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massey ferguson posted:Speaking of GYBE-y, any opinions on the Swans album? I'm pretty impressed. Definitely one of the best post rock albums I've heard in a long time. The world isn't ready for that album. I wasn't ready.
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chunkey posted:Indonesian post-rock? Yes please. This is really good and their album seems to be free on their website.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:The Sirens Sound would be a lot more useful if it wasn't so loving poorly designed. I took them off my RSS for two reasons, a) they posted way too much poo poo for me to keep up with (and I had to check aaaaall of it because it was so frequently decent), and b) their lovely bloated site kept crashing my browser. Mostly the second one. God, they must have about the highest disparity between design and content of any site. nthing the love for Thousands of Miles, good stuff, very moody.
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Blue Screen Error posted:This is really good and their album seems to be free on their website. Excellent catch sir. I have really been enjoying this for the last two days.
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A preview track from Hammock's upcoming new album is available on their bandcamp page.
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I just checked out afterthepostrock for the first time in a while and well thats the end of that websites forum. After the death of that and TSB what are the best sites to keep up with post-rock news now? I may just rely on this thread from now on.
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Well, this thread has given me quite a lot of stuff to check out so thank you. Hope I'm not just reposting stuff but I came across Marriages somewhere in my Youtube travels. Side project of some Red Sparowes members. Put out an EP in May. I like it, but I like a lot of things so that is not saying much. Probably my favorite 2 tracks Ten Tiny Fingers Body of Shade
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massey ferguson posted:Speaking of GYBE-y, any opinions on the Swans album? That album was nothing like GY!BE.  Nevertheless, it was pretty... special. Wasn't sure what to expect by reading some descriptions of the band and the album, and after a single listen, I'm still not sure what to say. Definitely a strange and intense album, but in a good way.
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MisterFuzzles posted:Well, this thread has given me quite a lot of stuff to check out so thank you. Good catch, I don't think that was posted here. I hated it on the first listen but I went back and I'm warming up to it. I really like Ten Tiny Fingers.
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The Made Up Stanleys put up their first EP last month and it's fantastic. I first heard of them when they described themselves as a mixture of ASIWYFA, Fang Island and Adebisi Shank and that seems to me to be pretty drat accurate!AccountSupervisor posted:Just discovered an old 2007 EP from ASIWYFA that probably has some of their best tracks on it. I wish I would have known this before I saw them live, they probably would have gotten a kick out of somebody requesting this song. They also had another EP out before that one that was more of a collaboration with other NI artists providing vocals(!). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QoJSm3hCVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMy9N_KdV0g Some great riffage at 5 minutes in. There's some good stuff on there and definitely some glimpses of the awesomeness to come.
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Toundra - III is out now: http://toundra.bandcamp.com/album/iii
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polynominal-c posted:Toundra - III is out now: http://toundra.bandcamp.com/album/iii loving awesome, thanks. "Magreb" from II is easily one of my favourite post-rock songs ever.
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Jan posted:That album was nothing like GY!BE. Yeah I'm echoing the not sounding anything like GY!BE. The only band I've ever heard that I'll say sounds like GY!BE is Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles. Anyways, on the subject of Seer, it's a hard album to listen to. The world isn't ready for that. I wasn't ready.
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polynominal-c posted:Toundra - III is out now: http://toundra.bandcamp.com/album/iii
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Pitchfork had a wonderful line about the new Mono album todayquote:the music doesn't develop, darken, or tell a story so much as it expands and deflates like a balloon Sums up a lot of the mediocre "hope we land ourselves on a car advert" study music that seems to make up the genre these days.
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I have to admit, I get kind of bored with For My Parents once Dream Odyssey finishes. The last two don't feel much different from the first two, there's only so far swelling and violins can get it I guess. I hope they eventually get back to some loud stuff in the vein of COM(?) and Yearning.
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For My Parents was good on first listen, but it's not an album I foresee myself listening to over and over again like Hymn to the Immortal Wind or You Are There. While all the tracks were beautiful, none really stood out to me all that much. Oh well, I'm still very excited about seeing them for the 3rd time next month!
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Yeah. It felt short to me, probably because the last two tracks are nice, but quite tame. I can't even remember their names even after listening to the album a dozen times now... Says a lot about them. Legend and Dream Odyssey really stand out as the memorable tracks of the album, and even then I always get the feeling that they start with the same melody, except that Dream Odyssey progresses a bit longer on the melody. But then I'm pretty bad at spotting repetitions -- it took me years to even notice that on Dark Side of the Moon, Time ends with a reprise of Breathe.  Also, I think I realised what The Seer reminds me of. It's like Neurosis around Times of Grace, with less hardcore screaming. Which is awesome, in a way, because it makes the few lyrics on The Seer more ominous than anything Neurosis has done. I'm sure there's an ongoing metaphor on said lyrics, but my mind was too busy being simultaneously high and blown all over the place. 
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I must say that this collaboration between Year of No Light & thisquietarmy is... intense. Maybe it's just me but I can't get enough of "Vous Etes Un Nada Mort Marchant Autour Du Visible" and the chimes along the slow, building guitars.
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MisterFuzzles posted:Well, this thread has given me quite a lot of stuff to check out so thank you. I saw them open up for Russian Circles a few weeks ago, they were excellent, especially with the drummer for RC playing with them. If you dig them, check out Chelsea Wolfe, which you might enjoy as well if you like Marriages. edit: Holy hell that Toundra album is drat good. AccountSupervisor fucked around with this message at 03:20 on Sep 11, 2012 |
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Jan posted:Also, I think I realised what The Seer reminds me of. It's like Neurosis around Times of Grace, with less hardcore screaming. Which is awesome, in a way, because it makes the few lyrics on The Seer more ominous than anything Neurosis has done. I'm sure there's an ongoing metaphor on said lyrics, but my mind was too busy being simultaneously high and blown all over the place. The Neurosis connection makes some sense, considering previous Swans member Jarboe (who appears for one song on The Seer) did a collaboration with Neurosis called... Neurosis & Jarboe. It's worth checking out.
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I can't believe I put off that Toundra album for two days. Go listen to it immediately.
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For some reason music from Oz always costs more. Thankfully it's quite often worth every penny as it was with Laura. Today I bring you Tangled Thoughts of Leaving and their first album, Deaden the Fields. This is one of those albums that does everything right. They fill sparcity with really fantastic electronic elements, possibly the best post rock electronics I've seen outside of 65daysofstatic. They have the sound like some kind of freakish child of This Will Destroy You and The Samuel Jackson Five, and every bit of it works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC2gxuvoiqA
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Just got around to listening to all of For My Parents and was fairly disappointed with it. It's not terrible or anything but it took me a while to embrace Mono's heavy use of orchestral strings (compared to their previous works, where it was pretty scarce) when Hymn To The Immortal Wind came out and this is that hesitation and "unsure-ness" times ten. It just felt really uninspired. I'm really starting to miss pre-Hymn To The Immortal Wind Mono but hey, there are four really awesome albums they've done where the use of orchestral strings was minimal or non-existent. Also, I just discovered Swans through The Seer and my god, what a great loving album that is. I've only listened through the whole album twice but I keep returning to Mother of The World, The Seer and The Apostate. Definitely my personal AOTY. Was told to check out Swans Are Dead and Soundtracks For The Blind and hopefully those are as good as I thought The Seer was.
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Circa's first video off their new album is out and it's drat good if I may say so: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAvd8V6p5gI
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an skeleton posted:Circa's first video off their new album is out and it's drat good if I may say so: I think you're in the wrong thread, friend.
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Cymbal Monkey posted:I think you're in the wrong thread, friend.  dygbert posted:Just got around to listening to all of For My Parents and was fairly disappointed with it. It's not terrible or anything but it took me a while to embrace Mono's heavy use of orchestral strings (compared to their previous works, where it was pretty scarce) when Hymn To The Immortal Wind came out and this is that hesitation and "unsure-ness" times ten. It just felt really uninspired. I'm really starting to miss pre-Hymn To The Immortal Wind Mono but hey, there are four really awesome albums they've done where the use of orchestral strings was minimal or non-existent. I didn't know there was some new Mono — after reaching nirvana listening to "Hymn..." I'll have to check it out.
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Yeah, I've really listened to Mono far too much. Just saw them live tonight for the third time, and I just couldn't get into it. Where I used to feel exultant and filled by the music, I was just looking at the time waiting for the show to finish. I guess I've grown too old to enjoy shows filled with people talking, and hipsters in trucker hats nodding to the beat like bobbleheads, especially when I can get a far better experience listening to the same music at home with fancy headphones. Oh well, far cheaper this way. 
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an skeleton posted:Circa's first video off their new album is out and it's drat good if I may say so: Wow, this really gives The Seer a run for its money
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That's really awesome, and it's free, just name a price of $0. I'm really digging the piano riffs in Geranium.
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Really enjoyed that whole album, thanks. Someone outside this thread recognized the Milhouse avatar as meaning I'm from this thread. It's like a gang sign, or a slightly less good custom title tag thing. Het, can we get custom title tags for being a weird insular thread dominated by a handful of people who like music that gets louder?
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The gang henceforth known as Rock Posters.
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chunkey posted:That's really awesome, and it's free, just name a price of $0. I'm really digging the piano riffs in Geranium. As an aside, whenever something is name your price, I tend to chuck them $5 anyway.
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Jan posted:Yeah, I've really listened to Mono far too much. Just saw them live tonight for the third time, and I just couldn't get into it. Maybe someone else who saw them live for the For My Parents release can confirm this, but I think they didn't even play the string arrangements during their concert. Either I was too far in the back to hear them in the mix, or they didn't bother recording one to play over their shows. In any event, I think that's why it was so dull -- listen to Legend, then try to imagine it without the strings.
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I saw them in Toronto and I recall thinking it seemed the orchestral backing was missing. I was only maybe 15 feet from the stage, and it was a small place, anyway, so I was definitely close enough to hear everything. For what it's worth, I didn't find it dull at all. My main problem with the new album is that at times it almost feels like the band is backing the orchestra rather than the other way around, so hearing the songs with the focus on the band coupled with the huge sound of their live show was kind of incredible. But this was also my first time seeing them, so I imagine I got some of that "whoa holy poo poo" first-timer thing going that would have long since worn off someone who's seen them a few more times.
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I'm so far avoiding listening to the album till I see them live. A lot of people are complaining about strings being horribly over used. I for one love strings, so I'm still quite excited. Do they normally play such small gigs?
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