Reynolds tells me that post-rock was coined to describe the “open-ended space of possibility”, where artists were spilling beyond the boundaries of rock in many different directions. There was an excitement around this 90s post-rock because it did not erect barricades around how instruments should be utilised. There were no checkboxes for post-rock to tick. When Reynolds referred to using guitar, bass and drums for “non-rock purposes”, he wasn’t being deliberately vague. Post-rock defined itself by what it wasn’t, and there were no other restrictions over what it could be. Was it possible to
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