Sweet. The post rock thread is open for business!
by the way, for all you out there who hate the name “post rock” (as one of my house mates responded: “I didn’t know rock was over .”) I heard a better term that I’ve been using in its place thats much more representative: Instrumental indy rock.
Anyways, I always consider Mogwai and Godspeed on opposite sides of the same track. Mogwai is more ROCK, and Godspeed is more instrumental. In my humble opinion “Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antenne Towards Heaven” is THE instrumental indy rock cd. Its more like listening to a 2 cd ballad.
Mogwai rocks it out, and I really dig happy songs for happy people, although my favorite downloaded songs are more along the lines of Ex-cowboy and “now your taken”.
I bought Slint spiderland, and tweez, and found that these two cds have nothing in common.
Spiderland is full of poetic orchestrated music, and tweez is like kinda like some weird power rock… You’re better off just downloading spiderland, theres only 5 songs, and these guys broke up long ago…
I’ve seen manitoba in concert, and that was pretty crazy with the 2 drummers, and the video they were playing too. Can’t say I’d buy a cd, but I think I’d see them again if they came back to philly.
I bought that introduction to nick drake cd (Why buy an “introduction to” cd? I don’t know what I was thinking). Very mellow depressing stuff, in a good way.
I have a strong interest in finding new and exciting music (f*** the radio), so thanks for posting all of these other bands that I’ve never heard of. I’ll definately check them out. Its hard to find a forum that has people willing to discuss good music, could it be that lucid dreamers have something else in common?
Four tet - Okay, this isn’t instrumental indy rock… its experimental… but if you’ve got an open mind, you should really dig this. Its my favorite band at the moment. I highly recommend the cd “Rounds”.
Also, what do you guys use to download this kind of music? I find Kazaa to be woefully inadequate at times…