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Let's talk about Post Rock /mu/. Wikipedia defines it as
>a subgenre of rock music characterized by the influence and use of instruments commonly associated with rock, but using rhythms and "guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures" not traditionally found in rock.
Now bands such as Slint and Talk Talk are cited as being part of the First Wave of Post Rock succeeded by Second Wave Post Rock bands such as Tortoise and Mogwai. Already, you’ll notice there is a considerable distinction to be made as far as the respective sounds of the bands.
What really cluttered things up was the Third Wave. Bands like Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You etc. When third wave came about it was a fresh new sound. However, the genre quickly became over saturated filled with a plethora of bands that sounded the same. You know the type, long winded instrumentals with minimalistic guitars and “pretty” album covers full of tracks that start out slow before building up in to huge crescendos.
My question is, with the significant distinctions in sounds between all the “waves” what really constitutes as Post Rock anymore? Should we not be using a different term to classify bands that obviously sound nothing alike? And what do you believe to be good Post Rock albums, particularly as far as the Third Wave is concerned, albums that stand apart from the derivative, carbon copy Post Rock that seems to have become the norm.
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>different waves
>same genre
Are actually completely different genres.
Same with post-rock.
Somehow GY!BE, Talk Talk, Slint, Mogwai, Sigur Ros, These New Puritans, Long Fin Killie and Russian Circles are all the same genre. It makes no sense.
Same way Cap'n Jazz, American Football, Sunny Day Real Estate and Brand New are apparently emo, yet they sound nothing a like. Not one thing in common except shitty, angsty lyrics.
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