Great Instrumental bands

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

I'm a huge fan of Godspeed! You Black Emperor. I"ve seen them live once and their show was totally hipnotic.

Tortoise is another of my personal favorites
Mogwai - Come On Die Young is their best record.
Do Make Say Think - Not a great band but very interesting.
Pink Floyd - earlier days

legonads · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:36 pm

Acid Mothers Temple

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:36 pm

The Meters

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

Yail Bloor Wrote:

The Meters

The Meters!

Very very nice

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:38 pm

If you like GY!BE, check out Explosions in the Sky. They kick major ass, and as Haq said, it's similar, but you don't get all that pseudo commie crap with it.

duckyboy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:38 pm

Dirty Three...Ocean Songs and Horse Stories are good

nick · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:47 pm

don caballero: 'for respect' and '2' - didnt care much for their output after that

naked city [well, if eye making gurgling sounds into the mic doesnt count as a 'vocal', per se]

hmm, let's see...

explosions are ok, i think they're kind of godspeed-lite

then there's storm and stress, ian william's post don cab project

any of ken vandermark's projects...especially spaceways inc 'version soul'. totally worth owning just for the groove in 'size larger'.

rachels, dirty 3, some of the syr releases are pretty stellar

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

tristeza (well, not this latest incarnation)
the album leaf (another james lavalle creation)
japancakes (though, i haven't heard everything of theirs, but i think it's all instrumental)

Yail Bloor · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 10:50 pm

Z Wrote:

japancakes (though, i haven't heard everything of theirs, but i think it's all instrumental)

yep, it is. John Neff! should be the new Mike Jones!

Z · **Joined:** Sat Oct 23, 2004 1:38 pm **Posts:** 7979

nobodyfuckswiththejesus Wrote:

explosions are ok, i think they're kind of godspeed-lite

are you saying that's a bad thing?

i like that they keep most of their songs under 10 minutes. and i've never seen them, but everyone raves about their shows.

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

Sen. L'il Jon(g) LooGAR Wrote:

If you like GY!BE, check out Explosions in the Sky. They kick major ass, and as Haq said, it's similar, but you don't get all that pseudo commie crap with it.

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I forgot all about them.
Yes...I like them as well.
Sound very similar to GYBE, but short and tight songs.

Postmersh · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:02 pm

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Z Wrote:

japancakes (though, i haven't heard everything of theirs, but i think it's all instrumental)

yep, it is. John Neff! should be the new Mike Jones!

Too late - NAZR MOHAMMED! Has been the new Mike Jones for a while now...

Besides those mentioned, I also enjoy Rumah Sakit, Oma Yang, Boards of Canada, Tarantel, Rome, Fridge, (Early) Trans Am, Oxxxes, Upsilon Acrux, The Advantage, Halifax Pier, the list goes on and on...

Plus, Who could forget The F-Ing Champs...Premier InstrMetal rock trio (or quartet, from what I've been hearing)

tentoze · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:11 pm

Excluding their 1st 3 albums, which had vocals, Jade Warrior. Period.

Billzebub · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 10:26 pm **Posts:** 6459

Huevos Rancheros
Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet

Natural Mike · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:35 pm

5ive Style (old Chicago band featuring former Wilco-ite Leroy Bach)

splates · **Posted:** Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:57 pm

Sen. L'il Jon(g) LooGAR Wrote:

If you like GY!BE, check out Explosions in the Sky. They kick major ass, and as Haq said, it's similar, but you don't get all that pseudo commie crap with it.

yeah but i like that pseudo commie crap

other bands
lightning bolt
ratatat
a heap of surf-rock bands (shadowy men have already been posted)

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:37 am

Hellecasters!

I quote: Comprised of three fine Telecaster-wielding guitarists (former Fairport Convention member Jerry Donahue, Desert Rose Band founder John Jorgenson, and session musician Will Ray), the Hellecasters won significant praise from guitar fanatics for the blistering roots and country-rock of their 1993 debut, The Return of the Hellecasters. Escape From Hollywood followed in 1994, and in 1997 the Hellecasters returned with Hell 3: New Axes to Grind.

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el_scorcho · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:55 am

Lightning Bolt has vocals.

I would add Pelican to the list. Kind of along the lines of Explosions in the Sky or some of Godspeed's stuff, but more metal.

splates · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:02 am

el_scorcho Wrote:

Lightning Bolt has vocals.

im aware of this, but not alot and they're often distorted and shit, besides alot of the other bands have occasional vocals too.

Red Hood Suite · **Joined:** Mon Feb 07, 2005 10:47 pm **Posts:** 610

Christ..I forgot albout A Silver Mount Zion

Aural Fixation · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:51 am

No one's mentioned Isis.

Lambchop · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:25 pm

Postmersh Wrote:

Yail Bloor Wrote:

Z Wrote:

japancakes (though, i haven't heard everything of theirs, but i think it's all instrumental)

yep, it is. John Neff! should be the new Mike Jones!

Besides those mentioned, I also enjoy Rumah Sakit, Oma Yang, Boards of Canada, Tarantel, Rome, Fridge, (Early) Trans Am,

I have been thinking of checking out Trans Am for awhile now, any particular albums I should check out first?

jsh · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:45 pm

G_Peve76 Wrote:

Do Make Say Think - Not a great band but very interesting.

I'm confused. Why not a great band? They absolutely blew me away live, last time I saw them. Winter Hymn ... is incredible. If they're not yet great, they will be soon.

The only I can think to add right now is Jaga (Jazzist).

two guns holla · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 12:52 pm

Shalabi Effect
Stars of the Lid
Mono
Sonna
set fire to flames
From Monument to Masses.

"Instrumental" is a really broad category though. I mean there are tons of genre's that are instrumental - jazz, idm, ambient, post rock, math rock, etc.

Dick Meatwood · **Posted:** Wed Feb 16, 2005 1:19 pm

Glenn Branca is sort of the godfather of the guitar-driven post rock stuff. You should check out Ascension and Lesson No. 1 if you haven't already.

Jackie-O Motherfucker is 90% instrumental stuff. Check out the reissue of Magick Fire Music/ Wow put out by ATP a few years ago for a prime example of their stuff.

Black Dice is also mostly intrumental, or at least the vocals don't really coalesce into anything recognizable. I think the last Sightings album pretty much dropped the vocals, too, but this is getting more into noise-type stuff...

Not to try to get into jazz here, but Masada (John Zorn) is also worth checking out if you haven't.

Fred Frith who played with Zorn/ Naked City has also been part of some really nice, heady instrumental stuff. He was in Henry Cow which doesn't have vocals, I don't think, and their album Unrest is really cool, very avant-garde, free jazz-influenced prog. He has a solo album called Gravity that's really eclectic and nice. That's all I've really heard from him, but I've gathered from some reliable sources that he's done a lot of stuff that's worth looking into.

Good recs w/ Don Caballero and Explosions (great live show!).

Isis has vocals, too, but I like them. I don't care for Pelican too much, though.

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