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| Top 10 Post-Rock Albums Featuring Vocals
For those of you looking for albums where instrumental passages not only play a vital role, but challenge the vocalists. These albums either influenced the creation of the post-rock genre and/or boast songs not constrained by radio-play length. | | 10 |  | Moving Mountains
Foreword EP
Moving Mountains' second release features better production and more variety, with even a slight post-hardcore influence on "With One's Heart in One's Mouth." | | 9 |  | Slint
Spiderland
I had to include it, right? Though slightly pretentious, there is no discounting Slint's huge impact on the genre. Mixing a kind of dirty, folksy indie style with experimental vocals (including spoken word), Slint creates a wholly unique atmosphere and a downright creepy Interstate soundtrack with tracks like "Washer." | | 8 |  | Vessels
White Fields and Open Devices
Vessels, a little-known U.K. band, blend indie math-rock with restrained sampling and downplayed vocals. "Happy Accident" is largely instrumental and features a sample from everyone's favorite instructional painter, while "Walking Through Walls" is a more pensive exercise. | | 7 |  | Moving Mountains
Pneuma
Post-rock emo? Maybe. Thought somewhat repetitive, Moving Mountain's first release is a lesson in adding vocals to mainstream post-rock's rise/fall, build-up structure. "8105" is full of great hooks and and catchy movements. | | 6 | | September Malevolence
After This Darkness, There's a Next
Mew's depressive cousin, Sweden's September Malevolence hits a huge growth spurt after their first album, releasing a gem in After this Darkness, There's a Next. Featuring long, acoustic instrumental sections, September Malevolence's high-timber vocalist peppers these somber ballads with just the right amount of vocals. "I Shut Doors and Windows" features a hard-hitting, infectious riff, while "The Descent" paints a more nightmarish landscape. | | 5 |  | Sigur Ros
Agaetis Byrjun
Agetis Byrjun pre-dates the higher-rated ( ) below, providing a wide variety of sounds, including horns, heavy bass-lines and longer instrumental passages. "Ny Batteri" is an emotional rollercoaster. | | 4 |  | Bark Psychosis
Codename: Dustsucker
Released a staggering 10 years after Hex, Bark Psychosis' last? proper LP sees Talk Talk's percussionist contributing his genius free-form style to create a vibe almost reminiscent of live trip-hop. Featuring a sublime female vocalist on a few of the tracks, this is arguably Bark Psychosis' most emotive release. | | 3 | | Sigur Ros
( )
Sigur Ros creates an album of untitled songs sung in gibberish because labels and any normal vocabulary would not be sufficient to contain the ambient, meandering beauty of ( ). Track 4 is like a eulogy to a forgotten dream. | | 2 |  | Bark Psychosis
Hex
The brooding stepson of late Talk Talk, Bark Psychosis borrow Laughing Stock's hybrid jazz and shape it into something wilder and darker. The first single "A Street Scene" reveals their playful side, while "Absent Friend" drips with melancholy. | | 1 |  | Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
Talk Talk's final release, the 1991 masterpiece melds shifting jazz with tortured, ethereal vocals to create a style and sound that has never managed to be matched. "After the Flood" will inspire you and "New Grass" will break your heart. | |
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07.06.10 | Will check them out, thanks. | tombits
07.06.10 | moving mountains are bleh but the rest of the list is good. check out o' brother's "the death of day". | coleba
07.06.10 | Streamed some O' Brother, pretty good stuff. | NOTINTHEFACE
07.06.10 | As far as I'm concerned, Lights Out Asia is the best post-rock band around. Check out the song "Radars over the Ghosts of Chernobyl". | Powerban
07.06.10 | Hollier mentioned a great one.
Hammock
Gregor Samsa
Rodan
Maybeshewill (2 songs with actual vocals, few more with audio clippings)
Mogwai (overrated)
Kyte (electro kinda post-rock)
Rivulets (minimalist acoustic stuff, but adds violins and a very good singer. it kinda fits in with the post-rock with vocals cliche)
Oceansize (kinda tough to call post-rock but w/e)
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while also on this topic, i think it's fitting to add in some post-hardcore that is influenced by post-rock.
Rinoa
The Coma Recovery
Suffocate For Fuck Sake
A Hope For Home - Realis
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