What the hell is "post rock"?

[Ellestin]

One recurring thing with those artists is: they craft extremely soothing music which reveals its full body when enjoyed extremely loud. While I can dig my Nasum to the fullest at bedroom volume level, Mono and the like just have to make the walls tremble. That doesn't define post-rock or whatever it's called, but it gives an idea of how it works. It's not meant to entertain as such, rather to print a panoramic view of whatever landscape on mind (and possibly flesh) through crashing waves of sound and increasing/decreasing dramatics. "Supersonic" has to be the closest adjective to nail my point, if that makes any sense?

 

[lizard]

Un-fair

Some people can tolerate this, and understand it, and play it, and all that jazz, but just don't want to listen to it.

I guess some of us where BORN! TO! ROCK!

and others where BORN! TO! BOBOURHEADSANDCONTEMPLATETHECOMPLEXTIMESIGNATURESPRESENTEDTOUSINANAVANTEGARDESTYLE!

I wasn't trying to be unfair, certainly not implying that tolerance = intelligence. I was saying that some people like a narrow niche in their music, and some roam further afield. the older I get, the more I still like the old stuff but I've added more colors to my palette

 

[lizard]

Ellestin: that makes sense.

 

[J.]

so if it isn't post-rock, that means all other bands use verse/chorus/verse, etc.... I don't listen to fucking Iron Maiden. Most death and black metal bands never use v/c/v/c/buildup/c.

 

[lizard]

true. I used an example that is not all-inclusive.

 

[DE]

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."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-rock

That's actually pretty interesting; I've liked post-rock for ages but never actually thought about why it's called post-rock.

 

[Jim LotFP]

"using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbres and textures rather than riffs and powerchords."

Now this is information I can use. I thank you.

Post-rock is a stupid name though.

 

[Demonspell]

I agree that post-rock as a definition is way too vague and problematic, besides indicating a break with traditional rock composition it leads nowhere. I've seen some of the more well-known bands in that genre described as "epic ambient" and "dynamic ambient rock", which is more descriptive but still plagued with inaccuracy, especially for the ones that use contrasts between noise and silence (but isn't that all of them, being a major calling card of the genre?) as their weapon.

<<and others where BORN! TO! BOBOURHEADSANDCONTEMPLATETHECOMPLEXTIMESIGNATURESP RESENTEDTOUSINANAVANTEGARDESTYLE!>>

With fucking pride! Life is short, art is eternal!