Anyone dig Jesu? Freaking great stuff. Broaderick is a genius. Listen to Sun Down, Sun Rise. Some awesome instrumentation.
I love Jesu and Godspeed You! Black Emperor.

Jesu are excellent, haven't been keeping up with them over the past few years though. Their first two or three releases were brilliant. The Silver EP is my favourite.

I've listened to a lot of post-rock, but I just keep going back time and time again to Godspeed. As far as depth and scope goes, they are unmatched.

Hell yeah man Jesu are amazing!

Has anybody else heard the new *shels album Plains of the Purple Buffalo yet? If not then you really need to grab yourself a copy and give it a good listen with headphones. I don't know how they one-upped their debut Sea of the Dying Dhow (2007) but they've somehow managed to do it. Beautiful melodies that sound good heavy and soft with great musicianship and atmosphere. Seriously do not miss out on this one.

Don't know if most of you consider 'Porcupine Tree' as post-rock, but I am going to list them at the top!

Also Love:
Eluvium
Explosions in the sky
Everything is made in china
Spock's Beard
Mars Volta
Sunny Day Real Estate
Slowdive
Six Organs of Admittance
The Dead Texans
Portishead
Tool
Kitchens of Distinction
King Crimson
House Of Love
Dream Theatre
Blackfield
No-man
Bass Communion
I.E.M. (Incredible Expanding Mind ****)
Godspeed you black Emperor
Mogwai

Wouldn't classify all that as post-rock necessarily but okay okay, das wassup. Good list. Got the Portishead, Godspeed, Mogwai and Explosions on their, can't argue with that.

If Jesu is in the same post as Godspeed, than I will check them out.

Anyways, I'll just post some vids of some (imo) good post rock.



Don't know what the video has to do with the music.

I'm going to grab a copy/download of this just because you seem so passionate about this group. :beer:

Too many pages to see if any of this has been mentioned before, but here are a few tunes I like.

Pram: It's difficult to say if they're actually post-rock or not, but I don't know what else I would call them. Very diverse discography with a lot of interesting sounds. My favorite is Dark Island which is probably their most cohesive album. If noir post-rock were a real genre, Dark Island would be king.



contrasting the rest of their discography with their first album (Gash, 1992) makes for one of the most impressive sound shifts of any music career that I know of



Long Fin Killie: This group kind of demands that you like the singer in order to enjoy their sound. I'm not always a big fan of effeminate male vocals, but for some reason I think this guy has a really attractive style. They're bass heavy and have some bipolarity going on at times. Long Fin Killie definitely has one of the most unique musical personalities I've heard in the post-rock scene.





Quickspace: Kind of a post-rock group with a pseudo-punk approach. They have amazing guitar work and a really raw sound. Oh yeah, and they occasionally use a theremin, which I think is a criminally underrated instrument.

Wow, just read all 49 pages of this thread looking for some new bands to check out. I found a few and thought I'd post a few bands I didn't see in this thread that I felt should be.

All Angels Gone Very much a Sliver Mount Zion ripoff but a damn good one. Heavy strings and glockenspiel with male and female vocals. I believe they only have 1 album out ("Quietly") but there are a bunch of awesome professional quality live vids up on youtube

Under Byen Danish group, probably the most trip-hop inspired post rock band I've ever heard, kinda like Bjork or Beth Gibbons being backed by 65dos or mum. "Samme stof som stof" is, imho their best album.

Hangedup Viola/drums duo, can be almost industrial at times, "Clatter for Control' is my favorite album by them but "Kicker In Tow" is probably their most Post-Rockish one.

Jackie-o Motherf*cker Similar to GY!BE or ASMZ but not really a ripoff considering they have actually been around longer than either. Generally more chaotic and experimental than their peers they started out as an almost free-jazz group and slowly (over about 20 albums) turned to ambient post rock. "Ballads of the revolution" is easily my favorite of theirs but 'Flags of the Sacred Harp" and "change" are also excellent albums

Suffocate for F*ck Sake I know this was listed a few pages back but one mention isn't enough for all their awesomeness. They are probably the best band at combining hardcore and actual post rock without crossing to far over into post-metal territory. They also only have one album("Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There's a War Going On and I'm Marching in Heavy Boots".) but that's all you really need, not to mention that's like enough title for 3 albums... lol.

I checked out Flags a while back, and while I'd argue that it's not even remotely post-rock it's still a pretty good album. Needs time to sink in, though, given that some of the stuff they do is gleefully childish.

Pram's Dark Island: Awesome.

Long Fin Killie: I didn't hate the guy's vocals, that wasn't the problem. The problem was that it wasn't new or exciting. It's too "samey". There wasn't anything in those songs that would have any replay value, for me.

Quickspace: I wish they would have left the vocals out. Everything else was pretty solid in my opinion. Sometimes not having vocals paints a better story.

I'll admit that I have always thought of post-rock as being incredibly boring, but I'm willing to be a bit more open-minded... Currently, the only two bands that I listen to that exhibit elements of post-rock are Slint and A Whisper in the Noise. If anyone knows of any decent post-rock albums then please feel free to suggest a few. I realize that my request is somewhat vague, but just suggest anything that you feel is right (especially if you know anything about my taste in music).

If I managed to bring myself to like metal (a genre I have struggled with), then I'm sure I can learn to enjoy post-rock (or at least appreciate it).

Godspeed You! Black Emperor --- Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada

Someone recommend post-rock bands WITHOUT vocals. Please and thank you.

Seconded. It's a short, digestible accessible album/EP but it's still as uncompromising and adventurous as their two full-lengths. Best place to start with who are, in my opinion, the best of the genre.

I have a hard time listening/reading an argument against that.

Has Mono been mentioned? I'm about to look more into them myself, they're an excellent japanese post rock band. Not the typical more monotonous kind of post rock, but very well put together with great tension builds and releases.

Meh, I have a few favorites in the post-rock area, but GY!BE aren't one of them. I like them, but I wouldn't put them over every other band in the genre. Maybe my tastes weren't as good as I thought they were.

I always thought that Explosions in the Sky's "Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die" is a good introduction to post-rock. It's much more 'rock' than something like GY!BE and much more accessible than Gastr Del Sol and other stuff like that.

Mogwai's "Rock Action" is also a great album, but does feature vocals on a handful of tracks.

Hymn To The Immortal Wind's one of my favorite albums ever.

Have you listened to Earth Division yet? Great stuff.

While I enjoy Godspeed, I find my post-rock fallback time and time again is Red Sparowes. Seeing them live a year ago really opened me up to their music, and now I can't get enough of them. Also love Explosions in the Sky, A Silver Mt. Zion, and This Will Destroy You.

I'm not a huge fan of the more vocally-oriented stuff; I've really struggled with getting into artists like Mono. I appreciate the music, but it just doesn't set the same kind of vibe for me that the purely instrumental stuff does.

is everything post rock now that doesn't have big hair and sound like Bon Jovi?

I've always been confused about this catagory. (DoHlt)

This confuses me since Mono is instrumental. But I know what you mean. I myself like some post-rock bands with vocals (EF, Jeniferever, Immanu El, Ioseb, Sigur Rós) but there are many that I just can't enjoy...

it's not a sub-genre i'm particularly fond of, i like post-metal or post-hardcore more

i only really dig Talk Talk's last 2 albums and Sigur Ros' Takk

What?! You like post-metal and post-hardcore (hope you've heard of *shels, if not, check em out) but not post-rock?

Hammock, Explosions in the Sky, The Album Leaf, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Stafrænn Hákon - I'm sure you've heard some

^^what are the best albums by respective bands?

It's not their best, but Slow Riot For New Zero Kanada is probably the best place to start with Godspeed. It's short (by their standards), accessible, and has all of the trademark Godspeed elements.

Their best is, in my opinion, Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven.

Anyone into Codes in the Clouds?

Fourteen Nights at Sea

Favorite artist: Behzad Mehrnoosh
Favorite album: Huskvarna Blues (2012)
Favorite song: ett ljus (from the album Huskvarna Blues 2012)

You can listen from bandcamp, soundcloud, deezer, spotify.

Stumbled upon band from Sweden called Oh Hiroshima on Bandcamp and have been listening to it these days. I don't listen lots of post rock but I find this one very special.

Cerberus Shoal have been a heavy favorite, working amazingly psychedelic and downtempo jazz noodling into their artsy brand of post hardcore



One of the best albums I've ever heard right here tbh. Their eclectic-ness is unacanny, with subtle dub stylings, diverse builds, and catastrophic explosions



free rock jamming that borrows a lot from Doors-esque psychedelia