ribot’s group, Ceramic Dog.. BTW, you need to watch the flick, Gremlins, to see how Mogwai is cute, but his offspring are demonic (that’s why his Chinese owner gave him the name..)
Did she just blow past Slint and their influence on post-rock with just a name drop?! That is just criminal…
because i am elderly & loved The Cure many decades ago our 30yr old lad put me onto a tune by 64 Days of Static feat Robert Smith which then led me to discover wonderful music from Caspian to Godspeed & pg lost & the Swans album featuring a hopeful bunny & much more - which inspired my commenting potentially rather patronisingly to some pink Floyd listeners how there’s a diverse range of music available which must be more interesting than buying or hearing tired re issues of music they’d played a million times before.
i was completely ignored.
🐢😁👍
I think you missed a very early entry into post-rock or art rock whatever you want to call it. The Residents and all the denizens of Ralph's Records such as Renaldo & the Loaf, Art Bears, Tuxedomoon, Snakefinger etc. The Residents were big on deconstructing rock. If you haven't heard them, check out the Resident's Commercial Album which has 40 one minute songs.
My all time favourite post-rock album is "Tales of the night forest " by Black Hill & Silent Island. I used to listen to it during moments of stress to ease my anxiety, especially when I was on a turbulent flight, or during the strangest and loneliest parts of lockdown. It was like dipping into a warm bath every time I heard the opening chords of "A wild river to take you home". I still dearly cherish it. Black Hill also has a ton of really wonderful albums, and they're sold in really reasonably-priced bundles on bandcamp. I just really wish there were physical copies of the album so I could enjoy the album art on a larger scale, or a poster, something. The night forest album has this beautiful illustration of a hunted deer laying on the forest floor, and it gives me chills.
another awesome video, thank you. some other postrock 90s bands we love: bowery electric, magnog, hovercraft xoc&c
Maserati from Athens, Georgia, USA also had a few post rock like tunes. Thanks for the upload.
Glad to meet a like minded person. We are only few. I always wished for a wife who loved post rock, shoegaze and dreampop. Search is still on.
Polvo > Slint
I’m so happy that you mentioned Stereolab in this video! I’ve seen them 6 times in concert and they are so much better live then in studio.
Jelly! Best band ever!
Jambinai
you didnt mention any band for Amp Rep record company: helmet, unsane, hammerhead, ...
Well researched as always - dipping into the true roots that a lot of people completely don't know existed. I expected to get all grumpy and go "nooooo!" and don my best keyboard warrior hat.
I'd say the only missing thing is to miss the massive influence Pink Floyd has on the genre.
We played with Silver Apples about 10 years ago, Simeon's setup was amazing and gentle man who had time to spend explaining all the random bits he had.
Mogwai > Bunch of Gen Xers stole their name from the film Gremlins
And Japan's "downy" is massively under-sung - they are brilliant "Meitei Freak"/"Drunken Freak" is monstrous! Difficult to imagine of the impact of that at the time > it was really something different when it hit.
The UK band Japan, nominally labelled New Wave has distinct Post-Rock stylings, and going through any of the members post-band work will find an awful lot of things that are Post-Rock. Check out "Beginning to Melt".
Popol Vuh is another of the Kraut-rock Neu circle to put on the list, especially the "Nosferatu" OST.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and glad you liked the video! It must have been a privileage/pleasure to play with Silver Apples then! He seems like such a gear geek, you must've learned a lot! I'm not terribly familiar with Japan so I'm gonna check them out later! :D
@@StellasEncounter Japan's Nightporter is a good one ruclips.net/video/ZCHg5RitlDw/видео.html
If you dig Labradford check out Stars of the Lord, The Dead Texan and Windy & Carl.
Nice try fed, I haven't paid my taxes in 90 years and I don't plan on starting now.
Crows In The Rain [2019] Sorrow for an Unfinished Dream
Post rock 💩 ,SURF 💪 🎸🎼🌊⛔🎤 my playlist
My dream girlfriend 🥰😆
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Got to see Cul De Sac a few times in the 1990s (they supposedly coined the term "post rock"). Boston had a vibrant Post Rock scene in the mid to late 90s. Great video.
Slint é a melhor banda de rock de todos os tempos! Obrigado pelo vídeo! 💕
Yes Dirty Three! So love that band, not sure about don caballero in this list as they are pure math but their side project the storm and stress for sure belongs on here. Love all your vids!
I’d love to see her do a history of Progressive Rock or Space Rock.
Great video. I would have put sonic youth and fugazi somewhere in the timeline
My Dead Girlfriend is worth mentioning
Do DIY, unless you already did, i'll check in a minute.
我最爱香港的丹娜乐团，他们不只有post-rock，还有dream-pop,shoegaze
music for headphones going to and fro work while on train or bus !!!
Thanks for brining up Mono. Love those guys. Some bits of trivia: one of the GYBE samples you referenced 'The sky was beautiful on fire' etc. Is from an unreleased movie and is voiced by Lee Marvin who was a famous Hollywood actor back in the day. Also Mogwai's name comes from the movie Gremlins - the mogwai are the cute fluffy version of the gremlins before they turn evil
Cool video! It's a good reminder that post-rock isn't just one thing, like 10+ minute sparse guitar instrumentals (ain't nothin' wrong with that) and it's more like the different ways bands took a new direction. Personally I don't think genres have to be limiting, unless you make it a box that stuff has to fit into, "that's not punk!!!" etc. That said, I didn't really have Stereolab in the same category as GY!BE, but now I see it! Just kinda taking the idea in opposite directions. Maybe they should form a crossover band
Mono is another great example to include.
should Cocteau Twins be mentioned as an early influence, or maybe they were 'proto-shoegaze'? Great band wherever they sit on the tree...
agreed!
HOLY SHIT YOU MENTIONED RED KRAYOLA THANK YOU
"In north-central Kansas, where woodlands are sparse and prairies expansive, rows of creamy-buff, brown-striped stone fence posts grace the landscape. These stately posts are shaped from the native rock known as Fencepost limestone, or simply post rock. Now tourist attractions, the posts are also regional trademarks that bespeak the resourcefulness of early Kansas settlers." from University Press of Kansas copy promoting the book LAND OF THE POST ROCK
I looked this up because I was skeptical. I am thoroughly impressed that there does indeed exist a book called the Land Of Post Rock. I should have stumbled across it during my research. Thanks for taking the time to comment. Apologies for my slow reply. Enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Will you be covering the post-metal genre? (Pelican, Isis, Boris, Red Sparowes, Caspian, etc.)
I should have seen the entire video before commenting. Sorry.
@@scott12xu haha no worries. That's a good idea though!
you should check out the band Yoo Doo Right and their latest album A Murmur, Boundless to the East. they masterfully combine many aspects of different post-rock scenes and some post-punk to it
Cool, thank you for the suggestions!
Here is the whole collection of post-rock on my PC that I collected from 2009 to 2016. And then I was very tired. There are more than 400 bands:
...And The Earth Swarmed With Them
[The] Slowest Runner [In All The World]
8mm Orchestra
9M Lied
10 Waves Of You
52 Commercial Road
65daysofstatic
417.3
1099
A Nice Day For An Earthquake
A Poor Man’s Memory
A Sudden Burst Of Colour
A Swarm Of The Sun
A12
Administration Shock Him
Aesthesys
Afformance
Album Leaf, The
Alice In The Cities
Alinda
All Angels Gone
All Shall Be Well (and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well)
All These Fallen Trees
Allstar Project, The
Alpha du Centaure
Amoria
Ana Never
Anathème
And So I Watch You From Afar
Anna And Chenbiao, The
Appalaches
April Or Nil
April Rain
aradia
Archaique Smile
Around The World In 80 Days
Arsiesys
As The Stars Fall
Ascent Of Everest, The
Ashes And Iron
Astralia
Atlantis
Au Revoir
Audiocaneat!
Audiolepsia
Audrey Fall
Aurora Borealis
Autumn Project, The
Avalon
Barrows
Baulta
Bear, The Storyteller
Beast, Please Be Still
Before And After Science
Below A Silent Sky
Besides
Beware Of Safety
Birds End, The
Black Flak And The Nightmare Fighters
Blackeye
Blak
Blueneck
Böira
Boulevard Nights
Caldera (France)
Caldera (Greece)
Caspian
Catacombe
cataya
Caves Of Steel
Cecilia Eyes
Celestial Wolves
Chemtrail
Chiaroscuro
Ciempiés
CIRRUS MINOR
Citizens Of The Empire
Cloud Anthems
CODA
Code I
Codes In The Clouds
Colaris
Compass & Knife
Co-Pilot
Cosmonauts Day
Crows In The Rain
Cue
damascus
Damirah
Daturah
Dawn Chorus Ignites
Day For Airstrikes
dCoded
Deadhorse
deep in thought
Degree Of Arc
Destroyalldreamers
Detroit Hills
Deviant Devil
Diometrix
diometrix
Distant Dream
Do Make Say Think
Do Not Be Surprised What Is Happening
Dont Look Back
Doomina
Dorena
Dreamend
Drop Electric
Dry River
Echoes And Signals
Echotide
Edelveiss
EF
Eksi Ekso (ex On Fire)
El lenguaje como obstáculo (aka ELCO)
El Ten Eleven
Empire Express
En Plein Air
End Of The Ocean, The
Endless Dive
ENO
Enthralled
Euryale (Kokomo & Terraformer)
Even Gods Can Die - 2017 - Last Day Of Aries
Eversham
Every Silver Lining Has A Cloud
Evpatoria Report, The
Exilym
Explosions In The Sky
Fading Waves
Far Behind The Sun
FareWell Poetry
Fargo
Feather Child
Feed Me To The Waves
felperc (ex félperc)
Five Seconds To Leave
Fjord
Flash The Readies
Flies Are Spies From Hell
Fly Pan Am (Le Fly Pan Am)
Followed By Ghosts
For A Minor Reflection
Fourteen Nights At Sea
Freedom Voyagers
French Teen Idol
Frondibus
G.O.D
Ghost Box Orchestra
Giardini di Mirò
Gifts From Enola
GLACIERS
Glittering Blackness, Fall
Glorie
Glowworm
Go! Save The Hostages!
God Is An Astronaut
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Goodbye, Titan
Goonies Never Say Die
Gothenburg Address, The
Great Empty
Great Plains
Gregor Samsa
GrimLake
HarborLights
Hazards Of Swimming Naked
HELENA
Holoscene
I Am David Sparkle
i am no hero
I Am Sonic Rain
I Am The Architect
I Am Waiting For You Last Summer
I Hear Sirens
If These Trees Could Talk
iiah
iLiKETRAiNS
Imploding Stars
In Each Hand A Cutlass
In The Wake Of Giants
Incognita Sperans
indignu [lat.]
Industries Of The Blind
Info
Instant, The
I-O
Ioch
Ioseb
irtifakaybediyoruz!
Iteration
jakeL
Jakob
jeffk
Jet Plane
John Malkovitch!
Jordaan
Joy Wants Eternity
KABUKI KAISER
Kafabindünya
Kausal
Kerretta
Khaldera
Kitchen
Klever
Klimt Eastwood
Kokomo
kurt glentvein
Kwoon
Last Day Of Winter, The
Last Lungs
laura
Lednik
Leech
Legendary Skies
Lights & Motion
Lights At Sea
Lightship, The
Little Space Donkey
Living Under Drones
Locomotora
Long Distance Calling
Lost In Kiev
madebygrey
MAGMA WAVES
Magyar Posse
Maïak
Majora
Man Is Not A Bird
Man Mountain
MARDEMARMO
Maybeshewill
Maze
Meanwhile, Back In Communist Russia
MEMOIRS OF A SECRET EMPIRE
Meridiano de Zürich
Mesozoic
Microfilm
Milhaven
Mogwai
MØN
MONO
Mooncake
Moonlit Sailor
Movimientos Invisibles del Sol
Music For Money
My Education
My Grande Finale
My Sleeping Karma
Near Light
Nebraska
Neil On Impression
Nevermind The Name
New Geometry, The
No Clear Mind
No Respect For Beauty
Noorvik
Nothing Important Happened Today
Nyctalgia
Oak
Ocoai
Oh Hiroshima
OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE
Oktober People, The
Old Solar
Old World Vulture
One Hour Before The Trip
Oracles Always Lie
Orchid, The
Our Ceasing Voice
Our Last Hope Lost Hope
Our Stories
Overcolored
Overhead, The Albatross
Palefeather
Pan
Parhelia
peejmudd
Pershagen
Pertegò
pg.lost
P-HON
Pictures From Nadira
Pirate Ship Quintet, The
Planetariet
powder! go away
Prague
Pray For Sound
Rain Catalogue & Release The Long Ships (Ferenc Kapiller)
Random Monsters, The
Red Sparowes
Rendezvous Park
Reset To Zilch
Riding Alone For Thousands Of Miles
Rien
ruido-mm
Ruin!Ruins!
Rumour Cubes
Rusalka
Russian Circles
Rustles
SaaR
Sacrifice In Siberia
Sagor Som Leder Mot Slutet
Samuel Jackson Five, The
Saxon Shore
Seas Of Years
Sejd
set and setting
Seven Mile Journey, The
Shadow Universe
Shaking Sensations, The
Shapes Stars Make
She Sees
Ships Fly Up
Shipwreck Karpathos
Shipwrecks
Shy, Low
Sigur Rós
Silence Kit
Silence Of A Whisper, The
Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream
Sire
Sisters Of
Sky Flying By
Sleep Dealer
Sleep Design, The
Sleep Maps
Sleeping Bear
sleepmakeswaves
Sleepstream
Slowrun
So Far As I Know
Solkyri
Somewhere Inside Of Me
Sora Shima
Sparrows Swarm And Sing
Springfield
Spruce Trap
Spurv
Stars As Lights
Stavanger
Stubborn Tiny Lights Vs Clustering Darkness Forever OK
Summer Effect
Summer Fades Away
Sunlight Ascending
SWANSONA
Sweek
Swimming With Ghosts
Syberia
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster
Terraformer
Terronaut
The Beauty The World Makes Us Hope For
Then They Flew
There's A Light
This Cold Normandy
This Is Your Captain Speaking
This Makes Us Human
This Patch Of Sky
This Will Destroy You
Those Who Ride With Giants
Tides From Nebula
Tides Of Man
TiSer
To Be A High Powered Executive
Tortoise
TotorRo
Toundra
TrucitatE
Tuber
Tunturia
Two Winters Only
Tyler Krug
Union Trade, The
Unsigned Char - 2013 - Logos
Until Sunrise
Valsaland - 2015 - Fängelset
Verticals
Vy Pole
Wassermanns Fiebertraum
We Are Not Ghosts
We Came From The North
We Invented The Night
We Look Like Scholars
We Lost The Sea
We Stood Like Kings
we.own.the.sky
Whale Fall
what mad universe
What The Blood Revealed
When Clouds Collide
When The Sky Sleeps
Winchester Club, The
Winds With Hands
Workhouse, The
Yndi Halda
Босх С Тобой
Вечность.слушать.ветер.
Вне себя
Курс Кая
неботошнит
Слёзы смешны
Хвоя
чаикастерх
#1 I'm a fan of Magritte
#2 that's a great collection
#3 ...
#4 profit
I can understand the being tired thing. I found that I do less collecting and more exploring these days.
Thanks for taking the time to comment, its well received. Have a great day!
Does Dutch Uncles fit into this genre?
I've tried to like Mogwai, even to the extent of buying "Young Team" and "CODY"! And, it has to be said that Stuart Braithwaite writes a good autobiography! However, I keep coming back to the fanciful notion that "CODY" was originally entitled "CAFG" in honour of the chord sequence that seems to underly a large chunk of their songs 😉
Well said!
I highly recommend Low, Polvo, Command Module/Command Casual, and Bozart for Post-Rock enthusiasts.
Very cool, and thank you for the recommends.
If you're a fan of Polvo i mentioned them in my Math-Rock vid, you might enjoy it.
Thanks for taking the time to reply, have a great day!
@@StellasEncounter that’s right! Love Polvo, and any chance to mention them, I do LOL!
God Is An Astronaut + MONO ❣️
I have to thank John Peel for getting me into post-rock, playing Godspeed and Mogwai. RIP John
He was the best!
I became aware of Post-Rock through a little song "Eskimo Kiss" by The Years of Rice and Salt - which I have come to realize through your video could be classified as a form of cresendo-core.
The song doesn't pick up until 2 minutes in, but if you have patience, it is totally worth a full listen.
Btw, your video's outro caught me off guard and had me laughing so hard 😂 in a good way.
hahahaha glad it made you laugh!! :p
Great walkthrough of an important genre, "Talk Talk" and "Slint" favorite bands from that period. Not mentioned on the list I would recommend "Flavor Crystals" (perhaps psychedelic rock is the right label here), the songs "Mirror Chop" and "Diamond Mine" are songs I revisit regularly.
Where would one put 4AD band Dif Juz in the spectrum of Post Rock? They were the first band that I made the connection between the sort of ambient post-punk influenced sound of Cocteau Twins and a sort of jazzy kind of performance with the steady beat of Krautrock. I always thought of them as the prototype for what I would call Post Rock in bands like Mogwai and Sigur Ros, though I almost never hear them mentioned.
there is another comment mentioning Dif Juz, I should check them out! Thanks for your comment :)
Wow, amazing video, it encompass the basics and a bit more, I was very much into post rock around 10 years ago and you have reminded me of a lot of music I used to listen. Also I have started to dig the massive Stereolab discography this year and it is amazing! I came across your video randomly, but surely will check the one on Krautrock and the others, thanks a lot! 🙌
Thanks for your comment, glad you've found your way~! Hope you enjoy :)