Math Rock!

[Dapper Bandit]

You'll know it's true math rock when you can't hum along to it.

[Dowi]

You'll know it's true math rock when you can't hum along to it.

Every math rock fan:

[dozicusmaximus]

^ haha

I hadn't listened to this one in a few years (listening to it now). But it's really good. The sax is so raunchy.
Zu
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkWfPRlcCI[/youtube]

I generally prefer the heavy side of every sub genre. So stuff like Botch, Drive Like Jehu, Dazzling Killmen are more my style. They probably aren't pure math but that's where my general taste lies in the sub genre... if it qualifies.

[voerking]

Dazzling Killmen

my favorite band, ever! i was lucky enough to see them quite a few times & played in a band with the bass player for years.

[Dowi]

^ haha

I hadn't listened to this one in a few years (listening to it now). But it's really good. The sax is so raunchy.
Zu
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOkWfPRlcCI[/youtube]

I generally prefer the heavy side of every sub genre. So stuff like Botch, Drive Like Jehu, Dazzling Killmen are more my style. They probably aren't pure math but that's where my general taste lies in the sub genre... if it qualifies.

ZU are one of my favorite bands EVER. Like, top 5. They're the reason I started playing and got into that kind of music. They're one of the best live bands I ever seen, and I strongly recommend to everybody to go if you have the chance, moreover now that the old drummer Jacopo is back.

All of this to say: even if they have some solutions that may sound like "math", I definitely would not put them in this category because they're soooo much more than this

[Inconuucl]

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.

The term mathrock has always meant that one tappy offshoot of second wave emo to me, only later did I see it mingle with the prog crowd and become a wider term.

No matter, for the twinkle daddies of emo shall ride eternal

[dozicusmaximus]

my favorite band, ever! i was lucky enough to see them quite a few times & played in a band with the bass player for years.

Kick ass!

ZU are one of my favorite bands EVER. Like, top 5. They're the reason I started playing and got into that kind of music. They're one of the best live bands I ever seen, and I strongly recommend to everybody to go if you have the chance, moreover now that the old drummer Jacopo is back.

All of this to say: even if they have some solutions that may sound like "math", I definitely would not put them in this category because they're soooo much more than this

Nice!
Yeah, not sure how many pure math rock bands I actually like. Figured it would be worth sharing some outliers to spice up the thread a bit.

[Dowi]

The term mathrock has always meant that one tappy offshoot of second wave emo to me, only later did I see it mingle with the prog crowd and become a wider term.

No matter, for the twinkle daddies of emo shall ride eternal

Well, I guess I'm more into not-first wave-math for sure.

Nice!
Yeah, not sure how many pure math rock bands I actually like. Figured it would be worth sharing some outliers to spice up the thread a bit.

You did well! Let me throw in some more bands more usually math-related that I like:

And So I Watch You From Afar
(I'm not much into their stuff but I liked their first album a lot when it came out)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD8z4cTjTM[/youtube]

Alpha Male Tea Party
(like ASIWFA but heavier?)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iFt-LXjq8U[/youtube]

With mathy elements somehow:

Uzeda
(Shellac/Touch and Go style, noise but with odd time signatures here and there)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFz2SC7mGAA[/youtube]

[tremolo3]

These nerds took The Fall of Troy/JR Ewing to extreme levels. Good listen if you are into polyrhythm stuff and epileptic dancing moves.


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVWUzDdcgw[/youtube]

[Inconuucl]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxPx8GeczN0[/youtube]

This band kicked my butt and asked me for my lunch money and I love them for it.

[cherler]

Yeah that performance was awesome, I'm looking forward to catching them at fest!

[PanicProne]

Watched that Poolkids Audiotree sesh too and was really impressed. Sadly though, their record doesn't live up to that performance imo.

[Inconuucl]

Watched that Poolkids Audiotree sesh too and was really impressed. Sadly though, their record doesn't live up to that performance imo.

That's because the record was recorded as a duo with the drummer and singer. Bassist and the guitarist from You Blew It joined just after. If you listen to their hardcore ep Pool: The Kids Are Dead you'll hear a fuller sound.

[ibarakishi]

Its a sad world when three pages of posts have gone by and nobody throws any love out for Toe... 'the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety' changed a lot about how i thought about music in general...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VCCkymXplE[/youtube]

[PanicProne]

That's because the record was recorded as a duo with the drummer and singer. Bassist and the guitarist from You Blew It joined just after. If you listen to their hardcore ep Pool: The Kids Are Dead you'll hear a fuller sound.

Oh cool, I had no idea. I'll do that! That bassist is really cool btw.