Post-Rock
While arguments about what post-rock actually is continue, the genre has given us some adventurous and thrilling music.
Trying to work out exactly what post-rock is is almost as impossible as getting half a dozen prog fans to agree on what progressive rock is. These days almost everyone has their own take on what a particular genre should be. But in broader terms (and risking the wrath of the purists), post-rock is all about creating non-rock sounds using standard rock instrumentation. So it’s all about things such as the atmospherics and cinematic scope of the music rather than the versechorus-verse song structure.
The term was coined by music writer Simon Reynolds while reviewing the 1994 Bark Psychosis album But, as you will see from our own list, the musical ideas had been around way before then. Post-rock may have evolved out of the indie and shoegaze scenes of the late 80s and early 90s, but it owes far
