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Originally Posted by mojopinuk
The genre is filled with countless bands recycling the same themes and the same sound and the genre as a whole has to have a very limited shelf life, i would say. I cant see the current boom in post-rock over the last few years continuing on while so many bands are seemingly perfectly happy to mimick one another and not take any risks. I think more stand out bands are needed to really inject some originality into what is quickly becomng a very predictable and stale environment.
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That's true. But the term 'post-rock' has existed for almost 20 years now, and the infinitely more fresh and creative post-rock scene of the 90's (for which the term was invented in the first place) should not be mistaken for the current genre, which has become so closed off and confined. It reminds me of a relation of a bloodless and confined gothic-rock from the 80's and 90's to a more interesting and powerful dark wave and death-rock of the early 80's.