About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Math rock albums, Math rock groups, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Youthmovies, Blakfish, Delicate AWOL, Hella, Don Caballero, Slint, Minus the Bear, Polvo, Oucho Sparks, Maps & Atlases, Sharks Keep Moving, Holy Fuck, Battles, Chavez, Fiasco, List of math rock groups, Haymarket Riot, Kimono, Ahleuchatistas, Rodan, Five Star Prison Cell, Palace of Buddies, We Be the Echo, Tear of a Doll, Shipping News, Faraquet, Knot Feeder, The Edmund Fitzgerald, Ghosts and Vodka, June of 44, 90 Day Men, Colossamite, 31Knots, Paradise, A Minor Forest, Turing Machine, Crain, One Step Shift, Made Flesh, The View from this Tower, Secular Works, Paul Newman, Yona-Kit, Piglet. Excerpt: Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s. It is characterized by complex, atypical rhythmic structures (including irregular stopping and starting), angular melodies, and dissonant chords. Math rock shares its place of origin in the late 80s underground music scene of the American Midwest. Some earlier bands have characteristics of both math rock and post-rock, using instruments for textures rather than melodies and riffs, featuring atypical rhythms and some dissonance. The genres soon diverged: math rock concentrated on angular melodies, atypical time signatures, start-stop rhythms, and dissonance, while staying closer to rock music in sound and instrumentation. Post-rock, on the other hand, concentrated on heavy use of dynamics, creating soundscapes, and expanded the variety of instruments used, used a jazzier drumming style, and incorporated elements of shoegaze music. Whereas most rock music uses a basic 4/4 meter (however accented or syncopated), math rock frequently uses asymmetrical time signatures such as 7/8, 11/8, or 13/8, or features constantly changing meters based on various groupings of ...
