It’s so much more difficult to describe a music that ignores the concepts on which we found our reality and, by extension, the way we comprehend it and articulate it. More problematically still, post-rock is a reference to a temporary state. It denotes the point of abandoning rock, while still making reference to rock as the place of origin. I think of it as the little dash between the two words ‘post’ and ‘rock’, not quite one and yet not quite the other, abstract and levitating, hovering between rock and the beyond as both fastener and separator. Because of this, an artist could only be
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