August 12th, 2010 | by Tony Smith | published in indie rock, post-rock, progressive rock | 1 comment
Brilliant debut album from the Madison, Wisconsin instrumental indie rockers known as Cougar. And no, Courtney Cox is not a member of the band.
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May 31st, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in post-rock, progressive rock, psychedelic | no comments
Tame Impala were at first listen anything but tame. Their EP came out more than a year ago, featuring five tracks of in-your-face psychedelic rock-and-roll. You could easily have convinced me they were out of the sixties, but how wrong that’d be! While their sound is old, this Perth trio is anything but (as evidenced by the picture at right). I won’t say I’ve been looking forward to this album since that initial EP, but I probably should have been.
Kinnie The Explorer – Blood, It’s On Every Wall EP
May 28th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in post-rock | 2 comments
The four tracks on their EP “Blood, It’s On Every Wall” focus very heavily on instrumentation, and I ought to make it very clear that this is my favorite part of the music. Production is crisp and round, the guitar riffs harmonic and clean. Indeed, it’s quite surprising to learn that the band had been together for less than six months at the time of release on April 28, 2010.
May 26th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in math-rock, post-punk, post-rock | 3 comments
The beauty is that on “Total Life Forever”, the majority of these build-ups explode into the math-rock evinced in their first album, fulfilling the expectations of those fans of “Antidotes”. The song above, “After Glow”, perfectly exemplifies this tactic. The result is at once unique and rewarding (though you would be right to point out that it takes a certain amount of patience to get through it).
February 23rd, 2010 | by b aiken | published in math-rock, post-rock | 4 comments
The recently released (and available for streaming in full at their website) self titled LP from Brooklyn post rocker’s, Fang Island, is a hard driving, feel good, rock album, complete with screaming guitars and soaring vocals which will undoubtably have you giving your speakers a real workout. The listening isn’t labored though, and doesn’t leave ears exhausted by providing some some restful interludes. This is the kind of album you’ll definitely be coming back to time and time again.
The Besnard Lakes – Are The Roaring Night
February 10th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in post-rock, shoegaze | 5 comments
The whole album kind of plods along. About my fourth time through “Chicago Train,” it occurred to me that playing the song live probably isn’t any fun: there’s nothing in here to hook an audience. And “Glass Printer” is a shockingly forgettable song. Literally. I’ve listened to the album quite a few times now, and I can’t seem to remember that this one exists. Even “Albatross,” the good first single, loses a little bit of its luster when its couched by glassy-eyed dead-enders.
The Album Leaf – A Chorus of Storytellers
February 2nd, 2010 | by Taylor Fife | published in instrumental, house, post-rock | 2 comments
The album is incredibly beautiful, and there is obviously a lot of potential, but for now the post-rock diluted with indie-rock is best
suited for background music. And judging by their television, movie, and commercial credits, many people agree.
January 28th, 2010 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in indie pop, post-rock | 2 comments
My roommate made an excellent observation: “Europeans keep pumping out new releases sung in English. Americans could never pump out records in other languages. Americans suck. Europeans rule.” Whether you take that as truth or not, the fact stands: European bands tend toward singing in English (save for the Krauts). Efterklang is no exception to that rule. Natives of Copenhagen, Denmark, the four core members of this group perform beautiful post-rock pieces reminiscent of Sigur Ros’s most recent track opener, Gobbeldigook. The final product? Drum-thumping bliss.
December 10th, 2009 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in alternative, post-rock, progressive rock, psychedelic | 1 comment
If Mr. Gnome had a male singer, they’d sound like Apse. And if you like Mr. Gnome, then the psychedelic, post-rock, experimental grooviness of Apse is sure to garner your attention. This music isn’t pop. It isn’t meant to sit in the background while you work hard on homework. Rather, it commands your full focus.
November 18th, 2009 | by Jason Grishkoff | published in electronic, instrumental, house, math-rock, post-rock | 2 comments
I often refrain from calling bands truly ecletic, since no artist can take influence from everything, but TTT do a good job of taking influence from more places than most. In their mix they use elements of post-rock, IDM, math rock and british indie rock. They sound somewhat like a full band version of Four Tet doing his own post-rock version of a Foals song using the equipment Battles use in their live show.
