Editing Post-rock (section)

===Forerunners===
[[The Velvet Underground]] and their "[[Drone music|dronology]]" were referred to by Reynolds as having significantly influenced much "of today's post rock activity" in the first wave, especially with regards to the 1990s [[Space rock#1990s revival|space rock revival]].<ref name="Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music">{{cite book |last=Reynolds |first=Simon |title=Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music |publisher=Continuum International |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-8264-1615-5 |editor=Cox, Cristoph and Daniel Warner |page=359 |quote=Post-rock has its own sporadic but extensive history, which [post-rockers] draw on as much for the suggestiveness of its unrealized possibilities as for actual achievements. In terms of electric guitar, the key lineage runs from the Velvet Underground, through Germany's kosmic rock (Can, Faust, Neu!, Cluster, et al.) and the guitar-loop mosaics of Eno and Fripp, to late-1980s neopsychedelics as Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, and A.R. Kane. The Velvets melded folkadelic songcraft with a wall-of-noise aesthetic that was half Phil Spector, half La Monte Young—and thereby invented dronology, a term that loosely describes 50 per cent of today's post-rock activity.}}</ref> In addition, the 1970s [[krautrock]] bands [[Can (band)|Can]], [[Neu!]], [[Faust (band)|Faust]] and [[Cluster (band)|Cluster]] equally influenced post-rock acts including [[Stereolab]]<ref name="Klein (2001)">{{cite news |last=Klein, Joshua |date=29 August 2001 |title=What the Bleep? Stereolab Does Some Actual Tunes |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/08/29/what-the-bleep-stereolab-does-some-actual-tunes/f5ecba58-415b-4394-aac6-9ebf56f59e6e/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112114142/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/08/29/what-the-bleep-stereolab-does-some-actual-tunes/f5ecba58-415b-4394-aac6-9ebf56f59e6e/ |archive-date=12 January 2021 |access-date=10 October 2019 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> and [[Mogwai]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-08-14 |title=A Brief History of Post-Rock |url=https://thethinair.net/2014/08/a-brief-history-of-post-rock/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=The Thin Air |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-06-08 |title=NEU! 50th Anniversary Tribute Album Features The National, Mogwai, Guerilla Toss |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2189209/neu-50th-anniversary-reissue-tribute-album/news/ |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}</ref>  

[[This Heat]], which formed in 1976, are regarded as having predated the genre with their significantly unconventional musical stylings and repetitive structures, while also being credited as an influence on bands in the first wave of post-rock.<ref name="m.pitchfork.com">{{cite web |author=Philip Sherburne |date=26 January 2016 |title=This Heat: This Heat/Health and Efficiency/Deceit Album Review |url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21407-this-heathealth-and-efficiencydeceit/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160126170918/http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/21407-this-heat-this-heathealth-and-efficiencydeceit/ |archive-date=26 January 2016 |access-date=28 September 2017 |website=Pitchfork}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |title=This Heat: the band who came in from the cold{{!}}Irish Times |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/this-heat-the-band-who-came-in-from-the-cold-1.3399065 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201203140043/https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/this-heat-the-band-who-came-in-from-the-cold-1.3399065 |archive-date=3 December 2020 |access-date=30 October 2019 |newspaper=[[The Irish Times]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=This Heat - This Heat - Songs, Reviews, Credits |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/this-heat-mw0000610992 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929045427/http://www.allmusic.com/album/this-heat-mw0000610992 |archive-date=29 September 2017 |access-date=28 September 2017 |website=AllMusic}}</ref>

''[[Stylus Magazine]]'' observed that [[David Bowie]]'s 1977 album ''[[Low (David Bowie album)|Low]]'', produced by [[Brian Eno]], would have been considered post-rock if released twenty years later.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-albums-on-which-the-sequencing-is-lost-on-cd.htm|title=Top Ten Albums on Which the Sequencing Is Lost on CD - Staff Top 10|magazine=Stylus Magazine|access-date=28 September 2017|archive-date=10 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510040927/http://stylusmagazine.com/articles/staff_top_10/top-ten-albums-on-which-the-sequencing-is-lost-on-cd.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Louder (website)|Louder]] also described the English [[post-punk]] band [[Wire (band)|Wire]] as "the genre's godfathers," highlighting their 1979 studio album ''[[154 (album)|154]]'' as an early precursor that signposted the beginning of post-rock.<ref>{{Cite web |last=updated |first=Jerry Ewinglast |date=2022-10-14 |title=10 post-rock albums you should definitely own |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/10-post-rock-albums-you-should-definitely-own |access-date=2024-12-06 |website=louder |language=en}}</ref>

British post-punk band [[Public Image Ltd]] have been seen as pivotal for post-rock, with the ''[[NME]]''<ref name="Plastic Box">{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/public-image-ltd/641|title=NME Reviews: Plastic Box|date=11 January 1999|access-date=8 July 2008|publisher=[[NME]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080610054006/http://www.nme.com/reviews/public-image-ltd/641|archive-date=10 June 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref> describing them as "arguably the first post-rock group". Their 1979 album ''[[Metal Box]]'' almost completely abandoned traditional rock structures in favor of dense, repetitive [[Dub music|dub]] and [[krautrock]] inspired soundscapes and [[John Lydon]]'s cryptic, stream-of-consciousness lyrics. The year before ''Metal Box'' was released, PiL bassist [[Jah Wobble]] declared that "rock is obsolete".<ref name="Frieze">{{cite journal|url=https://frieze.com/article/heavy-metal|title=Heavy Metal|publisher=Frieze Magazine|first=Simon|last=Reynolds|journal=Frieze|date=1 November 2007|issue=111|access-date=28 September 2017|archive-date=29 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170929044636/https://frieze.com/article/heavy-metal|url-status=live}}</ref>