post-rock

noun

1. a type of music that often varies from traditional rock in terms of form and instrumentation

adjective

1. of or relating to this type of music

Example Sentences

His two originals, “Cleopatra” and especially “Lucy & Dixie,” have the all-caps emotionalism of the local post-rock veterans Explosions in the Sky.

From New York Times

The quartet, which bills their music as “shoegazing with various genres such as post-rock, post-punk, and dreampop,” has been picking up steam since 2018.

From Los Angeles Times

Riley’s work hearkens to Krautrock and what would be coming in post-rock.

From New York Times

The duo from North Carolina that records as Magic Tuber Stringband connects Appalachian tradition to Minimalism, meditation and perhaps post-rock, carrying forward the ideas of musicians like John Fahey and Sandy Bull.

From New York Times

A sense of weightlessness pervades the album’s 11 atmospheric cuts, festooned with galactic synths and post-rock guitars.

From Seattle Times