Anon 08/13/2020 (Thu) 23:26:18 No.6437 del
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So, why am I convinced that Le Soldat Pony album is post rock (even though I could have looked it up on EQD archives or in his Bandcamp)?

I mentioned that the drum patterns are quite static and don´t change their dynamic throughout the song. This happens in the 1st wave of post rock (early mid 90s) because that wave didn´t have as much dynamic range nor crescendos like other bands would standardize later in the late 90s and the 2000s. I was going to link a song of Tortoise that sums up pretty well how a 20 minute song sounds like background music yet keeps evolving subtly during those 20 minutes with simple rhythms.

Nevertheless, after listening to this, I have decided to dive into another band that I should have given a chance before: Talk Talk. This band is ironically a one hit wonder case (It´s My Life being the new wave hit in the 80s) but people don´t take them as one hit wonders. Why? Because of the last two records that defined the post rock genre. So, I have decided to finally give them a try with their last record Laughing Stock and this one serves as a much better example than Tortoise, mostly because Talk Talk gives those haunting vibes as well.

If you like the songs of this video >>6337 (especially the first one), then I am linking the band that resembles to that style (more like it envisioned in 1991 what would come later) with a song from that record that...requires patience and a laid back mindset while listening to it:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=LuYNidNgQic [Embed]

By the way, the term post-rock holds a poisonous irony behind its term. Instead of sounding like rock, the genre is more like a deconstruction of it, avoiding its clichés of what should sound conventionally rock and at some points, there is no rock at all yet there are records tagged as such.

I am sending this, especially after >>6429 having to face what he faced yesterday.


Take your time with this one and have a good night, /endpone/.