ACL 2021 ~ Top Ten Rock and Post-Rock

Sorry, friends, no folk or jazz made our top ten this year ~ 2021 was the year of rock and post-rock!  With almost every major post-rock band releasing an EP or album in 2021, even some of the top performers

BRUIT ≤ ~ The Machine is burning and now everyone knows it could happen again

I can’t believe this is a debut album.  Toulouse post-rock quartet BRUIT ≤ (the symbol a sign of humility, meaning “less than”) certainly knows what it’s doing. Four extended stormers (one for each member), two explosive videos, a sense of largesse, and a

Glasir ~ New Dark Age

Dallas post-rock trio Glasir is over the moon that their album has been picked up for a vinyl pressing by Elusive Sound.  And not just any vinyl ~ amazing incandescent vinyl, as shown in the backlit photo to the left.  (There’s an

Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream ~ Requiem

Settle in, and get ready for the long haul.  Silent Whale Becomes A° Dream offers post-rock as post-rock should be: four songs over the course of an hour, including two eighteen-minute behemoths.  The album contains all the excitement one could