why is post rock so bad? >amateur musicianship >boring

thats only godspeed you black emperor, which do suck. Theres some post-rock i like but a lot of it is music for pretentious rockists

>>71526690
Post rock is bullshit. Food for hipsters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfgvMPJkvD4

>implying

>>71526690
Agreed
Post Rock is a fucking cancer

>>71526765
ok at best
The best rock scenes rn are desert rock and black metal (personal opinion)

>>71526690
because anything called "post-rock" shouldn't have a specific, easily-identifiable sound. and yet it does

Post Rock is basically elevator music but even more soulless and boring

>tfw I unironically love post rock
I don't even know why I go here

>>71526690
Post-rock is one of those genres that seems amazing when you first discover it but then realize that most bands are dull derivative garbage

Sort of like shoegaze

>>71527237
Which is weird because both those genres have a ton of potential for artistic development but nothing new seems to ever happen

>>71527237
bingo
that being said more good shoegaze then good post rock

>>71527237
shoegayz is better than post rock though

>>71527214
At least elevator music has some kind of melody. These post rock pieces are endless and tuneless.

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>>71527288
It's honestly amazing because it's gay as fuck and I love it for that. If it was str8 it would probably have been Nu Metal tier cancer.

>>71527222
I feel you mang,
>>71527237
I think you're just not finding the right stuff. There's a good bit of variety in shoegaze and while post-rock has become crescendo core there are still plenty of interesting artists that I don't think the genre should be written off entirely.
>>71527288
They're amazing combined though.

>>71527310
Honestly you guys are saying shit I couldn't have said any better.

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>>71527237
that's so fucking accurate
you find like two-three good bands and think
>wow, this genre is pretty great, hope there's more good shit here
no
there is not

mathrock is also like this, albeit with some more good bands

>>71527327
nr
they're just sorta boring. It takes the part of shoegaze that rocks out of shoegaze.

>>71527327
>They're amazing combined though.
rec me some good albums that do this pham

>/mu/ suddenly hates post-rock
What the fuck happened???

>>71527400
It became less cancerous and full of neckbeards probably

>>71527282
Like what? the only good shoe gaze bands I know of are MBV and early mercury rev. Ride sucks overall and there is an endless stream of shit shoe gaze bands. That being said not a fan of much post rock either

>>71527376
The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

>>71527237
because neither should really be considered a genre

neither messing around with pedals or using rock instruments to create something more abstract than the traditional rock song is really criteria for a genre. bands in any rock genre can do either of those songs, having it as the core foundation of the music being created and not just a tool or technique to be used when the situation requires it leads to incredibly boring music with no variation

but since people fall for marketing so easily, lazy bands have found success by just blatantly ripping off the sound of one or two bands who happened to get labelled with the genre (in this case mbv and gy!be)

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>>71527400
>/mu/ is one person
kill you are self

>>71527429
and maybe coctuea twins, there okay.

>>71527400
I always thought /mu/ hated post rock except for GY!BE and maybe Sigur Rós. Apparently I'm wrong

>>71527376
The Twilight Sad
HANL
That Kairon Irse album

>>71527439
They're sub-genres though.

>>71527237
Funny because I felt exactly the same way about blackgaze and post-metal

>>71527455
/mu/ pretty much hates third wave post-rock in general

>>71527439
*either of those things

and it's worth pointing out that the original first wave post-rock bands (the only ones worth listening to) all came from completely different contexts within rock music, weren't originally labelled as post-rock and most importantly weren't trying to make post-rock. same with shoegaze to a lesser extent. mbv was a post-punk band at first and it shows. ride has more in common with neo-psychedelia

>>71527468
they're not even that. slint and talk talk sound nothing alike. they're not the same genre

>>71527455
>GY!BE and maybe Sigur Rós
Probably in earlier phase, now it's all about circlejering first wave like Slint, Swans, Talk Talk and Bark Psychosis

>>71527490
In fairness, slint could easily be considered math rock.

>>71527494
slint and swans have been /mu/core for at least five years anon. same with talk talk really

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>>71527455
GY!BE is mostly liked, I sure love them.
Sigur is pretty ambivalent.
Swans could also qualify as post-rock and are pretty popular here.

Shit like Explosions in the Sky, God is an Astronaut and all the other reddit-tier derivative heaps of garbage - those are the hated ones.

That's my take at least.

false
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpEILvXQaZM

Explosions in the Sky sound like Coldplay instrumentals stretched to 7 minutes

>>71527572
65daysofstatic are one of those abnds that I should like more than I do, they have cool ideas, but they are not very well executed.

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>>71527572
>no-man's-sky-core

>>71527563
any band as popular/seminal in their genre as godspeed is going to get a lot of shit on /mu/. and I think they get an extra bit of shit because they popularised the sound that so many generic third wave bands ended up copying

>>71527623
tbf the Soundtrack was the only good thing about that game

>>71527419

>everyone who doesn't like what I like are neckbeards

>>71527640
nr
Theres some pretty neckbeardy shit I like. Just nothing quite as cancerous as post rock.

>>71527636
it was not bad, but not thrilling either
it did fit the game though, i gotta admit

these image captchas are retarded btw

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>>71527363
Listen to HUM's You'd Probably prefer an Astronaught or Auto Lux's Future Perfect and Pussys Dead
Also shoegaze has more ties to texture based music so if you're going into it for rock you're setting yourself up for disappointment.

>>71526690
You might actually be retarded

>>71527456
does the twilight sad sound anything like the other two?
if it does it must be based asf

>>71527906
No it's just indie rock with more reverb

>>71527991
ah fuck

>>71528054
It's still ok though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79pmP4FjnXc

>>71528122
damn that's a thick accent

>>71528184
They're Scottish

>>71527237
Pretty much this

>>71527709
I mean I'm into Black Metal and my favorite shoegaze band is probably either curve or the boo radlies so probably not.

First wave post-rock (stuff like Stereolab, Moonshake, Tortoise, Th Faith Healers, Slint and Pram) is a very interesting an varied genre.

It's the third wave post rock where it all gone wrong.

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/sigur-ros-is-for-adult-babies

>>71528880
This