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hi guys

Okay, so I've been getting into math rock (just a few albums, really) and I really like it. The offbeat time signatures and the music that changes tempo instantly is a joy to listen to. But to be honest, I don't know where to go from here.

So, Metanet, do you have any recommendations with this genre?

My current listening set is on the following:
Ride the Fader - Chavez
A Forest of Polarity - Rooftops
Unutella - nuito
Standards - Tortoise
American Don - Don Caballero
Mirrored - Battles

Do you like Dillinger Escape Plan or Psyopus?

987654321 wrote:Do you like Dillinger Escape Plan or Psyopus?

Never heard of either.

The American Football LP is worth a listen.

edit: Ghosts and Vodka also

Battles ftw. Also, Auto!Automatic!! has some good songs.

Maps & Atlases, Hella.

Dammit, I was going to suggest Don Caballero and Tortoise, ut I see you already have them. Either way, I really liked Don Caballero's For Respect, and Beacons of Ancestorship by Tortoise is quickly becoming my new favourite album. If you were willing to expand your library without finding new artists, those two albums would be very much worth it.

I will second Dillinger Escape Plan.

Huh. I never knew tortoise was that math-rocky. I'll have to check out that album. Millions now living will never die is beautiful, though, if you're wanting to check out any more of them.

Woah woah. Slappy just agreed with me on something music related. O_O

Scrivener wrote:Battles ftw. Also, Auto!Automatic!! has some good songs.

Battles, yes.

Try some early Foals stuff too. And The Edmund Fitzgerald.

Drive Like Jehu - Yank Crime
Polvo - Today's Active Lifestyles
Polvo - In Prism
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Shellac - At Action Park
Shellac - Terraform
Slint - Spiderland
Unwound - Repetition
Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You

I'll second Yank Crime. It didn't really fit my tastes but it's a quality album.

Daughters - Daughters
Gospel - The Moon is a Dead World
U.S. Maple - Long Hair In Three Stages
Zu - Carboniferous

Faraquet - The View from This Tower (math rock)
Them Roaring Twenties - Future Sandwich EP (experimental math rock)
31Knots - Worried Well (math rock)
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is (math/noise)
Cinemechanica - The Martial Arts (math rock)
Ahleuchatistas - The Same and the Other (experimental math rock)
Experimental Dental School - Jane Doe Loves Me (experimental noise math)
Alarma Man - Alarma Man (experimental math rock)
The Dismemberment Plan - Emergency & I (indie math rock)
We Followed Tigers - And We Were Killed (math rock)
Sleeping People - Sleeping People (math rock)
LITE - Phantasia (math rock)
Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin with Milk Mouth (math rock)
Colour - Anthology (math rock)
Pattern is Movement - All Together (math pop/indie)
nuito - Unutella (spastic math rock)
rooftops - A Forest of Polarity (math rock)
Sorry No Ferrari - The Get Down Syndrome! (math rock)

Okay, err, wow. A huge response. Thanks a bunch guys. I'll get on listening to these. (I'll update the thread sporadically with my progress, I guess).