Best Math Rock

Phantom Limb · 01-11-2010, 03:22 PM

I was just wondering what everone thinks the best math rock albums are.

Rage Against the Machine · 01-11-2010, 03:58 PM

For Respect - Don Caballero
The Hoop - Crime In Choir
Hold Your Horse Is - Hella
Trees, Swallows, Houses - Maps & Atlases
Wonderful Rainbow - Lightning Bolt (debatably math rock)
Split - Cats and Cats and Cats/This Town Needs Guns
Complex Full of Phantoms - Tera Melos/By the End of Tonight

anticipation · 01-11-2010, 08:25 PM

More Skin With Milk-Mouth by Giraffes? Giraffes!

gunnels · 01-11-2010, 08:33 PM

Tera Melos- Self-titled.

EDIT: well excluding melody 8, but nobody really listens to it.

sidewinder · 01-12-2010, 11:30 AM

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Originally Posted by gunnels

EDIT: well excluding melody 8, but nobody really listens to it.

Lol, exactly.

Engine · 01-12-2010, 11:36 AM

Here's one..

Inindependence by A Minor Forest

+81 · 01-12-2010, 11:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Rage Against the Machine

For Respect - Don Caballero
Hold Your Horse Is - Hella
Complex Full of Phantoms - Tera Melos/By the End of Tonight

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Originally Posted by anticipation

More Skin With Milk-Mouth by Giraffes? Giraffes!

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

I also dig Don Caballero - Don Caballero II and The Ladies - They Mean Us.

sidewinder · 01-13-2010, 01:35 PM

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Originally Posted by +81

The Ladies - They Mean Us.

That album is so-so for me, but I dig Other Men's Wake Up Swimming which also features Rob Crow but not Zach Hill, and sounds like a faster and more math version of Pinback. That spells win.

+81 · 01-13-2010, 04:49 PM

I wouldn't say it's great the whole way through but it has enough cool songs to merit mention. Empathy on a Stick is an absolutely killer song.

I'm also a big fan of Marnie Stern's albums.

Spring Hall Convert · 01-13-2010, 09:52 PM

Battles- Mirrored (Fun, catchy futuristic math rock)
Don Caballero- What Burns Never Returns (Much better than For Respect imo)
Slint- Spiderland (More thrown into the post-rock umbrella, but still a math rock record to me)
65daysofstatic- The Fall of Math (see above)
Minus The Bear- Highly Refined Pirates
Giraffes? Giraffes!- More Skin With Milk-Mouth
Maps and Atlases- Trees, Swallows, Houses
(both the last two were previously mentioned, but extremely fun records)

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Spring Hall Convert Groupie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 8	Battles- Mirrored (Fun, catchy futuristic math rock) Don Caballero- What Burns Never Returns (Much better than For Respect imo) Slint- Spiderland (More thrown into the post-rock umbrella, but still a math rock record to me) 65daysofstatic- The Fall of Math (see above) Minus The Bear- Highly Refined Pirates Giraffes? Giraffes!- More Skin With Milk-Mouth Maps and Atlases- Trees, Swallows, Houses (both the last two were previously mentioned, but extremely fun records) __________________ http://www.last.fm/user/AprilPhantom Last edited by Spring Hall Convert; 01-13-2010 at 09:58 PM.

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