Kells77 Math Rock

I have less awareness of where math rock is or isnā€™t today, but remember when it first appeared and what it refers to - generally intricate, technical, rhythmic-focused, largely instrumental rock music. Itā€™s a bit less of a coherent ā€œsceneā€ than witch house was, and is/was more generally attached to a fairly broad range of bands albeit with some particular sound characteristics. I can kind of understand why the intricate, instrumental nature of it gained it the ā€œmathā€ tag.

The band Battles were one of the first to have the tag attached to them (see below). This album came out on Warp actually.

The band ā€˜Foalsā€™ were also described as math rock pretty often in their early years. The similarity in sound to Battles is fairly apparent.

    Kells77 Witch House

    when i submit tracks for playlists and whatever, there is no option for dub techno. ever. yet somehow witch house is always there. i must be old, itā€™s just ridiculous.

        hugopal Yeah, that makes sense! And witch house DOES sound cooler than witch electronica lol

          303abuser I think itā€™s a sign that you need to have more witch house in your bag/hard drive šŸ˜‚

              Kells77 i chose to shake my fist and yell at the neighbourhood kids to stay off my lawn instead.

                  Linear skynard and pink Floydā€™s seminal The Long Division Bell are classics of the math rock genre in our houseā€¦

                    -si- In my house, Toolā€™s Aenima counts as Math Rock, because thereā€™s a song title with a math problem in it on that album (46 & 2) šŸ˜‚

                    • -si- replied to this.

                        303abuser Donā€™t forget a menacing stare! Thatā€™s what seals the deal šŸ˜‚

                          Kells77

                          Itā€™s all open to interpretation, Kells.

                          Math rock is a state of mind, not just something thatā€™s easily pigeon holed by supposed classics of the genre.

                              -si- Yeah I was kiddingā€¦I still donā€™t really know what math rock means, but I appreciate the examples people have given. I never really thought of Foals as anything but indie rock, but as you said, itā€™s all interpretation šŸ™‚

                                  ā€œShoegazeā€ is probably the best genre name. When a music style becomes more about the fanatics who listen to it rather than the sonics, Iā€™m all in.

                                  Psytrance has many sub genres. I would of thought one was to many but hereā€™s a few my friends often name. Dark-Psy , Forrest, High -Tech. It all sounds the same to me. But you could argue itā€™s the same for all house music if youā€™re not into it.

                                  I might become Dark-Psy this week. Sounds like I could end up in a new Marvel film, battling Grotbags to the death, to save millsy from having to post in the football thread at least once a day, sounding like a stand in home economics teacher when his football knowledge is laid bare.

                                  Dark-Si-Trance..Like it.