Perhaps the most prevalent influence across the entire history of post-rock (not just within the confines of Reynolds’ definition) was that of krautrock: a term used to describe a cluster of German groups that emerged in the late 1960s, driven to re-invent rock music in a bid to avoid both the tarred brush of German tradition and the emergent spectre of Anglo-American culture. Can centred on drummer Jaki Liebezeit, who pulled
