Rock: Post-Rock/Experimental

(See a text list of all Rock: Post-Rock/Experimental albums.)

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Editor's Picks (see more)

FOLLOWED BY GHOSTS: Dear Monsters, Be Patient
imagine biting into a truffle - you know its gonna be chocolate, but inside there is an explosion of searing punk-rock, gorgeous melodies, and elegant chord progressions. damn, thats a good truffle.
CD price: $12.97
MAGGOTAPPLEWONDERLAND: Shards of Subtle Being
The definitive audio companion for lost souls and troubled minds.
MP3 price: $5.99
AITCH: ¡Aitch Y Double Hockey Sticks!
Eclectic indie rock, beautiful, abrasive and layered for your listening pleasure.
CD price: $12.97
VIOLENT FEMMES: Freak Magnet
Widely considered the Femmes’ best album of the ’90s, and one of their best overall. Now, Shout. Factory is reissuing an even more improved version of Freak Magnet—including bonus tracks—finally giving it the widespread exposure it deserves.
CD price: $7.00
TREY GUNN: Music for Pictures
29 tracks from this King Crimson alumnus’ body of soundtrack work. Crystal-like pieces from the dramatically gritty, to the clangorous, to the somnambulistic, to the complete disassembling of sound, itself, into the shattered fissures of the final track.
CD price: $14.00
TIM COLLINS FEAT. CHARLIE HUNTER & SIMON LOTT: Fade
"Collins' music doesn't behave. In fact, it seems to make up it's own rules. Fade contains jazz, minimalism, funk, pop, and rock music. It shatters stereotypes of what the vibraphone can do." - blogcritics.org
CD price: $13.99
THE DOUBLE U: Hibou Mécanique
The latest CD of spooky, catchy rock songs made for coyotes and other nighttime souls. A "highly unpredictable brand of restrained indie rock full of the muted menace found in David Lynch films" (Portland Mercury).
CD price: $12.97 / MP3 price: $12.97
NAT BALDWIN: Most Valuable Player
Double-bass propelled experimental chamber folk.
CD price: $12.97
KACICA: Mosaic
Post-rock/experimental psychedelic progressive rock.
CD price: $13.97 / MP3 price: $10.97
JOE HEDGES: Curvature
An intensely creative debut. Dark and uplifting all at once, Curvature weaves cello, piano, synth, and the occasional crushing guitar around Hedges’ soulful voice for one of the most powerful, eclectic modern rock records of the year.
CD price: $9.97

New Arrivals (see more)

LEISUR HIVE: The Soft Column
Stirring, stately and throbbing with a warm grey heart, this new full length album brings to fruition the off-kilter sound of LH's live performances. "like a hybrid between Swans and Nick Cave"
CD price: $11.00 / MP3 price: $11.00
THE UNSTOPPABLE DEATH MACHINES: The Unstoppable Death Machines EP
The newest noisemakers and ground shakers in the burgeoning music world in Brooklyn, new York.
CD price: $5.00
DIMI DERO INC: Sisyphus Digipack Edition
The most australian french swamp rock band
CD price: $28.00
AUDIOTRANSPARENT: The Friday of our Lives
Blends indie songs with postrock atmospheres in a slow-paced fashion, although the songs are melancholy in tone, there is always an apparent light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
CD price: $7.99
AUDIOTRANSPARENT: Nevland
Blends indie songs with postrock atmospheres in a slow-paced fashion, although the songs are melancholy in tone, there is always an apparent light at the end of the proverbial tunnel.
CD price: $14.66
GAMENIGHT / MOUTH MOVEMENTS: Blue and Green
A split album by two of the most epic indie bands in Knoxville, TN.
CD price: $10.00
LAYMAR: In Strange Lines And Distances
Like Mogwai playing a set of instrumental Joy Division cover versions or the Cocteaus morphing into Eraserhead
CD price: $12.97
AS HUMAN: Kilo
Genre-bending compositions and improvisations combining hard driving beats, ambient textures, upright bass, and the soaring vocals of a sultry fire cracker.
CD price: $12.00 / MP3 price: $12.00
LOWNOTE: No Place For Romance
Piano, violin, bass, and drums let loose in a dark and dramatic fashion, uniquely blending classical aesthetics with the contemporary stylings of underground rock, punk and jazz.
CD price: $12.97
BLUE OF NOON: Atrophy
Mood-intensive and extremely dynamic, the music is cerebral while appealing to human nature's primal side; it can be reflective, soothing, and melodic while disturbing, inciting, and arousing.
CD price: $9.99

Top Sellers (see more)

IF THESE TREES COULD TALK: If These Trees Could Talk
A non-lyrical exploration of emotion.
CD price: $10.00 / MP3 price: $10.00
GRAND HALLWAY: Yes Is The Answer
Debut album from Seattle indie ensemble featuring members of Asahi and Voyager One. Spellbinding, cinematic piano-based art pop with layers of strings, woodwind, pedal steel, guitars, upright bass, and drums.
CD price: $10.99 / MP3 price: $10.99
EL TEN ELEVEN: El Ten Eleven
Music made by a bass player and a drummer with very surprising post rock results.
CD price: $12.00
GIFTS FROM ENOLA: Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind
Instrumental rock from Virginia. www.myspace.com/giftsfromenola
MP3 price: $5.00
2 FOOT YARD: Borrowed Arms
Shatters the boundaries between art song and pop song merged with the intimacy of chamber music.
CD price: $15.00
SLOW SIX: Private Times In Public Places
Electro-acoustic chamber music; could be ambient, could be post-rock
CD price: $12.97
TREY GUNN: Music for Pictures
29 tracks from this King Crimson alumnus’ body of soundtrack work. Crystal-like pieces from the dramatically gritty, to the clangorous, to the somnambulistic, to the complete disassembling of sound, itself, into the shattered fissures of the final track.
CD price: $14.00
A WHISPER IN THE NOISE: Dry Land
LIMITED-EDITION IMPORT FROM GERMANY
CD price: $13.99 / MP3 price: $9.97
MACHINE LOVE: Net Works
Chillout moods, sexy vibes, retro funk. Trip Hop meets Space Rock. Think Thievery Corporation meets Pink Floyd or Zero 7 meets Porcupine Tree. Also sounds like Massive Attack, The Flaming Lips, Beck & Rain Tree Crow
CD price: $12.99 / MP3 price: $12.99
BOY EATS DRUM MACHINE: Two Ghosts
Innovative post-rock with soulful vocals, yummy hooks, smashing beats, and scads of turntable fun.
CD price: $9.97 / MP3 price: $7.97