Would King Crimson's _Discipline_ count as post-rock then?
I like your definition and focus on guitars and I believe you have it right, even though I also think of bands like Sigur-Rós that use a lot of organ and mallet percussion, as well as strings and brass.
In writing my songs I have struggled with how to describe them for purposes of recruiting musicians to play them. "Post-rock" has never seemed a good fit, and now I think that's because I almost never write guitar parts.
I haven't heard that Crimson album in a long while, but I'd say that prog in general is conceptually post-rock - but in terms of sonics it's more about virtuosity than sound...
This begs a difficult definition of what Post-Rock actually is meant to be.
In the guitar-context though, a band like Wire is definitely Post-Rock in my book.
Would King Crimson's _Discipline_ count as post-rock then?
ReplyDeleteI like your definition and focus on guitars and I believe you have it right, even though I also think of bands like Sigur-Rós that use a lot of organ and mallet percussion, as well as strings and brass.
In writing my songs I have struggled with how to describe them for purposes of recruiting musicians to play them. "Post-rock" has never seemed a good fit, and now I think that's because I almost never write guitar parts.
I haven't heard that Crimson album in a long while, but I'd say that prog in general is conceptually post-rock - but in terms of sonics it's more about virtuosity than sound...
ReplyDeleteThis begs a difficult definition of what Post-Rock actually is meant to be.
In the guitar-context though, a band like Wire is definitely Post-Rock in my book.