Soundtracks to the End of the World: The Post-Rock thread™

[harmless]

It appears that a prerequisite to being a post-rock band is to have song titles that sound like lines from a 15-year-old's poetry journal.

A 15-year-old child prodigy, in the case of Godspeed.

[BurtReynolds]

Some favorite song titles:

Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend
Motherfucker=Redeemer
I Love You, I’m Going To Blow Up Your School
The Distant & Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties
Suicide by Star
We Were Exploding Anyway
I Will Hammerpunch Your Clavical

[Soma.]

Some favorite song titles:

Stupid Prick Gets Chased By The Police And Loses His Slut Girlfriend
Motherfucker=Redeemer
I Love You, I’m Going To Blow Up Your School
The Distant & Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties
Suicide by Star
We Were Exploding Anyway
I Will Hammerpunch Your Clavical

If enjoying these makes me an introspective 15 year old then I don't wanna grow up.

[Jorge]

I was thinking more along the lines of "Tonight We Burn Like Stars That Never Die" and "They Move on Tracks of Never Ending Light" and "Fireflies and Empty Skies" and "Exploding My Heart Into the Ever Expanding Forever After".

[Soma.]

Oh, right on. I'm with you there.

[Norah]

I was thinking more along the lines of "Tonight We Burn Like Stars That Never Die" and "They Move on Tracks of Never Ending Light" and "Fireflies and Empty Skies" and "Exploding My Heart Into the Ever Expanding Forever After".

[super nintendo chalmers]

Hearts and thoughts they fade away.

[BurtReynolds]

if our lives became too long, would it add to our regret?

would be an ok one.

[harmless]

And I Want to Fall From the Stars Straight into your Arms.

[Heathen]

for old time's sake

[Heathen]

and for new time's sake

[mf]

I mostly enjoy the heavier post rock bands these days. Pelican, Russian Circles, EITS...but i dig some of the more mellow ones too...Mono, Godspeed, Mogwai...the big ones.

The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade. Don't get me wrong, i fucking love that formula when it's done well but it's hard to get excited about it when every band does it, and the dynamic changes become so predictable. I've listened to a bunch of the songs posted in this thread that were new to me and i found i could predict most of the dynamic changes almost to the beat. It's not a bad thing cause the music is great, it's just not compelling enough for me to want to listen to more.

[Heathen]

I mostly enjoy the heavier post rock bands these days. Pelican, Russian Circles, EITS...but i dig some of the more mellow ones too...Mono, Godspeed, Mogwai...the big ones.

The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade. Don't get me wrong, i fucking love that formula when it's done well but it's hard to get excited about it when every band does it, and the dynamic changes become so predictable. I've listened to a bunch of the songs posted in this thread that were new to me and i found i could predict most of the dynamic changes almost to the beat. It's not a bad thing cause the music is great, it's just not compelling enough for me to want to listen to more.

This is pretty much where I stand. That Yndi Halda album of which I posted a sample above is one of the last 'typical' post-rock albums I really got into. After that I moved on to either heavier, darker stuff or, to the opposite, less demonstrative things, and overall things that tend to favor atmosphere over buildups/climax.

[harmless]

I may as well mention Cult of Luna as one of my favourite post-metal / post-doom bands, if this thread extends to that.

[BurtReynolds]

I may as well mention Cult of Luna as one of my favourite post-metal / post-doom bands, if this thread extends to that.

it all gets kinda vague after awhile.

This song is pretty great and not strictly postrock sounding:

[zeb]

So no one had my back re: Slint?

[BurtReynolds]

god damn youtube tag! edit: ah there we go.

So no one had my back re: Slint?

yeah I like Slint.

[super nintendo chalmers]

god damn youtube tag! edit: ah there we go.

So no one had my back re: Slint?

yeah I like Slint.

Duh.

[Soma.]

Yeah it was one of those posts that merely warranted an IRL nod of the head. Soz.

[Birds in Hell]

So no one had my back re: Slint?

The thing about post rock --and a big part of why I kind of stopped listening to it-- is that most of it all sounds the same. The bands all seem to follow the same blueprint of slow build > mini crescendo > ambient decay > slow build > big crescendo > fade.

Very much this, though I never listened to much of this stuff to begin with. I used to listen to Mogwai a bit back in the day but they do nothing for me now. Like Heathen, things that trend towards a less bombastic, more textural sound are my preference.