Goddamn, Josh :mad:

Silver is so ****ing good, much better than the S/T.

I hear plenty.

Yes it is. I'm saying poppy as in upbeat, happy, etc.

The only good post rock in my eyes are ones that focus on atmosphere. I don't see how post rock can be good without being atmospheric.

Anyone like Ambulance LTD or The Album Leaf? My friend gave me those 2 CDs, would they be considered post rock?

The Album Leaf is good stuff.

[I]A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms[/I]

Fu[size=2]c[/size]king pretentious title. :upset:

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan;13871065][I]A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms[/I]

Fu[size=2]c[/size]king pretentious title. :upset:[/QUOTE]

It's the guy from Godspeed, what did you expect?

Good music, though. :)

Pretentious? Listen to Te and tell me those titles aren't pretentious.

[QUOTE=Txus;13871753]Pretentious? Listen to Te and tell me those titles aren't pretentious.[/QUOTE]

Or Bal-Sagoth. :lol:

I think that if anything, in instrumental music, if you use a longer title to explain a certain version or to set a certain mood, you're being less implicit.

Less implicit = less vague = less pretentious.

A few laughable developments in this thread:

1) That if something is upbeat and happy it is poppy
Corollary to #1) If something satisfies the above requirements, it is also bad.
2) Post rock MUST have atmosphere, as if atmosphere is a concrete idea that cannot have several subjective interpretations
3) Long titles are obviously pretentious.

Well I didn't mean it that way, hah.

It was more as in having the song titled as:

F:\A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms\A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms - 01 - Broken Chords can sing a little

which is probably not accepted by windows very much.

=|

Oh my god, this thread (particularly the last page or two) makes me want to bash my head against a rock.

1. Alone And Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes
2. Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Filled With A Reddish Glow
3. Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began To Mark The Horizon, The
4. Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through The City Walls And Everyone Reveled In Their Ignorance
5. Brief Moment Of Clarity Broke Through The Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late, A
6. Our Happiest Days Slowly Began To Turn Into Dust
7. Sixth Extiction Crept Up Slowly, Like SUnlight Through The Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret,...

:smoke:

[QUOTE=BurningSky;13873085]1. Alone And Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes
2. Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Filled With A Reddish Glow
3. Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began To Mark The Horizon, The
4. Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through The City Walls And Everyone Reveled In Their Ignorance
5. Brief Moment Of Clarity Broke Through The Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late, A
6. Our Happiest Days Slowly Began To Turn Into Dust
7. Sixth Extiction Crept Up Slowly, Like SUnlight Through The Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret,...

:smoke:[/QUOTE]Red Sparrowes? I recognise the song titles.

[QUOTE=Neoteric;13873116]Red Sparrowes? I recognise the song titles.[/QUOTE]

Correct, sir..:chug:

[QUOTE=Kage;13872309]A few laughable developments in this thread:

1) That if something is upbeat and happy it is poppy
Corollary to #1) If something satisfies the above requirements, it is also bad.
2) Post rock MUST have atmosphere, as if atmosphere is a concrete idea that cannot have several subjective interpretations
3) Long titles are obviously pretentious.[/QUOTE]

lol

[QUOTE=BurningSky;13873085]1. Alone And Unaware, The Landscape Was Transformed In Front Of Our Eyes
2. Buildings Began To Stretch Wide Across The Sky, And The Air Filled With A Reddish Glow
3. Soundless Dawn Came Alive As Cities Began To Mark The Horizon, The
4. Mechanical Sounds Cascaded Through The City Walls And Everyone Reveled In Their Ignorance
5. Brief Moment Of Clarity Broke Through The Deafening Hum, But It Was Too Late, A
6. Our Happiest Days Slowly Began To Turn Into Dust
7. Sixth Extiction Crept Up Slowly, Like SUnlight Through The Shutters, As We Looked Back In Regret,...

:smoke:[/QUOTE]
I wonder how I'm going to name those songs and still make it viable for my computer NOT to crash and die... Hmmm.

Make your computer not suck. It works for the other Red Sparowes fans. :shrug:

[QUOTE=TojesDoLan;13871065][I]A Silver Mt. Zion - He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms[/I]

Fu[size=2]c[/size]king pretentious title. :upset:[/QUOTE]

It was originally "He has left us alone", but Efrim didn't feel this properly conveyed the message

It's hardly even a title, in the sense that any other type of musician would name an album. I think it's very beautiful, and i don't like "pretentious" as a critisism of any music.

Actually, pretentious is [i]exactly[/i] what that title conveys, however, I think pretense has grown into this glowering euphemism.

Grammitically, pretense can be broken down to 'before an event', right?

Pretense in music can be explained as something which occurs before listening. There's little pretense established in an album titled [I]Dirt[/I], but with [I]He Has Left Us Alone But Shafts of Light Sometimes Grace the Corner Of Our Rooms[/I], don't you get this vivid idea of what the album may sound like? Being overly descript is in no way a bad thing unless of course you're worried about all that text boggind down your computer like Tojes. :rolleyes:

In other news, I am listening to Do Make Say Think for the first time.

Opinions?

Good band. Nothing new, but a fun listen.

The songs are really hit/miss for me right now. They're all very poppy..erm happy, which isn't something I often find in post rock, but it's decent stuff. Very eclectic instrumentation as well.

I don't like "happy" post rock but they are one of the few bands that I dig. Are you listening to the album that was sent in the DU?

Jesu's self-titled is one hell of an album.

I like the Silver EP 1000 times more than the S/T.

[I]You, You're a History in Rust[/I] is what I'm listening to Tux. I think I got it from the DU.

Kage, how's it compare to their new one? I could enjoy their sound, but that album sounds somewhat forced or something..It's not quite clicking with me.

I don't like that album that much, Jak.

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo;13878338][I]You, You're a History in Rust[/I] is what I'm listening to Tux. I think I got it from the DU.

Kage, how's it compare to their new one? I could enjoy their sound, but that album sounds somewhat forced or something..It's not quite clicking with me.[/QUOTE]
It's darker and dronier and less melodic and more dense I suppose. But it's the same general concept I think in terms of sound.

DMST's new album has leaked? I'd like to hear that one and I don't have the DU. If anyone would like to send it to me that'd be greatly appreciated: mcemmer at hotmail.com :)

[QUOTE=Dr. Jake Destructo;13878285]In other news, I am listening to Do Make Say Think for the first time.

Opinions?[/QUOTE]

"winter hymn" is one of my favouritest peices of music ever.

I like them very much. They're weird in that you can't just say "the early stuff is ~~~ and the later stuff is ~~~", all the albums are a bit of a mix. I really like it tho.

They are really good. I prefer & Yet & Yet to the new one, though.

I have to say something.

Sigur Ros - ( ) is total masterpiece.

The first track is just perfection in music.

Have you heard Takk?

Yeah, I dislike it.

[QUOTE=Wotan;13879723]I have to say something.

Sigur Ros - ( ) is total masterpiece.

The first track is just perfection in music.[/QUOTE]

I agree.

I don't particularly like Takk, but it's by no means bad.

I've become bored of Sigur Ros' ( ). At first I was in love with it but I rarely even listen to it anymore.

I've listened to it every night for years.

Josh, you've put in the mood for some ().

NP - Track 1

Pelican's website:

"NEW ALBUM IN 2007! Five days from now we will ensconce ourselves in Chicago's Electrical Audio Studios for 11 days of intense concentration and furious rocking. The album will be engineered by none other than Andrew Schneider, the villain behind this years' prime offender Hell Songs by the Daughters, last years' jaw dropper Perfect Pitch Black by Cave In, and the previous years' Summer bar fight soundtrack Subject to Change Without Notice by fellow Midwesterners Keelhaul. In other words, Andrew's credentials are apparently unsullied (yet) and the album is predicted to have a throttling impact worthy of the ragers we've constructed for it.

People who made it out to see us on our West Coast/Canadian jaunt with Daughters had the opportunity to preview four of the new tunes, "City of Echoes", "Bliss in Concrete", "Dead Between the Walls", and "Spaceship Broken - Parts Needed". The good news is that these songs only began to scratch the surface - there's a whole six more songs in the reserves that hadn't yet made it to the live performance stage. On a whole the songs are more concise and more aggressive than our prior work. Relentless repetition has taken a backseat to intensity and a desire to pack as many riffs as possible into each tune.

The album is currently slated for a May release on Hydrahead Records. People can, of course, expect us to tour before and after that time. "