belethor wrote:
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belethor wrote:
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deathkvlt wrote:
belethor wrote:
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belethor wrote:
GYBE! Lift Your Skinny Fists...
awesome manI find this kind of (almost) orchestral post rock to be very suitable for BMers... if you need more bands just ask Daniel, Misha or your humble servant...
I just recently discovered them, I like it quite a lot.
Any suggestions for further listening?
Sigur Rós (my fav band at the moment)
Explotions In The Sky
A Silver Mt. Zion
Pelican
Red Sparowes
Mogwai
Jesu
You can start there my dear friend.
Good advice Master D ! but let me add some more:
The Cancer Conspiracy (
highly recommanded :
the audio medium, awesome album, almost up to any of the last two GY!BE albums))
Pele (recommanded :
enemies, smooth yet technical)
The Mercury Program (recommanded :
all suits began to fall off &
a data learn the language, smooth poth rock too, melodic geniuses imo)
Don Caballero (recommanded :
what burns never returns, awesome drumming, could be define as mathy chaoticpost rock)
Labradford (recommanded :
mi media naranja, almost ambient)
Rumah Sakit (recommanded :
Obscured By Clowns, the jazziest, more chaotic side of post rock)
more names might come back to me soon but since it 6:20am in Paris... I did the best I could...
The night is still young here in the states, and full of promise.
I noticed you were downloading that GYBE from me
Glad you liked it! I noticed that Stefan and Daniel already named some great bands (and some crap ;) ), but I'd like to add these:
65DaysOfStatic - The Fall Of Math & One Time For All Time
Mountain Men Anonymous - Krkonose
Men Or Astromen - A Spectrum Of Infinite Scale
As The Poets Affirm... - any album
Dredg - Catch Without Arms
Grails - The Burden Of Hope
Mono - Walking Cloud And Deep Red Sky, Flag Fluttered And The Sun Shined
The Antarcticans - S/t
Mammoeten Op Kousevoeten - any album
People For Audio - any album
Pictures Of An Empty Wall - anything
Aereogramme - Sleep And Release
Kátai Tamás - Erika Szobája (not really post-rock, more like post-folk, but highly recommendable)
and to end the list, the best thing that has ever happened to music: Vágtázó Halottkémek, the Galloping Coroners in translation. Hungarian post-folk with some metal ingredients, very hypnotic and trancelike, almost ritual in a way. Anything by this band, from the 1988 Debut to the 2000 closingpiece, is outstanding. I hope you don't mind the extremely wild screams and howls of the bandfronting astronomer Attila Grandpierre, I love them but some people seem to mind.
Thanks man... thats an awful lot of bands to choose from. What would the best two to start with?
I think it's easiest to do a bit of every style, here's a little list of postrock to start with:
1.
Godspeed You Black Emperor, you already know this, so it's not necessary to check out the bands that sound like them: Red Sparowes, A Silver Mount Zion, and A LOT more. This band covers a large part of the genre.
2.
Pelican -
The Fire In Our Throats Will Beckon The Thaw, this is what you get with a little bit of doom/drone added to the mix, again, there are more bands in this genre that you can check out afterwards, I think it's best to taste a little of everything first though.
3.
65DaysOfStatic -
One Time For All Time, electronica is often used in post-rock, and some times, like in this and some other bands, in a manner you are unlikely to have encountered before. Highly twisted rythms with sick time signatures and beats that fly everywhere, normal drums played through them, recorded per sampling and added in different layers in explosive mixes again. Highly interesting, this was my favorite 2005 album. Against what you would expect, this album contains a huge lot of emotion, it reminded me of Draugar in a way, for that too created a sense of beauty in complete uglyness. The effect is much stronger in 65DoS anyways.
4.
Aereogramme -
Sleep And Release, this is a more conventional take on rock, but still with the weird intervention of post elements. Some parts will remind you of bands like Coldplay, while still remaining postrock. There is a lot of post-rock out there with more conventional songs and vocals, this being one of the many bands playing it.
5.
Labradford -
Mi Media Naranja, the more ambient take on post-rock, needs no further explaination I think.
6.
Rumah Sakit -
Obscured By Clowns, like Stefan said, the jazzy face of the genre
7.
As The Poets Affirm -
I Want To Tell My Heart To You. But I Cannot Say English, this here, because it's a more laid back and lounge style, with elements from lots of different genres. A lot of postrock borrows heavily from all kinds of different genres and I think I hadn't included something alike in the list.
Now there is a lot of music inbetween those, which contains some brilliant bands, but these are some of the extremes to make you understand the width and length of the genre.
Now here is some Hungarian stuff that I want you to hear:
8.
Kátai Tamás -
Erika Szobája, because it's simply beautiful and warm in a rare way. Don't be scared off by some of the songs, I assure you that the others are able to envoke the feeling of flying over widely streched mountains in the body of a bird.
9.
Vágtázó Halottkémek, anything by them, I own all their albums and you can't go wrong with them. They are a rarity, sounds like a more experimental Hawkwind, and just posses the hypnotizing trancelike power of a raindance. Crazy howls are only one thing weird about the band, there is always more, such as the songstructures. A lot of the music is played directly from the heart and the live album shows a 17 minute long masterpiece of post-folk that is completely improvised. This band formed in 1977, and split up in 2000. Their lead singer, a famous astronomer, formed a new project though, and I'm anxiously awaiting their first output. When listening to The Galloping Coroners, also mind how some songs seem to collapse under their own speed, everything is building up like a huge crescendo to fall into chaos, and rise again, like it used more often in music from those countries. To illustrate their quallity, here's a pic that I think says enough of their artistic value:
anyay, I have to second my BM friends here... awesome band ! 