I remember when I heard this song and than whole album for the first time. It was really big thing for me.
In some poll made in Iceland few years ago debut “Ág?tis byrjun” (1999) have been chosen as the most important Icelandic album ever. Even before Bjork. There must be some thing in it, and there is.
Here is the place where post-rock was born. When musical critic Simon Reynolds was writing about Bark Psychosis first album “Hex”, he was amazed and being unable to clasify their music, he called it “post-rock”.
They were mixing rock, jazz, ambient and electronic sounds and in early ’90 that was realy new quality, and for me it still is. Below “Eyes & Similes” from historic “Hex”.
By the way – they started as a Napalm Death cover band :-)
One of the most interesting post-rock British bands. They are from Leeds so You shouldn’t be suprised that they aren’t to optimistic. Neverthless they are exceptionally good.
After Mogwai, another post-rock pearl – this time from the other side of the big water. But they are from Beverly, somewhere in Massachusetts. That explains a lot.
When I heard this track for the first time I was completely dumbfounded. From the shy and delicate begining to … the end it’s a masterpice.
Behind Yellow6 is Jon Attwood – British musician, who started in early ’80 in London punk groups. In ’90 he started to play alone in post-rock, ambient and drone stylistics.
On his website You can read paragraph which describes his tyle quite truly:
“Raised on punk, Jon Attwood has given up high-tempo, high energy three-chord anger and given himself over to a slow-motion, instrumental dreamland. Heavily reverbed, beautifully distorted guitars gracefully ascend, swoon and dip, freefall towards the earth, then catch themselves again, slowly tracing a complex and epic trail. The background is minimally constructed, often consisting of little more than some programmed beats and perhaps a bit of feedback. These all-instrumental compositions quietly arouse emptiness, void and the likeness of being.”
Beautyful minimalistic ambient ending with suprising post-rock guitar with drum. Delight:
I don’t like exaltation, but Disco Inferno is just awesome. They could be the younger, not so depressive, friends of Joy Division. Look for their “In Debt” album – it’s definitely worth of seeking.