Best Post-Rock Albums
- 1. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven (http://www.cstrecords.com/releases/cst012)
- 2. Mogwai - Young Team (http://shop.chemikal.co.uk/acatalog/CHEM018.html)
- 3. Bark Psychosis - Hex and Independency (http://www.cduniverse.com/search/xx/music/pid/1020310/a/Hex.htm)
- 4. Explosions in the Sky - The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place (http://www.temporaryresidence.com)
- 5. Ganger - Hammock Style (http://www.dominorecordco.com/artists/ganger)
- 6. Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die (http://www.thrilljockey.com/catalog/index.html?id=100044)
- 7. 65daysofstatic - The Fall of Math (http://www.monotremerecords.com/65dos/fall.php)
- 8. Do Make Say Think - Winter Hymn Country Hymn Secret Hymn (http://cstrecords.com/releases/cst025)
- 9. Sigur Ros - ( ) (http://www.amazon.com/Sigur-R%C3%B3s/dp/B00006LLNU)
- 10. The Evpatoria Report - Maar and Golevka (http://www.the-evpatoria-report.net/home.html)
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor discography
- Mono discography
- Mogwai discography
- Explosions in the Sky discography
- Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia... - My elixir; My poison
- Sigur Ros - Ágætis Byrjun
- 2 by Bukowski - What a long, strange journey this has been
- Apse - Eras
- Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup
- Cul De Sac - Crashes To Light, Minutes To Its Fall
- Labradford - Prazision LP
- Grails - Burning Off Impurities
- Valley of the Giants - s/t
- Gregor Samsa - 55:12
- Talk Talk - Laughing Stock
- Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss
- A Silver Mt. Zion - Born into Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upwards
- Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder
- Port-Royal - Flares
- Because of Ghosts - The Tomorrow We Were Promised Yesterday
- Surface of Eceyon - Revenge of Dragyn
- Red Sparowes - At the Soundless Dawn
- The Drift - Noumena
- Esmerine - Aurora
- Fly Pan Am - Fly Pan Am
- Laura - Radio Swan is Down
- Slint - Spiderland
- Lis Er Stille - Apathobvious
- Shipping News - Save Everything
- Strangers Die Every Day - Aperture for Departure
- Tarantel - The Order of Things
- The Seven Mile Journey - The Metamorphosis Project
- This is Your Captain Speaking - s/t
- This Will Destroy You - s/t
- Disco Inferno - D.I. Go Pop
- Tristeza - Dream Signals in Full Circles
- God is an Astronaut - All is Violent, All is Bright
- Daturah - Daturah
- Meanwhile, Back in Communist Russia - Indian Ink
- The Sea, Like Lead/Belegost - Split
- Joy Wants Eternity - You Who Pretend To Sleep
All of these albums are highly recommended and I've added links to the labels so you can buy the CDs and listen to them in high quality.
Explosions in the Sky - Six Days at the Bottom of the Ocean (TEINACDP) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbe8RKfaIjU
Bark Psychosis - Absent Friend (Hex)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU51D61FzGI
Mogwai - Friend of the Night (Mr. Beast) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_3alnTE9g
Mono - Yearning (You Are There)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VogyJ9YszC8&feature=related
Sigur Ros - Untitled #1 from ( ) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0AZIFmkogY
GY!BE - The Dead Flag Blues (F# A# infinity) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aLjup934Rk
Talk Talk - Ascension Day (Laughing Stock) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-arEDX3jM\
Slint - Washer (Spiderland) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1couhUpkecE
Tortoise - Live at Werchter [full set] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sps7YxLeYM
Great list! I'll be doing a fair bit of downloading thanks to this :D
No love for Agaetis Byrjun, eh?
I thought ( ) and Takk were better but every album Sigur Ros made is brilliant including Agaetis Byrjun.
Fair enough. Although I found () needlessly depressing IMO.
How do you like their new album?
I'm laughing pretty hard at myself right now because I found ( ) to be fairly depressing at the beginning of the album, but towards the end I felt it to be... not necessarily uplifting, but more uplifting than depressing. I've listened to that album alone about 6 times, and I'm almost terrified of moving onto his other ones for fear of not being as pleased.
to spinmedown16
Most post-rock doesn't sound like Sigur Ros at all. You'll find that most bands use guitar, bass, drums, violin and its basically instrumental rock with lots of distortion. eg. Explosions in the Sky and The Evpatoria Report.
Then there's bands that a do something different with the sound- like new Mono (Hymn to the Immortal Wind) and also the new Mogwai (The Hawk is Howling).
So any of these bands on my list are worth listening too and also I tried to represent all different types of post-rock as well.
( ) is pretty sad and melancholy like a lot of post-rock, but I found quite a few of songs to be very uplifting. I've only listened to the new album twice, but from memory it seems to get better towards the end and they seem to really be doing the quiet parts really well.
Hey guys, check out God is an astronaut - Echoes, youtube it perhaps?. I find it to be a very uplifting and epic post-rock song, and i wish i could find more post-rock like it.
Maybe 'Exxasens' is similar to god is an astronaut.