Quote Originally Posted by mad rhetorik
Why is it called "post-rock?" It sounds more like a sect of progressive rock to my ear, or experimental ambient (sort of like Eno records with conventional instruments replacing the synthesizers, if that makes any sense). Does anyone know what industry wag started the trend of calling it "post-rock?"
I also see it as an offshoot of progressive rock as well.

God forbid they would call it progressive, or no one would buy it and the reviewers would hate it. They call it "Post Rock" because it sounds cool.

Popular culture seem to be cycling into a phase of dense and complicated and art-y prog-type rock music now as a backlash to the simplistic rap and pop divas we've had to live with for the past 10 years. It's all a big slowly turning circle, isn't it?

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