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  • noun Alternative form of post-rock.

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Examples

  • Making postrock versions of the super mario song never gets old.

    Singing A New Song SVGL 2009

  • ★ The Sea and Cake Tuesday Nearly two decades after it formed, this postrock quartet from Chicago remains a heady experimentalist group, inviting bouts of Latin drumming and electronic discordance into its knotty jazz structures.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

  • Comfortable postrock adventurism from the Texan cloudburst chasers.

    The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed BRAD WHEELER 2011

  • He and some friends at Morgan Park High School on the south side had a postrock band that he describes as a less-than-polished ripoff of Explosions in the Sky.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • "I think we need more postcoital and less postrock/Feels like the build-up takes forever but you never get me off."

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Add TwentyFourBit points out that postrock pioneer and current Japan resident O'Rourke produced

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2010

  • Add TwentyFourBit points out that postrock pioneer and current Japan resident O'Rourke produced

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2010

  • He and some friends at Morgan Park High School on the south side had a postrock band that he describes as a less-than-polished ripoff of Explosions in the Sky.

    Chicago Reader 2010

  • Add TwentyFourBit points out that postrock pioneer and current Japan resident O'Rourke produced

    Pitchfork: Latest News 2010

  • Take a hearty stock of of rhythm (as in TWO rhythm sections), add a liberal dose of dreampop-postrock guitar (a la Mogwai or Three Mile Pilot), drizzle in a tincture of emocore (of the ethereal harmony variety) and voila! you've got the formula for what ails ya.

    The Bay Bridged - San Francisco Bay Area Indie Music Ben Van Houten 2010

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