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Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger
I don't really consider Tortoise or Slint post rock.
Or Flying Saucer Attack for that matter.
They may have been an influence on it but they're nowhere near as dull & plodding Godspeed You whatever or Sigur Ros
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It depends on how you define post-rock. For some people, the unconventional use of instruments is enough to satisfy their definiton. Most people consider Tortoise the pioneers of that genre, but truth be told, Godspeed and A Silver Mt. Zion may well have paved their own way independently. They don't really share any similarities other than a lack of convention and a clear cut focus on instrumentals. Swans are in a world of their own and some people call them post-rock, though I'm hesitant to even use that widely abused term...it seems to describe Godspeed, Explosions and their various spin offs more than anything.