Experimental/Avant-garde/Art Rock

**[SomeGuy]** · 02-21-2010 08:42 AM

Oh shit...This stuff is so good. I want you all to look at these bands.

Bands:
The Sound of Animals Fighting
Circa Survive
The Appleseed Cast
Battles
The Mercury Project
65DaysofStatic
The Mars Volta

If you have heard of them or regularly listen to them, pl0x contact me.

**Quigin** · 02-21-2010 10:58 AM

I love the Mars Volta but I havent heard of any of those other bands. Do you like Sonic Youth?

**[SomeGuy]** · 02-22-2010 06:19 AM

Sonic Youth is quite alright. I have only heard stuff off Daydream Nation however.

**no-Name** · 02-22-2010 06:24 AM

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Do you really have to call it experimental? 65DoS and Battles is more electronic than anything else.
Mars Volta is hardly experimental.
And calling anything art-rock just sounds like you're jerking off to it.

**[SomeGuy]** · 02-22-2010 06:25 AM

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**acatalephobic** · 02-22-2010 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by [SomeGuy]

Sonic Youth is quite alright. I have only heard stuff off Daydream Nation however.

"Quite alright"?
...Understatement of epic proportions, in my humble opinion.

I would highly recommend you delve deeper. There are so many options with them. Some of my personal favorites are:

+ Dirty
+ Washing Machine
+ Sister

Or if you prefer something more mellow, Rather Ripped is really good...even though people tend to give it some flack.

**SnakeCharmer** · 02-22-2010 10:10 PM

65DoS is one of my favorites
If you like them you might also like God is an Astronaut and Russian Circles

**no-Name** · 02-22-2010 10:35 PM

Originally Posted by SnakeCharmer

65DoS is one of my favorites
If you like them you might also like God is an Astronaut and Russian Circles

Those are great. Saxon Shore is good if you like Russian Circle, as well.

**Ardent Lost** · 02-22-2010 10:52 PM

Battles are great. The Mars Volta and 65daysofstatic I never got into. The Sound of Animals Fighting are ok. I still REALLY need to look into Sonic Youth.

Maybe take a look at:
Present (Belgium)
Circle (Finland)
Thinking Plague
Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya

**Spenner** · 02-23-2010 02:12 AM

65 DoS is brilliant-- more so with their One For All Time album. That's pretty much one of my favourite albums ever... as for the others, haven't heard a whole lot of them but Avant Garde is really cool.

**no-Name** · 02-23-2010 04:15 AM

Originally Posted by Spenner

65 DoS is brilliant-- more so with their One For All Time album. That's pretty much one of my favourite albums ever... as for the others, haven't heard a whole lot of them but Avant Garde is really cool.

All their albums are gorgeous, in their own way. Destruction of Small Ideas is the closest they get to a coherent thought process, but I adore their more electronically-centered stuff. Eastern European Dance Parties<3

**guitarboy** · 02-23-2010 05:07 AM

i jerk off to that shit.(daysofstatic)

**The Scrybe** · 02-23-2010 05:55 PM

Natural Snow Buildings, has anyone heard of them?

**[SomeGuy]** · 02-26-2010 07:55 AM

The Scrybe: Natural Snow Buildings? I have not, I will look into them.

n-N: As far as experimental goes, I'm talking in terms of composition style. Their use of time signatures is what I am mainly referring to as of now.

Ardent Lost: Try to get into TMV more lol, they're epic. And Battles are just simply win.

**no-Name** · 02-26-2010 07:59 AM

Originally Posted by [SomeGuy]

The Scrybe: Natural Snow Buildings? I have not, I will look into them.

n-N: As far as experimental goes, I'm talking in terms of composition style. Their use of time signatures is what I am mainly referring to as of now.

Ardent Lost: Try to get into TMV more lol, they're epic. And Battles are just simply win.

Music with flippy time signatures? Sounds like math-rock.

Try using less Internet memes to describe your music, please.

That is all.

edit; and for truely experimental shit, I made this thread

**[SomeGuy]** · 02-26-2010 08:02 AM

I wasn't discounting experimental instruments either...or any other type of avant-garde music for that matter.

Math rock tends to be death-massacre music