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Post Rock is a subgenre of Alternative Rock that is characterized by odd time signatures, melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions. Another thing that most post rock has in common is that it's like Progressive Rock turned Up to Eleven. Basically the music is known for very lengthy quiet parts that can spend up to 10 minutes or more to build up to a gigantic wall of sound for the climax. This wall of sound may or may not last long in the music (Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not the climax was worth the quiet parts).

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  • Post Rock is a subgenre of Alternative Rock that is characterized by odd time signatures, melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions. Another thing that most post rock has in common is that it's like Progressive Rock turned Up to Eleven. Basically the music is known for very lengthy quiet parts that can spend up to 10 minutes or more to build up to a gigantic wall of sound for the climax. This wall of sound may or may not last long in the music (Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not the climax was worth the quiet parts).
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  • Post Rock is a subgenre of Alternative Rock that is characterized by odd time signatures, melodies, harmonies, and chord progressions. Another thing that most post rock has in common is that it's like Progressive Rock turned Up to Eleven. Basically the music is known for very lengthy quiet parts that can spend up to 10 minutes or more to build up to a gigantic wall of sound for the climax. This wall of sound may or may not last long in the music (Your Mileage May Vary on whether or not the climax was worth the quiet parts). Post Rock has a very confusing history. Some people credit The Velvet Underground for starting it with songs like "Heroin" which started off extremely quiet and ended in droney, massive climax. Other sources give credit to the "Krautrock" movement of The Sixties and The Seventies. All sources seem to agree that the movement "officially" started either in 1991, when Slint released their album Spiderland and Talk Talk released Laughing Stock, or in 1988, when Talk Talk relased Spirit of Eden. All three albums are considered classics and are extremely influential. The term "post-rock" itself is generally considered to have been introduced as a descriptor for music of this genre in a review of Bark Psychosis' 1994 album Hex by music journalist Simon Reynolds which appeared in Mojo in March of that year, although Reynolds claims to have used the term before that review. Reynolds clarified the term in an article for The Wire published later that year, describing it as music "using rock instrumentation for non-rock purposes, using guitars as facilitators of timbre and textures rather than riffs and power chords." Throughout the The Nineties bands such as Cul de Sac, Tortoise, Labradford, Bowery Electric and Stars of the Lid helped mold the genre into what it resembles now. The movement sparked mainly from three different cities with their own separate scenes: Chicago, Glasgow, and Montreal. Then, in the 2000's bands such as Mogwai, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, and Explosions in the Sky helped expand the genre even more. Then, a number of Sludge Metal bands started picking up on the genre, resulting in "post-metal" or "atmospheric sludge". Since then, the underground has been littered with Post Rock bands.
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