Red Mosquito

Dear Lord, Lift your Skinny Fists... is so good.

65daysofstatic is pretty damn good, if you don't mind a little electronica thrown in. Their debut, The Fall of Math, is probably their best, but We Were Exploding Anyway is great too.



Also, I'm a huge We Were Promised Jetpacks fan.

harmless wrote:Also, I've spent a few years trying to get into Russian Circles, and concluded that I like the idea more often than I like the execution.

I thought I was the only one. They kinda drone on too much for me. Still, I do really like some of their songs. You might like God is an Astronaut. They are a little lighter and peppy sounding, and a little more electronic.

Sigur Ros came back in a big way for me with their last album. holy shit. Its been a good year for music.

BurtReynolds wrote:

harmless wrote:Also, I've spent a few years trying to get into Russian Circles, and concluded that I like the idea more often than I like the execution.

I thought I was the only one. They kinda drone on too much for me. Still, I do really like some of their songs. You might like God is an Astronaut. They are a little lighter and peppy sounding, and a little more electronic.

Hmm, really? Russian Circles drone on? That's not the feeling I'm getting from them. They're closer to post-metal than to post-rock.

Heathen wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

harmless wrote:Also, I've spent a few years trying to get into Russian Circles, and concluded that I like the idea more often than I like the execution.

I thought I was the only one. They kinda drone on too much for me. Still, I do really like some of their songs. You might like God is an Astronaut. They are a little lighter and peppy sounding, and a little more electronic.

Hmm, really? Russian Circles drone on? That's not the feeling I'm getting from them. They're closer to post-metal than to post-rock.

Not the best word. I mean they are just kinda LOUD ALL THE TIME AND CONSTANTLY MAKING NOISE. I prefer more peaks and valleys and monster crescendos.

turned2black wrote:Rank 'em!

1. Mogwai (head and shoulders above all bands in the universe)
2. Godspeed
3. Explosions in the Sky
4. Sigur Ros
5. God is an Astronaut
6. Balmoreah
7. Pelican
8. Caspian
9. This Will Destroy You
10. Russian Circles or Mono

The problem with Russian Circles for me is that their component parts just aren't very interesting. There are too many predictable chord structures, stereotypically easy drum parts... I just find it far too easy to predict where each song is going to go. Not with all of their songs, but with a lot of them. I like the idea of the more "classical movements" approach to rock music, but beyond that, I just find their actual approach to hard rock music itself fairly boring.

harmless wrote:The problem with Russian Circles for me is that their component parts just aren't very interesting. There are too many predictable chord structures, stereotypically easy drum parts... I just find it far too easy to predict where each song is going to go. Not with all of their songs, but with a lot of them. I like the idea of the more "classical movements" approach to rock music, but beyond that, I just find their actual approach to hard rock music itself fairly boring.

I'm pretty easy as far as predictability is concerned.

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BurtReynolds wrote:

harmless wrote:The problem with Russian Circles for me is that their component parts just aren't very interesting. There are too many predictable chord structures, stereotypically easy drum parts... I just find it far too easy to predict where each song is going to go. Not with all of their songs, but with a lot of them. I like the idea of the more "classical movements" approach to rock music, but beyond that, I just find their actual approach to hard rock music itself fairly boring.

I'm pretty easy as far as predictability is concerned.

Spoiler: show

Hey, mind your Tanners!

BurtReynolds wrote:

Heathen wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:

harmless wrote:Also, I've spent a few years trying to get into Russian Circles, and concluded that I like the idea more often than I like the execution.

I thought I was the only one. They kinda drone on too much for me. Still, I do really like some of their songs. You might like God is an Astronaut. They are a little lighter and peppy sounding, and a little more electronic.

Hmm, really? Russian Circles drone on? That's not the feeling I'm getting from them. They're closer to post-metal than to post-rock.

Not the best word. I mean they are just kinda LOUD ALL THE TIME AND CONSTANTLY MAKING NOISE. I prefer more peaks and valleys and monster crescendos.

Ah, I see. I disagree but I see.

BurtReynolds wrote:1. Mogwai (head and shoulders above all bands in the universe)

Yup.

I feel like Mogwai, Godspeed and Sigur Ros are the Holy (or Unholy) Trinity of post-rock. EITS is great at what they do, but they don't have much dexterity.

really liked their live show

Caspian and 65daysofstatic will be touring together in November.

http://www.65daysofstatic.com/65live/

I've listened to Godspeed twice today. I can't believe it took me this long.

Keep 'em coming folks. I'm digging on all of these.

Hammock is good and Sigur Ros-like.

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.

theplatypus wrote: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.

Without that it might as well be Tayler Swift.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boa ... ic/4295763