math rock


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math rock

A style of rock music characterized by complex and technically-demanding instrumentation.
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Blazing a trail through the fervent math rock scene The Physics House Band admit they could mutate into a completely different animal at any time.
Despite having different musical influences as individuals ranging from indie, pop, new wave, math rock, emo, and metal, their common denominator is their love for rock music serving them an advantage to mix and match their own tunes which amazingly blends well on and off the stage.
So I had a metal phase, I had a math rock phase, and some post-rock, too.
A Our music is a fusion of math rock, indie and punk.
They make deranged country math rock of the Good Will Hunting variety, played loud by necessity.
Their music is regularly described in reviews as math rock though Higgs reckons that his band don't really fall into the genre.
The algorithm has since been used to create tracks in the styles of extreme metal and rhythm-defying math rock, all released on the website Dadabots--described as a "platform for artificial artists." Though still in its infancy, the technology offers the promise of a future where music-listening apps go beyond curating play-lists of human artists to churning out individually tailored, genre-specific compositions to suit any mood or occasion.
It comes with a great variety of genres from electro pop to folk to blues to math rock.
I/O is instrumental post rock with moments of cinematic ambience and math rock influence.
Citadel Arts Centre, The Citadel, St Helens, 01744 735436, - Fri, Oct 9 Vasco Da Gama Liverpool's math rock upstarts, Vasco Da Gama, launch their debut EP (produced by Hot Club de Paris's Paul Rafferty) at Static Gallery with an unmissable line-up and some epic partying Static Gallery, 23, Roscoe Lane, Liverpool, 0151 707 0770, - Thu, Oct 1 Songs from Distant Lands Richard Strauss claimed that he could depict even a knife and fork in music.
The band's music combines the technical elements of modern math rock, vast soundscapes of ambient and shoegaze music and dark baritone vocals of 80s indie and goth.
The London trio - singer/guitarist Andrew Groves, drummer Daryl Atkins and bass player Adam Burton - cite influences ranging from Pink Floyd to Nine Inch Nails, King Crimson to Red Hot Chili Peppers, Groves explaining: "We always wanted to be a band that does it all, "We played jazz, funk and blues growing up, then we got into prog and metal and math rock and pop music and electronica ...