Posts Tagged ‘post-rock’

Jesu – Pale Sketches Review.

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He’s a Brummie and has had such ridiculous labels as ‘avant-pop’ and ‘avant-garde doom’ used to describe his music of the vintage of this album, but one thing about Justin Broadrick which cannot be in any way derided is his musical diversity: to have gone from the doom/industrial metal of Birmingham’s Godflesh [...]

Thursday/Envy Split Review

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To say that I’d been waiting for this with baited breath would be an understatement: Envy are simply brilliant and Thursday have always held some favour with me, even through the rocky A City By The Light Divided years. Spine-chilling album artwork and a seven-track listing of names far too long to be [...]

Post-rock.

Labourious and pretentious are probably the two most oft used adjectives in the description of post-rock, and, in spite of my love the genre, I’d probably agree with the two synopses. However, I would not do so with the terms taking a negative connotation. Sure, it may be a little hard to listen to at [...]

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