Album Rating: 4.5

To be fair, postrock basically *is* a dead genre imo. Album's like this are exceptions, go check any of those postrock YouTube channels, and you'll see what I mean. Hundreds of new albums uploaded every year from all over the world - but most of them are boring as heck

Post rock is the option for bands with cash, bare minimum musical.skills and not enough charisma or confidence to look for a singer.

But yeah, Caspian are not any of the above.

Album Rating: 5.0

plus it's really hard to make an actually bad post rock album, unless you're actively trying to make it suck it'll probably just end up being boring as hell

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post rock is like shoegaze. dead as fuck as solo genres but as an aesthetic to fuse with a different genre - up there with the best

Album Rating: 4.5

"Post rock is the option for bands with cash, bare minimum musical.skills and not enough charisma or confidence to look for a singer."

Can confirm, am in a postrock band of sorts. 'cept we don't have much in the way of cash either.



In post-rock, boring = bad tbh. But at least bad postrock makes good study music

Album Rating: 5.0

“Post rock is like shoegaze. dead as fuck as solo genres but as an aesthetic to fuse with a different genre - up there with the best“



I’m a real sucker for shoegaze- total indie kid at heart as that was the big thing for me getting into music as a teenager - and love the newer bands who are coming round who must have listened to their parents playing to My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive. Check out a band called BDRMM. They just released their debut album last week.



I saw Slowdive on their tour for their comeback album a few years ago and that was possibly one of the best gigs I’ve ever been to.

Album Rating: 5.0

And I totally agree about the link between post rock and shoegaze. As genres they have such identifiable structures styles and sound that as a musician it must be so easy to emulate. So it follows that there must be such a saturation of post rock bands and shoegaze bands that are either average or just plain awful. But then, sometimes with likes of like Caspian and Jakob, to name two - you get something special arriving. I think it’s just part of my genes now to naturally gravitate towards the shoegaze sound, but it doesn’t take long to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to recognise genius even when it arrives in the guise of a well established style.

Album Rating: 5.0

God Run Dry is so serene and folky

Album Rating: 5.0

"Post rock is the option for bands with cash, bare minimum musical.skills and not enough charisma or confidence to look for a singer."



What the fuck? There's a whole lot of assumptions being made in this thread. Keep in mind that not only is post rock NOT acceptable or "accessible" to the generic radio listener inherently because it doesn't have lyrics most of the time. People don't have patience for it. Go on youtube and you'll also find TONS and TONS of unknown bands with no views and it doesn't necessarily mean they don't have talent or confidence or charisma or lack of musical skills.



Just because post rock bands like say, We Lost The Sea or Saxon Shore or Lights Out Asia for example don't play in a flashy "traditional manner of what people call talent doesn't mean they don't have "bare minimum" musical skills. It may just mean that's not whom they are and would rather tell a story of create a piece of music rather than play a bunch of prog rock melodies. Also they may not want a singer.



Another point I wanna make: how many genres like, say prog rock, dream pop, shoegaze, etc actually pop up on here and blow up? Post rock is no exception. This has basically become a metal/emo/all things indie kinda site. Sorry to ramble, but it just irks me when people ultimately dismiss post rock as dead or talentless because it doesn't blow up as often or they think it sounds the same. A lot of prog rock/metal, shoegaze, thrash metal, for example ends up sounding the same to me personally lol. Sorry, just really passionate about this genre and I love to defend it with everything I got.

Album Rating: 4.5

I love post-rock too man. I'm kinda burnt out on it atm, but it really is one of my favourite genres. I'm pretty sure Dewinged was joking, at least a little. I was when I agreed with them, anyway



Really though, the most generic style of it is really stale atm. It's not hard to make generic crescendocore, and so there are loads of really average bands have really meh albums coming iut constantly. Like I said, go on to any of those post-rock youtube channels like worldhaspostrock or wherepostrockdwells and they're constantly premiering some new ambient space jam album from literally hundreds of bands, most of which are... well, fine



Bands like WLTS are the exception, not the rule.

Album Rating: 5.0

My one question would be though if that's the case: What's the point of listening to one of those channels. OF COURSE you're gonna find by the numbers post rock there. Most genres are no exception to that rule too. Literally every genre releases music that's just "fine." Just bothers me when people collectively make post rock the main offender and/or scapegoat for that.

Chill out Mongi, I was obviously kidding lol

Album Rating: 5.0

Ok good I hoped so lol many people actually believe that though. And as you see, I've got PLENTY to say about it (;

Bands with expensive pedal effects and no musical chops are sadly not exclusive to post rock haha.

Album Rating: 4.5

"I've got PLENTY to say about it"



Brilliant, me too lol



"My one question would be though if that's the case: What's the point of listening to one of those channels."



Well, I use them for reading or study music. Most of it is so washed out and unobtrusive that it it fills my ears and helps me focus on whatever I'm reading. I have found some amazing artists through those channels, but most of it I wouldn't be able to actively listen to it on its own, I'd get bored.



Plus I'm attached to the overall sound. It's comfortable, like a sitcom that you keep watching even though you've seen it a million times. Also sometimes I do discover something truly interesting on there, and it's kind of cool that that's always a possibility.



"Just bothers me when people collectively make post rock the main offender and/or scapegoat for that"



I guess it can be annoying when people write it off like that, but tbh I mostly find it kind of funny. I think one of the reasons that happens is because maybe 90% of modern postrock bands are aiming for this transcendental, EITS sound and they take it super seriously with all the ambient effects and the lowercase songtitles and shit like that... I mean, it *is* pretty funny in a lot of ways. It feels like a lot of post-rock has just one mode, and every band flogs it - and when you're aiming for epic or inspirational, that's more noticeable when it's boring than if you're some punk band who recycles 3 chord riffs from the 80s but whose aim is just to rock out.

Album Rating: 4.5

Ngl the t/t here makes me into a big babbling baby.

The ending is so beautiful, like the end chapter to one of the most magical moments of ones life. The conclusion of a rebirth.

Goddamn I love this album.

Album Rating: 5.0

Darkfield still gives me goosebumps, that song is pure perfection

Lovely album. Prob in the top 10 post rock albums list i say.

Album Rating: 4.5

I can't believe I haven't heard this until now. This slaps hard.

Album Rating: 5.0

these guys were the last concert i caught in the before times, before everything collapsed

when things go back to normal i highly recommend seeing them. crazy energy.