Favorite post-rock albums? ?

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Rock & Pop, what are your favorite post-rock albums? Here are some of my picks:

Godspeed You! Black Emperor - F#A# Infinity, Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven, Yanqui U.X.O, ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!

Swans - Soundtracks for the Blind, The Seer, To Be Kind, The Glowing Man

Sigur Ros - Agaetis byrjun, ( ), Takk...

Slint - Spiderland

Tortoise - Millions Now Living Will Never Die Talk Talk - Laughing StockBQ: Would you consider the Velvet Underground’s “Heroin” & King Crimson’s “Starless” to be early examples of post-rock? BQ2: Which decade was better for post-rock: The 90s, or the 2000s?

BQ3: Do you think that Can, NEU! & Faust led to post-rock?

BQ4: Can you see similarities, between post-rock & progressive rock?

Anonymous · Answer

Ok so I am going to answer all of that in one fell swoop.

This Heat: All post rock are direct descendants from this band.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h_P_5OTEAeM

"Can you see similarities, between post-rock & progressive rock?"
No. I guarantee you it took a lot more effort for Yes to the album "Tales From The Topographic Ocean" than it took Postal Service to record the album "Takk".

Nick · Answer

Post-rock is almost as boring and pretentious as prog rock. If the songs aren't simple, catchy, and about cars or girls I'm not interested

? · Answer

Mogwai - Mogwai Young Team
God Is an Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Godspeed You Black Emperor - F♯A♯∞
Líam - MMIX 
Daturah - Reverie
Massimo Volume - Da qui

BQ: I think VU have influenced post-rock a lot, for the sound *and well, listening to "starless" I would say absolutely yes, it's very post-rock in the middle part, from 4:30
BQ2: (maybe, but just maybe) 90's, late 90's-early 2000's
BQ3: Idk Can, NEU! & Faust
BQ4: perhaps in the complexity and duration of the compositions, there are many 'suites' in both genres. Otherwise they seem to me almost opposed to each other (lyrics absent or spoken in post-rock / preponderant and solemn in prog. music much more linear and sometimes repetitive in post -rock / extremely varied in the prog.) I know very little prog anyway.

HarveyB · Answer

You've mentioned a couple of mine by GY!BE. I'll add...
Mogwai — Come On Die Young
Sigur Rós — Ágætis byrjun

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