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GhandhiLion
February 18th 2023


17678 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

... how in the world does scum have 17 ratings?

theBoneyKing
February 18th 2023


24710 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Possibly because it’s on Indepedency, yet even that only has 27 ratings…

Sharenge
February 18th 2023


5849 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

on Game Over for me

Mongi123
February 19th 2023


22107 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Despite this albums subconscious influence on post rock, not many people really know about this band unfortunately

GhandhiLion
February 19th 2023


17678 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

subconscious influence on post rock?? This is post-rock, and most consecutive post-rock bands have little to do with it.

theBoneyKing
February 19th 2023


24710 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I mean wasn’t post-rock literally coined to describe this album?

sixdegrees
February 19th 2023


13127 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

The concept of "post-rock" was developed by critic Simon Reynolds,[8] who used the term in his review of Bark Psychosis' album Hex, published in the March 1994 issue of Mojo magazine.[9] Reynolds expanded upon the idea later in the May 1994 issue of The Wire.[5][10] Writing about artists like Seefeel, Disco Inferno, Techno Animal, Robert Hampson, and Insides, Reynolds used the term to describe music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords". He further expounded on the term,



theBoneyKing
February 19th 2023


24710 Comments

Album Rating: 4.0

Thank you sixipedia

GhandhiLion
February 19th 2023


17678 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

He used the term earlier actually. It's a myth that this was the first album post-rock was attributed to.



edit:

http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2014/08/bark-psychosis-interview-hex-review.html

sixdegrees
February 19th 2023


13127 Comments

Album Rating: 2.5

source?

GhandhiLion
February 19th 2023


17678 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

http://reynoldsretro.blogspot.com/2007/07/insides-interview-melody-maker-late.html

"The feature appeared about six weeks later in Melody Maker and seems to be the very first time I used the term “post-rock”, although no one noticed. Seven months later, I would include Insides in the first dedicated overview of post-rock, alongside outfits like Seefeel, Disco Inferno, Main, and Techno Animal. That was in The Wire magazine and this time people did notice."



"Those two years 1993-94 were an incredibly exciting time in British left-field music. All kinds of new directions seemed to be opening up, with the more experimentally-minded guitar-centric groups in the independent sector starting to grapple with the possibilities of sampling, sequencers, programmed rhythm and digital audio workstations like Cubase, in many cases as a result of having their ears piqued by the texturology and groove science of the more advanced units in hip hop and techno (in particular that man Aphex Twin again). This emerging landscape of new ideas and approaches was really too diverse to be shepherded into a movement, but - being a journalist and all - I felt that marshalling things under a single banner was a good strategic move: strength in numbers that would commandeer space and focus attention where it needed to go. Hence “post-rock” – always intended as an open-ended category, a space of possibility rather than a codified genre. So much for that, eh?"

Mongi123
February 20th 2023


22107 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

Lion yeah I know Einstein not everything needs to be corrected. I’m saying that the term was remembered here. So subsequent bands might have been coined as something totally different. This band had an impact whether bands know it or not.

GhandhiLion
February 20th 2023


17678 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

My correction was @Sixdegrees Einstein.



I really doubt that the post-rock label wouldn't have stuck without the existence of this band.





rabidfish
March 3rd 2023


8788 Comments


this is so fucking good! love it

Mongi123
March 6th 2023


22107 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

I love people are still discovering this yay

Mongi123
April 6th 2023


22107 Comments

Album Rating: 5.0

There’s such an endless quality about Pendulum Man. It just goes and goes and goes. And not in song length.

Sharenge
April 6th 2023


5849 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah track is excellent... was a bit off-putting to me as a teenager when I first discovered this record due to its nature and length but grew on me significantly through the years



fuck it throwing this on now

MoM
April 6th 2023


5994 Comments


Goddamn, both this and Dustsucker kick so much ass

Sharenge
April 6th 2023


5849 Comments

Album Rating: 4.5

it's 3 A.M....

rabidfish
May 25th 2023


8788 Comments


this is the SHITTT




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