Math rock is a rhythmically complex guitar-based style of experimental rock that emerged in the 1980s and that was very influenced by Progressive Rock like King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Henry Cow - and 20th century composers such as Steve Reich and John Cage. 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.
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.
List of Math Rock Bands:
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A
- A Minor Forest
- Acidman
- Adebisi Shank
- Ahleuchatistas
- American Football
- And So I Watch You From Afar
- August Moon
- Autoclave
- Autolux
B
C
- The Cancer Conspiracy
- Canvas Solaris
- Chavez
- Cheer-Accident
- Circus Lupus
- Collections of Colonies of Bees
- Colossamite
- Crain
- Craw
D
E
- Ebu Gogo
- The Edmund Fitzgerald
- El Ten Eleven
- El Grupo Nuevo de Omar Rodriguez Lopez
- Electro Quarterstaff
- Everyoned
- Extol
- Extra Life
- Everything Everything
F
- Facing New York
- The Fall of Troy
- Fang Island
- Faraquet
- Fear Before
- Fiasco
- Foals
- ¡Forward, Russia!
- The Fucking Champs
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
- Maserati
- Make Believe
- Maps & Atlases
- The Mars Volta
- Maybeshewill
- The Mercury Program
- Minus the Bear
- Moneen
- My Disco
- Meet Me In St Louis
N
O
P
- Pattern Is Movement
- Paul Newman
- Pele
- Piglet
- Pivot
- Polvo
- the pAper chAse
- Public Relations Exercise
- Protest the Hero
Q
R
- The Redneck Manifesto
- Rhythm of Black Lines
- Roadside Monument
- Rodan
- Rumah Sakit
- Rolo Tomassi
- Roo
- Russian Circles
S
- Shake Ray Turbine
- Sharks Keep Moving
- Shellac
- Shiner
- Shipping News
- Shorty
- Sleepytime Gorilla Museum
- Sleeping People
- Slint
- So Many Dynamos
- Speaking Canaries
- Sweep the Leg Johnny
T
- Tabula Rasa
- Tera Melos
- These Arms Are Snakes
- Thingy
- This Town Needs Guns
- Time of Orchids
- Toe
- Tubelord
- Turing Machine
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