Ecksavie: The Post-Rock All Stars

reportingbird 08.14.13	no hammock die
StallionMang 08.14.13	Explosions In The Sky? Talk Talk? Slint? Sigur Ros?
geasoftime 08.14.13	He said he was avoiding the usual suspects. That being said, only 5 would be in my top twenty.
reportingbird 08.14.13	mono?
Ecksavie 08.14.13	I don't like Hammock and Sigur Ros much. :( And yeah, if I put in "The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place" from EITS and "Laughing Stock" from Talk Talk this would be just another list. I take your criticism for Slint though.
Ecksavie 08.14.13	And Mono. Fuck you, this was hard ok!
Ecksavie 08.14.13	... And I can justify these as usual suspects. :D
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	do make say think?
Ecksavie 08.14.13	That's a new one to me, will check it out. Any particular album you can suggest?
thumbcrusher 08.14.13	maybeshewill are awesome, that's probably my fav of their's too
Ecksavie 08.14.13	That was a hard choice, but that album has some serious pearls. I really like their To the Skies EP too.
Keyblade 08.14.13	Cloudkicker tho for real? Yndi Halda and Mono would be better picks.
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	their more conventional one is You, You're a History In Rust here's some more essential stuff of the genre, much much better than GIAA, Mono, Cloudkicker... Rachel's - The Sea and the Bells Dirty Three - Horse Stories Hammock - Raising Your Voice... Trying To Stop An Echo Set Fire to Flames - Sings Reign Rebuilder Storm and Stress - Storm and Stress World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland Spokes - People Like People Like You
treeqt. 08.14.13	HEY WHY DON'T YOU HAVE ALL THE ALBUMS THAT I WOULD PUT ON MY LIST ON YOUR LIST MAN YOU ARE A LITERAL SUBOPTIMAL USER GET OUT OF MY SIGHT
Ecksavie 08.14.13	Cloudkicker is seriously under appreciated, even though most of his stuff is more post-metal. Got to take some risks eh.
geasoftime 08.14.13	Check out Lights Out Asia - Eyes Like Brontide Fridge - Happiness Dirty Three - Ocean Songs Kauan - Aava Tuulen Maa
geasoftime 08.14.13	Good call on that World's End Girlfriend album. It's a 5/5
Ecksavie 08.14.13	I'm biased for GIAA since that's where it all began for me. I also figured that people who were kind of new to post-rock would dig that pretty easily.
Keyblade 08.14.13	Good call on Kauan geas. Can't wait for their new album.
treeqt. 08.14.13	Mono / Worlds End Girlfriend - Palmless Prayer / Mass Murder Refrain Magnog - More Weather Lil B - Based Jam
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	I mean, no (@ilovetree), this list just indicates that, chances are, the guy who made the list hasn't heard a whole lot of post-rock or hasn't heard very good post-rock so it's not like we're commenting just to shit on him, more to let him know that there's much better stuff than GIAA (ugh)
treeqt. 08.14.13	ya the comments should be more along the lines of "hey man you should totes check these ..." rather than "YOUR LIST NEEDS x Y z" though
treeqt. 08.14.13	and im not all too serious anyway, all is good, watching grimes trying to DJ http://boilerroom.tv/live/
thumbcrusher 08.14.13	this has also reminded me to listen to mono again, going to do that now
Ecksavie 08.14.13	Loving the suggestions guys, keep it coming (although I know some of the stuff and didn't include it purposely... tastes and all that). Checking out a whole of stuff now. And @SeaAnemone, I like to think I have heard quite a lot, but that's all relative I suppose, especially considering post- rock is such a vast genre with quite a lot of variation. Definitely don't think you're commenting shit though, I appreciate your suggestions a lot. Can't help but dig GIAA though. ;)
MO 08.14.13	yea you're missing some of the essentials but nice, more love for 2 is needed
SitarHero 08.14.13	I feel like Oceansize should be on here.
Ecksavie 08.14.13	Frames? ;)
SitarHero 08.14.13	Any of their albums actually.
thumbcrusher 08.14.13	i've had effloresce for ages and like it when i do listen to it but i don't have the urge to listen to it very much.
PitchforkArms 08.14.13	Is everyone forgetting Russian Cirlces?
EaglesBecomeVultures 08.14.13	SHORT NIGGA BUT MY DICK TALL
SitarHero 08.14.13	I've been trippin on Everyone into Position and Frames (to a lesser extent) quite a bit lately.
Ecksavie 08.14.13	I purposely avoided things with "explicit vocals" (I'm using the terms loosely here). Hence why some of the essentials are missing. But yeah, Russian Circles...
geasoftime 08.14.13	I can't understand how people consider Oceansize post-rock... I don't hear it. You seem like you're open for as many recs as possible, so here goes nothing: Jizue - Novel eF - Give Me Beauty or Give Me Death The American Dollar - A Memory Stream Jaga Jazzist - What We Must Collapse Under the Empire - Shoulders & Giants Leech - If We Get There One Day, Would You Please Open the Gates? Sleep Dealer - The Way Home Slow Six - Tomorrow Becomes You Caspian - The Four Trees Escape the Day - Ghostless The Evaptoria Report - Maar Jakob - Solace
Ecksavie 08.14.13	I wanted to include Jaga Jazzist, Collapse Under the Empire and Jacob, but 5 is a pretty small number. Some of the others are new to me too. Great list, Geas, thanks. And you're right, the post-rock label is being used quite freely. Either way, Oceansize is seriously good, who cares for labels right? ;)
UnnamedOcean 08.14.13	Oceansize has songs like Women Who Love Men... and Music for a Nurse, which are totally post-rock. They have similar guitar work and take influence from a lot of post-rock bands, so I would consider them to be on the fringe of post-rock.
EaglesBecomeVultures 08.14.13	you know sputnik's fucked when nobody EVER MENTIONS YNDI HALDA
geasoftime 08.14.13	Key mentioned them
Ecksavie 08.14.13	I'm listening to Enjoy Eternal Bliss right now. I can see why people would rave about this.
EaglesBecomeVultures 08.14.13	attaboy
Calc 08.14.13	you put 5 very popular post-rock acts, say you're avoiding the usual suspects, and name your list post-rock all stars.
Ecksavie 08.14.13	Touché
Gard3n 08.14.13	Talk Talk destroys this list any day.
Evreaia 08.14.13	No Jakob?
Ecksavie 08.14.13	@Calc: in my defense though, due to sputnik's elitism the usual suspects usually aren't the usual suspects in your conventional sense, making these the not-so-usual suspects. ;)
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	Yndi Halda has really grown off me over the years kinda similar to Mono in that what they do they do really well, but what they do is still pretty trite and cliche and kinda bores me and here Ecksavie check this out: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=313022&listid=101808
Ecksavie 08.14.13	A Bunny's Caravan. SeaAnemone, I love you. Also, great list. Some new names on there still, will check them out after I've covered all the others.
JS19 08.14.13	'Yndi Halda has really grown off me over the years kinda similar to Mono in that what they do they do really well, but what they do is still pretty trite and cliche and kinda bores me' What a load of absolute balls. Also, this list is boring boring boring. And cloudkicker is just plain wrong
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	I was the one that added ABC to the database / introduced them to Sputnik ; )
Keyblade 08.14.13	Agreed Sea to an extent. They're good for jamming maybe like once or twice a year. Those rare jams are sweet tho
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	"Agreed Sea to an extent. They're good for jamming maybe like once or twice a year. Those rare jams are sweet tho" agreed "What a load of absolute balls." well I mean you 5d a bunch of Sigur Ros albums which I would like 2.5 and a *shels album which I have as a 1 so I mean we have a little different taste in post-rock...
VisionsFromTheDarkSide 08.14.13	you know sputnik's fucked when nobody EVER MENTIONS YNDI HALDA [2]
Ecksavie 08.14.13	@Sea: haha, I knew your name looked familiar! What an album though, I think the Sputnik community will be forever grateful (or at least should be). @JS19: I'd love to see you do what he does. Whatever you may think, the man can make music.
JS19 08.14.13	Well if you actually looked at the *shels thread I explained my rating there. And the same with Valtari. Plus Agaetis Byrjun has been 5'd by a shedload of people but fair enough. And I doubt we have a different taste. I'm into pretty much all post rock - what d'you like?
JS19 08.14.13	'@JS19: I'd love to see you do what he does. Whatever you may think, the man can make music.' Whoa dude I never said I was better than cloukicker at making music where'd you get that. I meant his one post rock effort was pretty weak and the rest is a different genre. He definitely isn't a 'post rock all star'
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	"And I doubt we have a different taste. I'm into pretty much all post rock - what d'you like?" http://www.sputnikmusic.com/list.php?memberid=313022&listid=101808 it's a little dated as it's over a year old but much of it I'd consider the same
Scoot 08.14.13	yeah a bunny's caravan are sweet, been jamming that album a lot lately sleepmakeswaves are underappreciated as well
Ecksavie 08.14.13	@JS19: Fair enough, and I will agree, it's not the "best" post-rock release, but I have that album jamming quite frequently. It may not be as complex and deep as some of the things named here, but I can't help but feel it listens really well. I don't know, maybe that's just me. @Sea: You know that list needs Mogwai's My Father My King. ;)
Keyblade 08.14.13	I can jam sleepmakeswaves any day. Same with Jakob.
JS19 08.14.13	@Ecksavie - oh dw I really like some of his heavier albums. I just don't think one post rock album makes hima giant of the genre even if he is quite popular generally @SeaAnenome - I actually have every one of those albums apart from Storm and Stress the only one I don't dig is Spokes. Excellent taste man
SeaAnemone 08.14.13	I don't really like older Mogwai and JS19 check out Storm and Stress - it's really essential 90s stuff, spazzy and jazzy, it's my favorite "free-form" type post-rock
JS19 08.14.13	The only Mogwai I love is Hardcore... - older stuff hardly does anything for me And cheers man, usually jazzy stuff is the stuff I'm least likely to dig but I'll check it anyway thanks
Ecksavie 08.14.13	@JS10: All good. Yeah, Beacons is a beast of an album. Fade is pretty good too, it feels like Let Yourself Be Huge meets Beacons. But yes, Cloudkicker isn't a giant in there genre, but I have a lot of respect for him, so I'm terribly biased. Guys, seriously, do me a favour and listen to My Father My King; it's just one 20 minute track. I promise you, you will not regret it. ;)
EaglesBecomeVultures 08.14.13	what we should really all be doing is listening to that new native record on the real
tlhk 08.14.13	*shels
JS19 08.15.13	^ no
Ignimbrite 08.15.13	GY!BE Yndi Halda Leech Jakob Sigur Rós sleepmakeswaves these are the true essential post-rock bands
JS19 08.15.13	How about everyone stops pretending that the 'post rock all stars' are just the ones they like?
YakNips 08.15.13	You put Cloudkicker, I love you.
Ecksavie 08.15.13	@YakNips: :D @JS19: Very observant there mate. ;) Still, some good stuff in here. This list (and especially its comment) is a pretty good place to start for any post-rock enthousiast; I am a happy man.