Math Rock!

[Eivind August]

Hah, I remember that one. Pretty sure that's how I found Sajjanu, who are a truly amazing band.

[Dowi]

Hah, I remember that one. Pretty sure that's how I found Sajjanu, who are a truly amazing band.

They are! Speaking of Japanese stuff I still can't understand why Ruins aren't contemplated in this chart. Maybe they're not purely math, but the feel is the same of early Hella and similar.

[raj007]

I've got some stuff to listen to this weekend! Awesome. Thanks all.

[Dapper Bandit]

Ruins not being on that list is a glaring omission! Also, having Shellac on there but no Zeni Geva? Having a whole corner of Zach Hill but no mention of Tatsuya Yoshida at all? Pure duckery, if you ask me.

Will pop back and add videos when I'm on a desktop but my top recs would be:

Ruins (again)


Zeni Geva


Yona-Kit


Faraquet


self-evident



And finally, to my mind the proto-math rock band (and also one of the greatest bands in history); 1980's era King Crimson

[Dapper Bandit]

Hah, I remember that one. Pretty sure that's how I found Sajjanu, who are a truly amazing band.

Just checked out Sajjanu, having seen that list for the first time. They're sick! Looks like a Tzadik cover, which makes sense as they fit that label beautifully!

[PanicProne]

[Dapper Bandit]

This is a whole thing in math rock that I apparently missed. I'm pleased that I mostly missed out on this whole raft of "let's generate our time signatures with D20's and then tap some sick phrygians over it"...

[Dowi]

This is a whole thing in math rock that I apparently missed. I'm pleased that I mostly missed out on this whole raft of "let's generate our time signatures with D20's and then tap some sick phrygians over it"...

Yeah that's pretty much it.
A large part of "math" stuff this days is just emo with clean tapping. Honestly, that's something I couldn't care less. I'm more into the bands I wrote in the previous posts.

[qersty]

Hold Your Horse Is is the ONLY math rock album as far as I'm concerned! I second that the intersection between math rock and emo is annoying (I mean it can be done alrigh see: brave little abacus. Mostly though NOPE) but also this genre is still so vague I don't know what a "pure" math rock sound would be. I love Shellac and dig Slint and such but it is not what I think when I hear "math rock", that's just noise rock that happens to be in odd time sigs to me.

[qersty]

does this math rock? I'll be here all week

[Pepe]

13:40 onwards does really sound a bit like Math Rock. But I fear it isn't. Sounds quite nice, though.

[Inconuucl]

does this math rock? I'll be here all week

This entire album is a blueprint for Cloudkicker post Becaons.

[lordgalvar]

I always get Less Than Jake mixed up with Jimmy Eat World. It bothers my wife because she doesn't know who I'm talking about. One of them sounds like Screeching Weasel ate Might Mighty Bosstones.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2eVZFy9yzk


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv8b6RPbnAc

We used to call Dillinger Escape Plan Math Rock. Probably wrong. It wasn't on that flow chart. Only the first album is good anyway. it took two years for a hair style to travel from LA to my home town two hours North.

I do like that first Foals album. Thanks Pepe!

[Pepe]

You're super welcome!

[Dowi]

We used to call Dillinger Escape Plan Math Rock. Probably wrong. It wasn't on that flow chart. Only the first album is good anyway. it took two years for a hair style to travel from LA to my home town two hours North.

I do like that first Foals album. Thanks Pepe!

Agreed on DEP, the first album was cool but then I lost interest (I was more a Botch fan, even if they're also not commonly recognized as math).

Anyway I think the definition is quite vague, potentially everything with odd time signatures or sudden tempo changes could fall in the category.