CASPIAN - Post-Rock for people that don't like Post-Rock?

[YouAreHere]

I cant get enough of Caspian's new album "The Four Trees". What surprises me the most is a lot of people I play it for who cant stand meandering boring post-rock really seem to gravitate towards and enjoy it. As a huge post-rock instrumental etc. fan myself, I find its destined to be a classic in the genre, but to see it stretching beyond the bounds of conventional genre tastes is really refreshing and nice for a change, especially with this kind of music. Fucking great band and record.

[fightfightfight]

Album is epic.

[YouAreHere]

Really, really solid. But no post rock will ever top LYSF and F# A#.

That may be true (though personally I enjoy Yanqui U.X.O. more than F# A#).

I guess with this kind of Post-Rock (Caspian/Four Trees) though you have a new kind of approach in that it distills a ton of different influences together and makes them accesible to a wide audience without the record sounding cheesy, forced and desperate like most other bands in the genre. There is a certain skill and sense of tact behind this album that isnt there with your average EITS/Mogwai rip off.

As someone who has been into this kind of music for a long time I'm liking what this album is doing to me emotionally, and enjoying the fact that finally one of these bands has put together a full length album that isnt just a collection of big riffs and delay soaked guitar sounds. This thing really has a pulse to it. I am surprised this band isnt the biggest thing going in post-rock right now, especially with EITS putting out a dissapointing record, GY!BE being on hiatus, and Mogwai being mostly dormant and quiet in 2007.

[3mpire]

Yeah they're definitely a lot more accessible than a lot of the post-rock that is out there at the moment.

I've only got You Are The Conductor. Need to check out the new album.

[joss d.]

That may be true (though personally I enjoy Yanqui U.X.O. more than F# A#).

I guess with this kind of Post-Rock (Caspian/Four Trees) though you have a new kind of approach in that it distills a ton of different influences together and makes them accesible to a wide audience without the record sounding cheesy, forced and desperate like most other bands in the genre. There is a certain skill and sense of tact behind this album that isnt there with your average EITS/Mogwai rip off.

As someone who has been into this kind of music for a long time I'm liking what this album is doing to me emotionally, and enjoying the fact that finally one of these bands has put together a full length album that isnt just a collection of big riffs and delay soaked guitar sounds. This thing really has a pulse to it. I am surprised this band isnt the biggest thing going in post-rock right now, especially with EITS putting out a dissapointing record, GY!BE being on hiatus, and Mogwai being mostly dormant and quiet in 2007.

wow boy, i think you actually couldn't be more wrong.
the record is pretty solid don't get me wrong,
but there isn't a supreme amount of influences on the record.
and i feel the record gets quite repetitive after numerous listens,
almost allowing the songs to meld after the end.
they seem to use the shimmering guitars into intense riffage motif a little too much for my liking.
i mean it is a solid record but i just feel it isn't super groundbreaking.
and i feel that there are numerous post-rock bands on the cusp of becoming really great.
ie: yndi halda, destroyalldreamers, carta, giants etc...
as well as you have the heavy weights putting out record after record
ie: mono, grails, 65dos, etc...
there are numerous amazing post-rock releases this year, by new bands as well as older more defined bands, and all i am saying is caspian was not my favorite.

[Jess7286]

Nothing will top Slint's Spiderland, even though Godspeed is epic. Four Trees was pretty decent but I wouldn't say the best in the genre.

[TheBaroness]

This is one album I need to listen to more