Post rock is music that essentially takes a rock band and makes music that doesn't use your normal rock signatures, progressions, and so on. It takes a lot from ambient music, electronica, and I guess maybe shoegaze and krautrock, though I've never really listened to krautrock so I'm not sure on that. I guess that gets a little confusing because a lot of music does that these days, but here's some examples:
Slint was some of the earliest post rock:
The term has largely evolved into a specific sound that started with bands like Mogwai and Tortoise and mostly did away with vocals:
So I guess really post rock and math rock aren't that different, they both have to do with doing something not usually done in rock music but still using a normally traditional rock band. I've heard bands like Don Caballero described as some of the earliest founders of math rock and some of the big early post rock bands.
Wow, that was really off topic, sorry.
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