a thread for music in the vein of math rock, noise rock, post-rock, post-hardcore, slowcore, shoegaze, slacker rock, etc.
I'll start with three of my favourite albums from last year.
Fencing -- Fencing Wikipedia (Winnipeg)
>post-rock, art rock
I really loved the singles off this one but so many were released it killed some of my anticipation for it. Came back to it later and loved it. Simultaneously light-hearted, brooding, and tense. Worth listening to their old project called Urban Vacation too.
goldenstar -- self-titled (Montreal)
>post-rock, slowcore
Tight slowcore that nails the sound without being clichéd or boring. Effectively very slow, sparse post-rock. Male-female vocal dynamics are also really nice. They've got a second EP coming this spring, which they vary the sound on more and is also excellent (been listening to an advance copy).
Bracelet -- I Hear Bracelet (Montreal)
>post-punk, slacker rock
Catchy and vocals-forward with dense lyrics. Very fun to see live, and I'd seen them a bunch over 2025 leading up to the release show. Vocalist/guitarist and drummer previously released an album titled Dirger as part of the band Learning, which is also great.
>can't post links
shitty
Anonymous :
122 days ago :
No.8460
>>8462
>>8460
I remember that people used to talk about Public Strain a lot on /mu/, wasn't really my thing tho
>>8469>>8460
Love em. They were really influential too, especially in Canada. There were tons of bands here trying to sound like them, and you can still hear the sound in a lot of bands, even internationally.
Some cool post-punk:
>Sunforger -- Mono No Aware (Montreal)
Their self-titled after this one (they used to go by Mono No Aware) is also sick, but the concise songs here are special. Interviewed the band once and the lead said when he started learning guitar his goal was just to rip off Pat Flegel (Women's guitarist), but his music has come into its own since then.
>Patter -- Patter Theme 2 (Chicago)
Caught them live. Drums were insane. Drummer also has a project called Options I'd been a fan of a long time.
>Olympic Deth -- Peace Album (Salt Lake City)
Third Salt Lake City band I've caught on to. The other two (the Drin and Devils Cross Country) I'd categorise differently, with Olympic Deth being on its own as a spazzy solo project. Tesseract off Peace kicks ass.
>links still blocked
ack
Anyone remember the band Women?
>>8460
Anyone remember the band Women?
Love em. They were really influential too, especially in Canada. There were tons of bands here trying to sound like them, and you can still hear the sound in a lot of bands, even internationally.
Some cool post-punk:
>Sunforger -- Mono No Aware (Montreal)
Their self-titled after this one (they used to go by Mono No Aware) is also sick, but the concise songs here are special. Interviewed the band once and the lead said when he started learning guitar his goal was just to rip off Pat Flegel (Women's guitarist), but his music has come into its own since then.
>Patter -- Patter Theme 2 (Chicago)
Caught them live. Drums were insane. Drummer also has a project called Options I'd been a fan of a long time.
>Olympic Deth -- Peace Album (Salt Lake City)
Third Salt Lake City band I've caught on to. The other two (the Drin and Devils Cross Country) I'd categorise differently, with Olympic Deth being on its own as a spazzy solo project. Tesseract off Peace kicks ass.
>links still blocked
ack
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8474
>>8482
>>8474
Surface to Air Missive is sick, though I'd only listened to Shadows Leap up until your post. Surface II Air Missive was very good. His voice is terrific.
Have you ever listened to the Olivia Tremor Control? I imagine you'd like them, though Dusk at Cubist Castle is the only album of theirs I know well. They were from the same scene as Neutral Milk Hotel.
>>8649 I’m definitely very late to the Women fandom as an older zoomer, but I found them last year and can’t stop listening.
I will humbly put forth Surface To Air Missive as a suggestion for anons posting in this thread. They have a few successful songs on spotify but never really broke out when they should have. Really fun and chaotic guitar-centric music. My fav album of theirs is Surface II Air Missive, it definitely feels like their magnum opus.
Fav songs of theirs:
Life Is So Sad
Rosy
Big Night
Some Blues
>>8475
John Fahey is my favorite guitarist probably the best ever but he's not all this effect ridden sadcel stuff
Ignored
>>8469>>8460
Love em. They were really influential too, especially in Canada. There were tons of bands here trying to sound like them, and you can still hear the sound in a lot of bands, even internationally.
Some cool post-punk:
>Sunforger -- Mono No Aware (Montreal)
Their self-titled after this one (they used to go by Mono No Aware) is also sick, but the concise songs here are special. Interviewed the band once and the lead said when he started learning guitar his goal was just to rip off Pat Flegel (Women's guitarist), but his music has come into its own since then.
>Patter -- Patter Theme 2 (Chicago)
Caught them live. Drums were insane. Drummer also has a project called Options I'd been a fan of a long time.
>Olympic Deth -- Peace Album (Salt Lake City)
Third Salt Lake City band I've caught on to. The other two (the Drin and Devils Cross Country) I'd categorise differently, with Olympic Deth being on its own as a spazzy solo project. Tesseract off Peace kicks ass.
>links still blocked
ack
Listened to these on my commute today, good recs anon
Anonymous :
121 days ago :
No.8482
>>8487
>>8482
if you haven't heard it you should listen to Black Foliage too
>>8488>>8482
Another good rec, cheers. These guys have come up on my recommendations a bunch but this is the first time I've actually given them a proper listen. Definitely hearing some sounds on Black Foliage that I wouldn't mind coming back around.
The titular track has what sounds like a harmonium (or chord organ?) in the background, and lately I've been totally baffled by how sporadic these are in indie music in spite of how sick they can sound. You can pick up those old Magnus chord organs on facebook marketplace for dirt cheap and they sound great.
But I digress, this is a guitar thread hahaha
>>8474
>>8649 I’m definitely very late to the Women fandom as an older zoomer, but I found them last year and can’t stop listening.
I will humbly put forth Surface To Air Missive as a suggestion for anons posting in this thread. They have a few successful songs on spotify but never really broke out when they should have. Really fun and chaotic guitar-centric music. My fav album of theirs is Surface II Air Missive, it definitely feels like their magnum opus.
Fav songs of theirs:
Life Is So Sad
Rosy
Big Night
Some Blues
Surface to Air Missive is sick, though I'd only listened to Shadows Leap up until your post. Surface II Air Missive was very good. His voice is terrific.
Have you ever listened to the Olivia Tremor Control? I imagine you'd like them, though Dusk at Cubist Castle is the only album of theirs I know well. They were from the same scene as Neutral Milk Hotel.
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8487
>>8491
>>8487
>Black Foliage
Will put it on my list. Dusk at Cubist Castle is a very warm-months album to me so I'll probably save it for around then. Ever listened to the Gerbils?
>>8488
Glad you liked it. I'll dig through my music library for more rock albums with varied instruments like that. Rugh initially came to mind because I thought they had flute on their album, but nope. Anyway, you might like them. Their album Rug is very good, and I think the vocals and instrumentation might appeal to you as a Surface to Air Missive fan if you like an exchange of male-->female and prog-y-->math-y. Doesn't have StAM's barelling sort of progression and goes for a more post-hardcore/-rock build-and-release.
>>8482
>>8474
Surface to Air Missive is sick, though I'd only listened to Shadows Leap up until your post. Surface II Air Missive was very good. His voice is terrific.
Have you ever listened to the Olivia Tremor Control? I imagine you'd like them, though Dusk at Cubist Castle is the only album of theirs I know well. They were from the same scene as Neutral Milk Hotel.
if you haven't heard it you should listen to Black Foliage too
Anonymous :
120 days ago :
No.8488
>>8491
>>8487
>Black Foliage
Will put it on my list. Dusk at Cubist Castle is a very warm-months album to me so I'll probably save it for around then. Ever listened to the Gerbils?
>>8488
Glad you liked it. I'll dig through my music library for more rock albums with varied instruments like that. Rugh initially came to mind because I thought they had flute on their album, but nope. Anyway, you might like them. Their album Rug is very good, and I think the vocals and instrumentation might appeal to you as a Surface to Air Missive fan if you like an exchange of male-->female and prog-y-->math-y. Doesn't have StAM's barelling sort of progression and goes for a more post-hardcore/-rock build-and-release.
>>8482
>>8474
Surface to Air Missive is sick, though I'd only listened to Shadows Leap up until your post. Surface II Air Missive was very good. His voice is terrific.
Have you ever listened to the Olivia Tremor Control? I imagine you'd like them, though Dusk at Cubist Castle is the only album of theirs I know well. They were from the same scene as Neutral Milk Hotel.
Another good rec, cheers. These guys have come up on my recommendations a bunch but this is the first time I've actually given them a proper listen. Definitely hearing some sounds on Black Foliage that I wouldn't mind coming back around.
The titular track has what sounds like a harmonium (or chord organ?) in the background, and lately I've been totally baffled by how sporadic these are in indie music in spite of how sick they can sound. You can pick up those old Magnus chord organs on facebook marketplace for dirt cheap and they sound great.
But I digress, this is a guitar thread hahaha
>>8487
>>8482
if you haven't heard it you should listen to Black Foliage too
>Black Foliage
Will put it on my list. Dusk at Cubist Castle is a very warm-months album to me so I'll probably save it for around then. Ever listened to the Gerbils?
>>8488>>8482
Another good rec, cheers. These guys have come up on my recommendations a bunch but this is the first time I've actually given them a proper listen. Definitely hearing some sounds on Black Foliage that I wouldn't mind coming back around.
The titular track has what sounds like a harmonium (or chord organ?) in the background, and lately I've been totally baffled by how sporadic these are in indie music in spite of how sick they can sound. You can pick up those old Magnus chord organs on facebook marketplace for dirt cheap and they sound great.
But I digress, this is a guitar thread hahaha
Glad you liked it. I'll dig through my music library for more rock albums with varied instruments like that. Rugh initially came to mind because I thought they had flute on their album, but nope. Anyway, you might like them. Their album Rug is very good, and I think the vocals and instrumentation might appeal to you as a Surface to Air Missive fan if you like an exchange of male-->female and prog-y-->math-y. Doesn't have StAM's barelling sort of progression and goes for a more post-hardcore/-rock build-and-release.
I really like this piece by the artist Jacques Charlier:
youtube . com /watch?v=S9kpdfKmOEg
mbv - you made me realise greatest noise rock ep of all time
Anonymous :
117 days ago :
No.8505
>>8506
>>8505
What do they have to whine about now, they're like 50 and trying to participate in an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre. This is like metal bands continuing to release albums when the members are already well into their 60s. Just let it go man. What a weird stuck culture.
>>8523>>8505
I saw, but I've only listened to their original album. What are the follow-ups like? And have you listened to Owls? They were a mathier off-shoot of the original Cap'n Jazz lineup.
>>8506
>an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre
>What a weird stuck culture.
Thinking a genre has to be defined by a particular age or mindset is what makes it "stuck," and how you end up with endless clichés.
Apparently there's going to be a new americ anfootball album?
Anonymous :
117 days ago :
No.8506
>>8523
>>8505
I saw, but I've only listened to their original album. What are the follow-ups like? And have you listened to Owls? They were a mathier off-shoot of the original Cap'n Jazz lineup.
>>8506
>an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre
>What a weird stuck culture.
Thinking a genre has to be defined by a particular age or mindset is what makes it "stuck," and how you end up with endless clichés.
>>8505
Apparently there's going to be a new americ anfootball album?
What do they have to whine about now, they're like 50 and trying to participate in an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre. This is like metal bands continuing to release albums when the members are already well into their 60s. Just let it go man. What a weird stuck culture.
Anonymous :
116 days ago :
No.8523
>>8524
>>8523
I listened to the third album when it came out, it was fine. Can't say I remember much about it though. Even when I was 19 I found them a bit angsty, I don't think I could take them seriously now.
>>8505
Apparently there's going to be a new americ anfootball album?
I saw, but I've only listened to their original album. What are the follow-ups like? And have you listened to Owls? They were a mathier off-shoot of the original Cap'n Jazz lineup.
>>8506>>8505
What do they have to whine about now, they're like 50 and trying to participate in an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre. This is like metal bands continuing to release albums when the members are already well into their 60s. Just let it go man. What a weird stuck culture.
>an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre
>What a weird stuck culture.
Thinking a genre has to be defined by a particular age or mindset is what makes it "stuck," and how you end up with endless clichés.
>>8523
>>8505
I saw, but I've only listened to their original album. What are the follow-ups like? And have you listened to Owls? They were a mathier off-shoot of the original Cap'n Jazz lineup.
>>8506
>an inherently young and youthfully angsty genre
>What a weird stuck culture.
Thinking a genre has to be defined by a particular age or mindset is what makes it "stuck," and how you end up with endless clichés.
I listened to the third album when it came out, it was fine. Can't say I remember much about it though. Even when I was 19 I found them a bit angsty, I don't think I could take them seriously now.
Was listening to the new album by memory card almost exclusively for a couple weeks:
>Siren Surf Hurricane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOG_qTXNjZM
Was already a big fan of his previous albums, but Siren Surf Hurricane feels a lot more cohesive and filled out; in an interview he did, it sounded like his old albums were closer to bundles of complete experiments. Varied, concise songs with a looser connection were something I appreciated (there's a similar appeal in Now! More Charm & More Tender by Pee, or some of the old Options albums), but the new one has pretty much usurped all the old albums for me. The only streaming release of the album so far is on YouTube, and apparently he's sold out of the CDs he had up on Bandcamp.
Pic rel is an album insert. Whatever the real album art is seems ambiguous.
Listen to Airs or his work with Robert Crotty. Those are his most accessible records, albeit of the free improvisational idiom.
Anonymous :
31 days ago :
No.10100
>>10107
>>10100
I was so obsessed with Elverum when I was younger. Still occupies a pretty singular place in this landscape.
Greg Malcom's Six Strings is pure acoustic bliss. Much rec.
ahem bump ahem
posting some of the stuff from the other thread:
>Mount Eerie solo session on KCSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDW2ZyF2ZDE
>"Singers" by Mount Eerie (but in big impromptu group versions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMcvr01HTXE
>"Racehorse: Get Married!" live by Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum (snippet of album release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloBFYwrJsk
>full album release performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3SDTkR3rU
Really love Singers.
Anonymous :
31 days ago :
No.10107
>>10605
>>10107
>Greg Malcom's Six Strings
I came across a couple albums that might appeal to you, though they're more like post-rock:
>Cancer House - the Moth (very slow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13gsYzok2c
>Able Noise - High Tide (more angular)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-FvVyj_ls
And have you ever listened to German Error Message? I haven't listened to him extensively, but what I remember of his early albums is that they were Phil worship, but at least his most recent strikes out on its own. Interesting when people move from imitation towards something more unique, since I think that's the sort of fundamental trajectory of art as a skill.
>>10610>>10107
>>10605
Now that I know I can post Bandcamp links:
motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-moth
ablenoise.bandcamp.com/album/high-tide
Also old German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/the-lifting
to latest German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/german-error-message
>>10100
ahem bump ahem
posting some of the stuff from the other thread:
>Mount Eerie solo session on KCSB
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDW2ZyF2ZDE
>"Singers" by Mount Eerie (but in big impromptu group versions)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMcvr01HTXE
>"Racehorse: Get Married!" live by Jordaan Mason & the Horse Museum (snippet of album release)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mloBFYwrJsk
>full album release performance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH3SDTkR3rU
Really love Singers.
I was so obsessed with Elverum when I was younger. Still occupies a pretty singular place in this landscape.
Greg Malcom's Six Strings is pure acoustic bliss. Much rec.
Anonymous :
3 days ago :
No.10605
>>10610
>>10107
>>10605
Now that I know I can post Bandcamp links:
motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-moth
ablenoise.bandcamp.com/album/high-tide
Also old German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/the-lifting
to latest German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/german-error-message
>>10107
>>10100
I was so obsessed with Elverum when I was younger. Still occupies a pretty singular place in this landscape.
Greg Malcom's Six Strings is pure acoustic bliss. Much rec.
>Greg Malcom's Six Strings
I came across a couple albums that might appeal to you, though they're more like post-rock:
>Cancer House - the Moth (very slow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13gsYzok2c
>Able Noise - High Tide (more angular)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-FvVyj_ls
And have you ever listened to German Error Message? I haven't listened to him extensively, but what I remember of his early albums is that they were Phil worship, but at least his most recent strikes out on its own. Interesting when people move from imitation towards something more unique, since I think that's the sort of fundamental trajectory of art as a skill.
>>10107
>>10100
I was so obsessed with Elverum when I was younger. Still occupies a pretty singular place in this landscape.
Greg Malcom's Six Strings is pure acoustic bliss. Much rec.
>>10605>>10107
>Greg Malcom's Six Strings
I came across a couple albums that might appeal to you, though they're more like post-rock:
>Cancer House - the Moth (very slow)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P13gsYzok2c
>Able Noise - High Tide (more angular)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0n-FvVyj_ls
And have you ever listened to German Error Message? I haven't listened to him extensively, but what I remember of his early albums is that they were Phil worship, but at least his most recent strikes out on its own. Interesting when people move from imitation towards something more unique, since I think that's the sort of fundamental trajectory of art as a skill.
Now that I know I can post Bandcamp links:
motionward.bandcamp.com/album/the-moth
ablenoise.bandcamp.com/album/high-tide
Also old German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/the-lifting
to latest German Error Message:
germanerrormessage.bandcamp.com/album/german-error-message