mixtape | bleak house: a uk post rock primer (vol 2)

and without further ado, here's volume 2. this one picks up at 1994 and ends in 2007 with the slo-core bliss-out of epic45.

i should point out that these two mixes focus on the "experimental" side of post rock. a primer on the sturm und drang noisy side (mogwai etc.) is coming soon.

::: main - rail
::: pram - life in the clouds
::: hair & skin trading company - *
::: 'o'rang - little brother
::: navigator - driving bell
::: state river widening - unsung couples
::: third eye foundation - a galaxy of scars
::: fridge - five four child voice
::: rothko - april 18 / undone
::: hood - closure
::: epic45 - the stars in spring

fill your boots.

state river widening | unsung couples

a beautifully understated record that manages to conjure up the image of a broad, slow-moving river, maybe clark griswold's ole miss, oozing past green fields and tumbledown shacks. maybe.

7" released by gold hole in 1998.

wind em up.

various | will our children thank us

occasionally a compilation comes along that is nothing less than genre-defining. foundry's "will our children thank us" is one of those. but what genre exactly? i guess you'd have to call it british post-rock perhaps. or new neu maybe. or something else entirely. or better still nothing at all.

1. throwing a curve ball - appliance
2. glenda - billy mahonie
3. carnival of souls [ghost train dub] - pram
4. fonk - electric sound of joy
5. close frank falling - wisdom of harry
6. peggy's well - novak
7. biggest lie - piano magic
8. eeriel - isan
9. not growing out of, growing into - rothko
10. moriko mori shoots - state river widening

released in 1999.

i'll have what she's having.