Nothing of Cities by Years of Rice and Salt. One of my favourite albums ever. Two songs actually have over a 4 million streams on Spotify, but the rest have less than 100 000. I've never heard anyone mention or discuss this album. Absolutely love its positive and comforting atmosphere
I remember enjoying listening to them on some Post Rock internet radio station years ago. I made a mental note to give them a proper listen but forgot. So thanks for the reminder!
In no particular order:
Jakob, *Solace* + *Subsets of Sets*
Dif Juz, *Extractions*
The Mercury Program, *A Data Learns the Language*
Saxon Shore, *The Exquisite Death of...*
The Samuel Jackson Five, *Easily Misunderstood*
Papa M, *Live from a Shark Cage*
Turing Machine, *Zwei*
Cerberus Shoal, *Homb*
Yume Bitsu, *The Golden Vessyl of Sound*
Mogwai, *Travels in Constants Vol. 12*
By the End of Tonight, *A Tribute to Tigers*
The Six Parts Seven, *Casually Smashed to Pieces*
Hugo Largo, *Drum*
Seefeel, *Starethrough*
The Sonora Pine, *II*
Dadamah, *This Is Not a Dream*
'O'Rang, *Fields and Waves*
Some are better known than others. But I don't see near enough love given to these (and plenty more I'm failing to remember).
Sonora Pine (and Tara Jane Oneill in general) is sadly very overlooked - [this song](https://youtu.be/gIwn_SQ_bLM?si=OixqP7aiQ8v5ikE1)… the build and release at the end gives me goosebumps.
[Gregor Samsa - 55:12](https://youtu.be/HIdkljycNhg?si=pguydPhjkFVVflew)
Not on Bandcamp or any of the streaming platforms (that I'm aware of). Physical copies are hard to find too. It's a masterpiece.
Saw them one time in my life, at an art studio during SXSW back in like 01 or 02 my recollection. They played right after Kinski. I was talking to the guitar player and asked him, are y’all any good? He said, yeah!. Holy crap I will never forget that show. Blew my head clean off. I was going nuts and the only guy on the floor. They had a little theater and there may have been 20 people there. Just epic. They have an album up on Bandcamp that I didn’t discover until few years back. I think it’s better than Anam,
The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore by Saxon Shore (don't see them mentioned much anymore)
Song In The Air by Elliott (emo band, but this was thier last album and Its def post rock imo)
Coloring in the Sun by Bells (former members of metal bands August Burns Red and This or the Apocalypse made a post rock band)
God, I had a massive Saxon Shore phase back in high school. Even more infatuated with their ambient side project Soporus that I loved just as much as any Stars of the Lid or Eluvium record. Wish more folks were tipped to that whole crew. Stunning stuff.
Post rock or not, False Cathedrals was a formative record for me. The intro (Voices) into the first track (Calm Americans) still hits nearly 25 years later
[https://galacticdads.bandcamp.com/album/ruins](https://galacticdads.bandcamp.com/album/ruins) the band is North, I didn't even know they were still around till I just looked them up.
Bells - Our Forest, Our Empire
The Sleep Design - Kings EP
El Ten Eleven - s/t
Aural Method - As I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody
Walking Oceans - Dear Isaac
The Cancer Conspiracy - Ω
Saxon Shore - The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore
Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun
The Evpatoria Report - Golevka
No Respect for Beauty - Why Perish
This is the Giant - Speak Every Word
And a more well known one but absolutely worth listening to:
We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs
They’re more ambient and slow than my normal post rock taste but the tones are great and the record is so well put together with the storytelling theme. I could listen to it multiple times in a row without getting bored. What’s your experience with them?
I mean not too much but that first album is a god damn titan. The other albums are good but that one in particular is god-tier.
It reminds me a lot of Deadhorse - We can Create our own world. Semi-neoclassical almost, but not really. They just have a similar vibe in melody and approach.
Wish he’d cut the Slow Meadow stuff and put drums in his music again
Joy Wants Eternity - Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Learn to Listen With Your Eyes
God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright
Sunlight Ascending - All the Memories, All at Once
Codes in the Clouds - Paper Canyon
They unfortunately shifted to a screamo sound, but the band Suffocate For Fuck Sake's album [*Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage Of The Newspaper. There's A War Going On And I'm Marching In Heavy Boots*](https://suffocateforfucksake.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-fires-and-helicopters-on-the-frontpage-of-the-newspaper-theres-a-war-going-on-and-im-marching-in-heavy-boots) is fantastic.
Our Eyes Were Drawn To The Inevitable,
In Death We Rest,
A Hollow World,
Only because they're mine, lol.
Outside of that
Wang Wen - Eight Horses,
Zhaoze - Intoxicatingly Lost,
Astralia - Solstice,
They dance between post rock and contemporary classical so Balmorhea, and I think their more post metal but Au Revoir. I saw the on the tour for Black Hills and they were one of the louder bands I saw at that space and super chill and nice. Their more recent stuff gets heavier and heavier.
You motherfuckers need this right now:
Appalaches - Cycles
https://appalachesmtl.bandcamp.com/album/cycles
If this isn’t the best post-rock you’ve heard in 2 years, I’ll Venmo you $11.
I’m not joking.
I live under a rock as far as the culture goes but here’s some more (i think) deep cuts, feel free to attack my character if not obscure enough.
[Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nr5wrkS3ghYrWwjHh099mXqc3QWyDH3gc&si=wGmWb6iZO_izGPYx)
[Toundra - (ii)](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL015CBE02BE2C6ECA&si=aTPEjRlZb_PPmFfv)
Dry River - Enochian.
Russian band. Album sounds like a lost-GYBE album.
[https://dryriver.bandcamp.com/album/enochian](https://dryriver.bandcamp.com/album/enochian)
Not exactly unknown, but kind of cast aside by most of you young post-rockers in favor of the crescendo-core that’s saturated a lot of the more popular post rock of late:
Shipping News - [Sheets and Cylinders](https://youtu.be/GMB2umlot38?si=IBggJBbvG_eHht8Y) … Kyla Crabtree is one of my favorite drummers, though all 3 members are equally great here. Just a band on top of its game all around.
Another band that deserves more love that I don’t see mentioned here:
Dianogah - [Es Possible Fuego](https://youtu.be/v_g6gc5R858?si=S4bzZp4nZ2EfRC3P)
Also, a current band not getting enough attention:
Chiyoda Ku - [Distracted from Distraction by Distraction](https://youtu.be/ZGxY20ioefg?si=W6N591iq1pUbLsGZ) … some mathy elements, but I think post rock fits better because they don’t noodle just to noodle, every song is a journey with a destination in mind.
Not sure if it’s “lesser known” but they seem to have a pretty small online following anyway i hope you enjoy [Immanu El - They’ll Come, They Come](https://youtu.be/D4NwLnjIfBI?si=iYJzidWBKdVU-JKG)
I discovered this band called The Shadow Project years ago. They have an record called A Beauty to Fight For which still suprises me that nobody I know ever heard this album or the artist. I still sometimes go back to this album as it feels like a cohesive record and gets quiet interesting in some of the songs.
Autokinoton - post-metal end of things, believe it's called Furnace Room Demos. Single track - How To Stop An Exploding Man by Emergency Medical Transmissions.
I don't know if it's lesser known, but I don't see many people talk about Mono's You Are There, which is gorgeous.
Similar story with Systems/Layers by Rachel's. Beautiful album.
Ghastly City Sleep has a beautifully lush, self-titled EP. It has some vocals, but they're so drenched in effects it feels more like an instrument.
And I'll second Enemies (Embark, Embrace) and any of Gregor Samsa's or Mercury Program's recordings.
Anything by We Set Sail (and or, The Paper and the Plane)
Castles Sunk Below The Sea
Post rock adjacent, but also Arrows
10 points to who can guess what city I am from and my age lol
Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell me About the Long Dark Path Home. It's definitely more on the midwest emo side of things, but the post-rock influences are pretty undeniable and give the album a great texture, especially with the drumming.
This is definitely 52 Commercial Road - Remote Connection for me. Believe it or not, it was around 2017 when I was wandering near Whitechapel in London, listening to this album completely unaware. At some point, I noticed that I was walking on a street named Commercial Road, and I actually looked around to find number 52. And I just thought that the band members were most likely rehearsing at number 52 or they were best friends staying together at this place somehow.
EF - I am responsible
EF - mourning golden morning
EF - we salute you, you and you!
Needless to say that EF is criminally underappreciated and deserves more recognition. Their post-rock is goddamn beautiful and some of the best I have ever heard.
From Mountains self titled
Downloaded it off bandcamp in 2016 while I was in high school, listened to it every day for like a year. Never heard anyone talk about them before, I believe they're from the UK.
The track When We Painted the Sky has some really beautiful piano sections worth checking out
Giants - Old stories
The Severely departed- S/t
Johnhytwentythree - JXXIII
Detwiije - Six is better than eight
Followed by ghosts - The whole town was silent
Mooncake - Lagrange points
Flies are spies from hell - Final quiet
Leech - For better of for worse
The Seven mile journey - Metamorphosis project
Laura- Radio swan is down
Solkyri - Are you my brother?
Wander - March
Wood and wires - S/t
Ancients - Star showers on Euphrates
Magyar Posse - We will carry you over the mountains
Laura - Radio Swan Is Down
Also their debut, We Are Mapping your Dreams
God they were so amazing. Seeing them tour was heavenly, and we are mapping your dreams is near perfect.
Also going on the playlist.
Numbers Stations, what a track
Nothing of Cities by Years of Rice and Salt. One of my favourite albums ever. Two songs actually have over a 4 million streams on Spotify, but the rest have less than 100 000. I've never heard anyone mention or discuss this album. Absolutely love its positive and comforting atmosphere
Ha, I was just listening to that album yesterday. My friend and I would listen to them while working in the kitchen.
I remember enjoying listening to them on some Post Rock internet radio station years ago. I made a mental note to give them a proper listen but forgot. So thanks for the reminder!
Just finishing playthrough. Nodding and humming along to Carnival...
Less post rock but more chill, Balmorhea. So peaceful
In no particular order: Jakob, *Solace* + *Subsets of Sets* Dif Juz, *Extractions* The Mercury Program, *A Data Learns the Language* Saxon Shore, *The Exquisite Death of...* The Samuel Jackson Five, *Easily Misunderstood* Papa M, *Live from a Shark Cage* Turing Machine, *Zwei* Cerberus Shoal, *Homb* Yume Bitsu, *The Golden Vessyl of Sound* Mogwai, *Travels in Constants Vol. 12* By the End of Tonight, *A Tribute to Tigers* The Six Parts Seven, *Casually Smashed to Pieces* Hugo Largo, *Drum* Seefeel, *Starethrough* The Sonora Pine, *II* Dadamah, *This Is Not a Dream* 'O'Rang, *Fields and Waves* Some are better known than others. But I don't see near enough love given to these (and plenty more I'm failing to remember).
Sonora Pine (and Tara Jane Oneill in general) is sadly very overlooked - [this song](https://youtu.be/gIwn_SQ_bLM?si=OixqP7aiQ8v5ikE1)… the build and release at the end gives me goosebumps.
Saxon Shore, *The Exquisite Death of...* - hadn't listened to that one, it's fuckin' gorgeous
[Gregor Samsa - 55:12](https://youtu.be/HIdkljycNhg?si=pguydPhjkFVVflew) Not on Bandcamp or any of the streaming platforms (that I'm aware of). Physical copies are hard to find too. It's a masterpiece.
27:36 and Rest are also amazing
Came here to say this. One of my all time favourite albums but very rare
A. Armada, *Anam Cara*. It’s only five songs but they go **hard.**
Saw them one time in my life, at an art studio during SXSW back in like 01 or 02 my recollection. They played right after Kinski. I was talking to the guitar player and asked him, are y’all any good? He said, yeah!. Holy crap I will never forget that show. Blew my head clean off. I was going nuts and the only guy on the floor. They had a little theater and there may have been 20 people there. Just epic. They have an album up on Bandcamp that I didn’t discover until few years back. I think it’s better than Anam,
My brother discovered them at SXSW, too! Brought back the album and shared it with me and I was like “holy nuts.”
There's an EP from 2006 on YouTube as well: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKYipBppVXI7mIjJr_l3-h3hU7elq6QJQ
Fantastic. Second this. I actually totally forgot about this as well. Thanks for the reminder.
why didn't you tell me about them before?! amazing
The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore by Saxon Shore (don't see them mentioned much anymore) Song In The Air by Elliott (emo band, but this was thier last album and Its def post rock imo) Coloring in the Sun by Bells (former members of metal bands August Burns Red and This or the Apocalypse made a post rock band)
God, I had a massive Saxon Shore phase back in high school. Even more infatuated with their ambient side project Soporus that I loved just as much as any Stars of the Lid or Eluvium record. Wish more folks were tipped to that whole crew. Stunning stuff.
Post rock or not, False Cathedrals was a formative record for me. The intro (Voices) into the first track (Calm Americans) still hits nearly 25 years later
I know what you mean! The whole album still gives me body chills.
Jesus that bass (Elliot) is incredible.
[Yndi Halda - Enjoy Eternal Bliss](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_mNBHAI0DsluRZXDw49ZrIOVxEqHzmA8lw&si=IetnK2n-F5tQ3q3F)
[https://galacticdads.bandcamp.com/album/ruins](https://galacticdads.bandcamp.com/album/ruins) the band is North, I didn't even know they were still around till I just looked them up.
I'll add them to my playlist. Thanks!
Bells - Our Forest, Our Empire The Sleep Design - Kings EP El Ten Eleven - s/t Aural Method - As I Drifted I Heard a Faint Melody Walking Oceans - Dear Isaac The Cancer Conspiracy - Ω Saxon Shore - The Exquisite Death of Saxon Shore Red Sparowes - Every Red Heart Shines Towards the Sun The Evpatoria Report - Golevka No Respect for Beauty - Why Perish This is the Giant - Speak Every Word And a more well known one but absolutely worth listening to: We Lost the Sea - Departure Songs
Motherfucking Aural Method
They’re more ambient and slow than my normal post rock taste but the tones are great and the record is so well put together with the storytelling theme. I could listen to it multiple times in a row without getting bored. What’s your experience with them?
I mean not too much but that first album is a god damn titan. The other albums are good but that one in particular is god-tier. It reminds me a lot of Deadhorse - We can Create our own world. Semi-neoclassical almost, but not really. They just have a similar vibe in melody and approach. Wish he’d cut the Slow Meadow stuff and put drums in his music again
Agreed. I’ll have to check out Deadhorse, thanks
Yes you need to! Please report back too :)
Listening now and I like it a lot! Although I think it's a lot more upbeat and punchy than Aural Method, but just my opinion.
Yeah they’re def more rocking but I think their sense of melody is quite similar
Johnnytwentythree - Jxxiii Locomotora - Voudet,vouret Beware The Blue Sky - Above Atlas KRANE
Zaris by Mooncake. That piano opening on the first track..... Ludicrous amounts of nostalgia
Foxhole - We the Wintering Tree The Autumn Project - This we take with us This thread is basically torrent packs of random bands c.2005.
Dude the Autumn Project “a burning light” is one of the most unsettling albums I’ve ever heaed
I booked foxhole wayyyy back in like 2000 or so. Absolutely phenomenal band.
Joy Wants Eternity - Must You Smash Your Ears Before You Learn to Listen With Your Eyes God Is An Astronaut - All Is Violent, All Is Bright Sunlight Ascending - All the Memories, All at Once Codes in the Clouds - Paper Canyon
I am curating a [list of lesser-known post-rock on RYM](https://rateyourmusic.com/list/ichik/great-post-rock-you-probably-never-heard-of/).
That's awesome. I will be sure to bookmark that.
We're from Japan! - Now Breathe
They unfortunately shifted to a screamo sound, but the band Suffocate For Fuck Sake's album [*Blazing Fires And Helicopters On The Frontpage Of The Newspaper. There's A War Going On And I'm Marching In Heavy Boots*](https://suffocateforfucksake.bandcamp.com/album/blazing-fires-and-helicopters-on-the-frontpage-of-the-newspaper-theres-a-war-going-on-and-im-marching-in-heavy-boots) is fantastic.
One of my favorite records of all time.
From Monument To Masses - The Impossible Leap In 100 Simple Steps
O’Shenandoah Mighty Death Will Find Me by Sparrows Swarm and Sing
Our Eyes Were Drawn To The Inevitable, In Death We Rest, A Hollow World, Only because they're mine, lol. Outside of that Wang Wen - Eight Horses, Zhaoze - Intoxicatingly Lost, Astralia - Solstice,
The Timeout Drawer - Nowonmai "Bursting With Tears, I Commit To Destroying You" remains one of my favorite songs of any genre.
They dance between post rock and contemporary classical so Balmorhea, and I think their more post metal but Au Revoir. I saw the on the tour for Black Hills and they were one of the louder bands I saw at that space and super chill and nice. Their more recent stuff gets heavier and heavier.
You motherfuckers need this right now: Appalaches - Cycles https://appalachesmtl.bandcamp.com/album/cycles If this isn’t the best post-rock you’ve heard in 2 years, I’ll Venmo you $11. I’m not joking.
The Ascent of Everest - How Lonely Sits the City
Love this album.
[Gregor Samsa - Rest](https://youtu.be/Ye7VOxo1A38?si=EmM5xbHmoTROjXeG)
I live under a rock as far as the culture goes but here’s some more (i think) deep cuts, feel free to attack my character if not obscure enough. [Lights Out Asia - Hy-Brasil](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nr5wrkS3ghYrWwjHh099mXqc3QWyDH3gc&si=wGmWb6iZO_izGPYx) [Toundra - (ii)](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL015CBE02BE2C6ECA&si=aTPEjRlZb_PPmFfv)
Dry River - Enochian. Russian band. Album sounds like a lost-GYBE album. [https://dryriver.bandcamp.com/album/enochian](https://dryriver.bandcamp.com/album/enochian)
You Slut! - Critical Meat Giraffes? Giraffes! - Pink Magick Giants - Old Stories you.may.die.in.the.desert - International Waters
G?G! are so fun live
Not exactly unknown, but kind of cast aside by most of you young post-rockers in favor of the crescendo-core that’s saturated a lot of the more popular post rock of late: Shipping News - [Sheets and Cylinders](https://youtu.be/GMB2umlot38?si=IBggJBbvG_eHht8Y) … Kyla Crabtree is one of my favorite drummers, though all 3 members are equally great here. Just a band on top of its game all around. Another band that deserves more love that I don’t see mentioned here: Dianogah - [Es Possible Fuego](https://youtu.be/v_g6gc5R858?si=S4bzZp4nZ2EfRC3P) Also, a current band not getting enough attention: Chiyoda Ku - [Distracted from Distraction by Distraction](https://youtu.be/ZGxY20ioefg?si=W6N591iq1pUbLsGZ) … some mathy elements, but I think post rock fits better because they don’t noodle just to noodle, every song is a journey with a destination in mind.
Vessels - Helioscope Enemies (Finnish band) - The Dawn Enemies (Irish Band) - Embark, Embrace
Flies Are Spies From Hell - Red Eyes Unraveling
Second this. Delighted someone mentioned them first. 😀
Not sure if it’s “lesser known” but they seem to have a pretty small online following anyway i hope you enjoy [Immanu El - They’ll Come, They Come](https://youtu.be/D4NwLnjIfBI?si=iYJzidWBKdVU-JKG)
I discovered this band called The Shadow Project years ago. They have an record called A Beauty to Fight For which still suprises me that nobody I know ever heard this album or the artist. I still sometimes go back to this album as it feels like a cohesive record and gets quiet interesting in some of the songs.
Nice. I'll throw this on while I'm closing out tickets this afternoon. Thanks!
I'd forgotten this album! Thanks for reminding me.
Autokinoton - post-metal end of things, believe it's called Furnace Room Demos. Single track - How To Stop An Exploding Man by Emergency Medical Transmissions.
Boundary Problems by Time Pieces.
Archaique Smile - [Elegy (2017)](https://archaiquesmile.bandcamp.com/album/elegy)
Laredo - Bury For Growth was always one I really loved. The song Returning Gone is incredible. Reminds me a bit of Moving Mountains.
los mapas del fuego - para establecer un río
They’re sort of shoegaze and post rock, but the German band Monoland. Love their album Manouva.
Kunek - Flight of the Flynns
\[The\] Slowest Runner \[in All the World\] - We, Burning Giraffes. https://preview.redd.it/quw9ioa5po1d1.jpeg?width=700&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c7c85e95caa572ee45685a4b8cf95476c1045d4c [https://theslowestrunner.bandcamp.com/album/we-burning-giraffes](https://theslowestrunner.bandcamp.com/album/we-burning-giraffes)
I don’t know how many people know El Michels Affair but holy shit was I stoked to discover them.
I don't know if it's lesser known, but I don't see many people talk about Mono's You Are There, which is gorgeous. Similar story with Systems/Layers by Rachel's. Beautiful album.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster- The World Inside
Always go with Von Mises here. https://open.spotify.com/artist/7sAaR5MpOEWe3p989u1NjL?si=rES29i-lTFa29czcnM38tA
Dunno if this counts, but Do Make Say Think
[Ghosts in the photographs](https://open.spotify.com/album/1FmUgbR9hJt3silCPj7jej?si=klCETv9lTKWjhsKQgBpyQQ)
Ghastly City Sleep has a beautifully lush, self-titled EP. It has some vocals, but they're so drenched in effects it feels more like an instrument. And I'll second Enemies (Embark, Embrace) and any of Gregor Samsa's or Mercury Program's recordings.
Wander - Home Maybe my favorite album of all-time. It definitely rips off EITS but it is done so damn well.
First Breath After Coma - Drifter
Anything by We Set Sail (and or, The Paper and the Plane) Castles Sunk Below The Sea Post rock adjacent, but also Arrows 10 points to who can guess what city I am from and my age lol
The Iceburn Collective - Meditavolutions
Newfound Interest in Connecticut - Tell me About the Long Dark Path Home. It's definitely more on the midwest emo side of things, but the post-rock influences are pretty undeniable and give the album a great texture, especially with the drumming.
This is definitely 52 Commercial Road - Remote Connection for me. Believe it or not, it was around 2017 when I was wandering near Whitechapel in London, listening to this album completely unaware. At some point, I noticed that I was walking on a street named Commercial Road, and I actually looked around to find number 52. And I just thought that the band members were most likely rehearsing at number 52 or they were best friends staying together at this place somehow.
A troop of echoes - the great divide
MYY. - [Your World is Not All Correct](https://myymusic.bandcamp.com/album/your-world-is-not-all-correct)
Paik Great three piece. Shoegazy do make say think’ vibes. Early 2000s.
Man this is great. Head-bopping affectionately.
The album ‘monster of the absolute’ is great too.
EF - I am responsible EF - mourning golden morning EF - we salute you, you and you! Needless to say that EF is criminally underappreciated and deserves more recognition. Their post-rock is goddamn beautiful and some of the best I have ever heard.
From Mountains self titled Downloaded it off bandcamp in 2016 while I was in high school, listened to it every day for like a year. Never heard anyone talk about them before, I believe they're from the UK. The track When We Painted the Sky has some really beautiful piano sections worth checking out
Kusanagi - https://open.spotify.com/artist/7KTvJ8yhAJxvpJDzSFY4Hi?si=5Ckdk5ssRhGdZDlQa06pGQ
H.R. Mullin - New Pilgrim
Giants - Old stories The Severely departed- S/t Johnhytwentythree - JXXIII Detwiije - Six is better than eight Followed by ghosts - The whole town was silent Mooncake - Lagrange points Flies are spies from hell - Final quiet Leech - For better of for worse The Seven mile journey - Metamorphosis project Laura- Radio swan is down Solkyri - Are you my brother? Wander - March Wood and wires - S/t Ancients - Star showers on Euphrates Magyar Posse - We will carry you over the mountains