The Load In August may have been a relatively quiet month in terms of the volume of events I attended, but there can be no doubt that the quality has been exceptionally high. Having already spoken at length about Radar festival in my last column, I only have three more…
Earlier this I discovered an exciting new face to Toronto’s prog music scene, Parliament Owls, who I connected with after seeing live and happily premiered their debut single back in May. Today they are back with their 3rd and final single “Matterhorn” and a brand new music video before the…
By now, you’ve probably seen us rant and rave about the new wave of “post-math rock”; more specifically, the trend of bands blending the traditional bouncy melodies of math rock with post-rock structures, jazz-influenced technicality, and generally progressive and experimental ideas. As I’ve outlined before, Art As Catharsis and Small…
I don’t need to remind you that 2019 has already been an exceedingly impressive year for instrumental post-rock and math rock. We’re not even fully midway, and I can easily identify a solid dozen or so albums that will be in heavy contention for my personal top 50 of the…
Covering music for the blog provides both an avenue for curation as well as a means of tracking stylistic movements in various scenes. We’ve used our platform to chronicle the evolution of dissonant death metal, the new wave of traditional heavy metal, progressive stoner/sludge/doom, and a myriad of other subgenres…
Photo by Mette Tegtmeier Olsen I know what you’re thinking and yes, this is yet another post about Town Portal. When will it stop? Probably never; we’ve been waiting for music for so long from these guys that we are still all giddy from receiving the excellent Of Violence. Out…
With us now officially being into May, we’ve fully rounded the corner of the first quarter of 2019 into the meat of Q2, which – as Eden attested to in our most recent Editors’ Picks column – is when we really start to see the cream of the crop come…
Editor’s Note: Welcome back! In case you missed the first part of this feature, we are taking a hard look at the surprisingly diverse and thriving post-rock/metal and math rock-influenced scenes throughout Latin America, with a particular focus on three countries. In part one we spoke to a group of…
One of my favorite things about curating compilation albums for A Thousand Arms has been the research process. Countless hours scouring Bandcamp pulling captivating needles out of mostly uninspiring haystacks could turn one cynical, but for me it has only affirmed what I had already suspected: post-rock is a genre…
When you look the past all the pontificating, the tens of thousands of words we’ve written about post-rock on the blog, beyond all the iterations and perspectives, the bottom line for many of us is that post-rock just moves us. Good post-rock, the kind which looks past more qualifications and…
