Your way in
Post-rock 1991
Rock instruments used for texture and crescendo rather than for choruses. The song climbs for ten minutes and detonates once.
- Heaviness
- 4
- Speed
- 3
- Melody
- 7
- Where from
- UK / Canada
- Tempo
- 60-140 bpm
- Song length
- 7-15 min
- Written about
- Mostly none - the great majority is instrumental, and the track titles carry whatever argument there is
- Vocals
- Instrumental
Why this one
| You said | Post-rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| No words at all When someone is singing, what should come out? | instrumental | 100% | ×3 |
| There, but not the point How much weight do you want behind it? | 4 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1991 | 100% | ×1 |
| Anger at something real What should the words be about? | Mostly none - the great majority is instrumental, and the track titles carry whatever argument there is | 0% | ×1 |
| No. Texture and force are enough. Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 7 out of 10 | 40% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 78% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, era 1, about 1, melody 1 out of 8. Post-rock leads the next by 2 points. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King 1969
King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King. The first track tells you everything.
- 2The one to put on first
Mogwai, Young Team 1997
Mogwai - Young Team. The closing track runs sixteen minutes and earns every one.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Progressive rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Post-rock's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Funk rock 76%
Slap bass and funk grooves under rock guitars. Rap rock, and through it nu metal, start here.
4 steps from Post-rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Funk rock -
Drone metal 75%
Sustained notes at extreme volume, with almost no rhythm. You listen with your body more than your ears.
On the other branch of the tree entirely, and 6 steps from Post-rock.
The way into Drone metal
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- No words at all put 33 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Grindcore. Worth 3 of 8.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 8.
- Anger at something real put 108 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Alternative rock, Black metal, Blues rock. Worth 1 of 8.
- No. Texture and force are enough. put 40 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Folk metal, Folk rock, Emo. Worth 1 of 8.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.