Math rock usaully denotes very complex and sometimes long songs which are
extremely dynamic. I don't know much about music theory, but a friend who
does was telling me the changes in an Ativin song and within the span of
about a minute it went from 4/4 to 11/7 to 5/4 to 7/8. (Those numbers may
be wrong, but you get the picture). Usaully all instrumental as well, and
very atmospheric and moody as well.
THE math rock band is Don Caballero. I've mentioned this before, but I can
definitely see "What Burns Never Returns" being very easy to digest by most
list members. Incredibly intricate and fast drum programming, I mean
drumming and crazy sounds from a guitar and bass. (One of the song titles
is "Delivering the Groceries at 120 Beats Per Minute").
Others, which are math rocky include: Ativin, June of '44, Storm & Stress
(more on a free jazz vein), A Minor Forest, and Purkinje Shift.
At 11:54 AM 6/4/99 -0500, bacchanal wrote:
quoted 5 lines Somebody said this as part of a description of tortoise:
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>Somebody said this as part of a description of tortoise:
>>"math rock"
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>Hm. Math rock: that sounds simultaneously intriguing and suspicious, like
Nickelodeon Gak.
quoted 2 lines If anybody can rattle off some other bands to look for that could be
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>If anybody can rattle off some other bands to look for that could be
considered "math rock" I'd be grateful.
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