Originally Posted by Ninetales

yeah theres like 2 completely separate parts of post-rock. the early Slint, Dirty Three, Tortoise, Talk Talk, etc (in fact you could probably separate this even further). and the crescendocore post-rock Godspeed, Explosions, Mogwai, etc.

I heard someone compare Godspeed to Pearl Jam in that they basically ruined a genre (unintentionally of course) by breeding a bunch of knockoffs that took over. Kinda seems right.