Editing Post-rock (section)

===1990s: first wave===
[[File:Stereolab (1994).jpg|alt=|thumb|First wave post-rock group [[Stereolab]] performing at a 1994 concert]]
The term post-rock was first used to describe the texturally oriented, eclectic and [[electronica]]-tinged rock-adjacent [[Independent music|indie music]] of English bands such as [[Stereolab]],<ref name="Epitonic">{{cite web|url=http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Fstereolab.html|title=Stereolab biography|access-date=29 March 2007|publisher=Epitonic|date=27 August 2001|first=Jesse|last=Ashlock|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185017/http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Fstereolab.html|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Moonshake]],<ref name="Dusted Reviews">{{cite web|url=http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1232|title=Dusted Reviews review of Minamo — Beautiful|access-date=29 March 2007|date=26 January 2004|publisher=Dusted Magazine|first=Charlie|last=Wilmoth|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091111155056/http://www.dustedmagazine.com/reviews/1232|archive-date=11 November 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Laika (band)|Laika]],<ref name="VH1">{{cite web|url=http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1124379/20000924/laika.jhtml|access-date=8 July 2008|date=24 September 2000|publisher=[[VH1|VH1.com]]|title=Laika Kick Off U.S. Tour In Seattle|first=Doug|last=Levy|archive-date=29 June 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629202158/http://www.vh1.com/artists/news/1124379/20000924/laika.jhtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Disco Inferno (band)|Disco Inferno]],<ref name="Epitonic_DI">{{cite web|url=http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Fdiscoinferno.html|title=Disco Inferno biography|access-date=29 March 2007|date=10 August 2001|publisher=Epitonic|first=Jeanne|last=Acceturo|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927185157/http://www.epitonic.com/index.jsp?refer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.epitonic.com%2Fartists%2Fdiscoinferno.html|archive-date=27 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Seefeel]],<ref name="Pitchfork">{{cite web|url=http://samizdat.cc/shelf/documents/2005/07.11-lostGeneration/lostGeneration.pdf|title=The Lost Generation|access-date=28 September 2017|date=11 July 2005|first=Nitsuh|last=Abebe|publisher=[[Pitchfork Media]]|archive-date=15 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170815024321/http://samizdat.cc/shelf/documents/2005/07.11-lostGeneration/lostGeneration.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Bark Psychosis]], [[Pram (band)|Pram]] and [[Insides (band)|Insides]],<ref name="The Wire May 1994" /> many of which began in [[post-punk]] and [[shoegaze]] roots; these were largely deemed post-rock as such in Reynolds' music journalism.<ref name="The Wire May 1994"/> Bands from the early 1990s such as [[Slint]] (with ''[[Spiderland]]'') or, earlier, [[Talk Talk]] (with ''[[Laughing Stock]]''), were recognized as influential on post-rock by later music critics.<ref name="Pitchfork"/> Despite marked differences between the two bands, with Talk Talk emerging from [[art rock]] and [[New wave music|new wave]] and Slint emerging from [[post-hardcore]], they both have had a driving influence on the way post-rock progressed throughout the 1990s into the 2000s.<ref name="Pitchfork" /><ref name="allmusic"/>

Groups in [[Chicago]] such as [[Cul de Sac (group)|Cul de Sac]] as well as more ambient-oriented bands from the [[Kranky (record label)|Kranky]] label like [[Labradford]], [[Bowery Electric]], and [[Stars of the Lid]], are often cited as foundational to the American first wave of post-rock.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Reynolds|first = Simon|title=Back to the Future|journal=The Wire|volume=141|pages=26–30|date=November 1995}}</ref> The second Tortoise album ''Millions Now Living Will Never Die'' made the band a post-rock icon according to music critics,<ref name="Pitchfork"/><ref name="Splendid">{{cite web|url=http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1081734856339505|title=Tortoise — It's All Around You|first=Phillip|last=Buchan|publisher=Splendid Magazine|date=13 April 2004|access-date=29 March 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020107/http://www.splendidezine.com/review.html?reviewid=1081734856339505|archive-date=30 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> with bands such as [[Do Make Say Think]] beginning to record music inspired by the Chicago school.<ref name="Textura">{{cite web|url=http://www.textura.org/archives/d/domakeandyetreview.htm|title=Do Make Say Think — And Yet review|publisher=Textura|date=February 2003|access-date=28 September 2017|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303165344/http://www.textura.org/archives/d/domakeandyetreview.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[John McEntire]] of Tortoise and [[Jim O'Rourke (musician)|Jim O'Rourke]] of [[Gastr Del Sol]] were prominent in the movement, with them both also producing multiple albums by Stereolab in the 1990s and 2000s.<ref>P. Buckley, ''The Rough Guide to Rock'', (Rough Guides, 1999), {{ISBN|1858284570}}, P. 913</ref>

In 2000, [[Radiohead]] released the studio album ''[[Kid A]]'', marking a significant turning point in their musical style. Reynolds described it and the 2001 follow-up album ''[[Amnesiac (album)|Amnesiac]]'' as major examples of post-rock in the style that had been established by the first wave, incorporating influences from krautrock, space rock, jazz and electronica into the band's indie rock music; he noted that the success of the albums showed that the style had made a mainstream breakthrough.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.spin.com/2015/10/radiohead-kid-a-review-spin-magazine-simon-reynolds-2000 |title=Classic Reviews: Radiohead, 'Kid A' |author=Simon Reynolds |work=Spin |date=2 October 2015 |access-date=21 January 2017 |archive-date=19 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170119081816/http://www.spin.com/2015/10/radiohead-kid-a-review-spin-magazine-simon-reynolds-2000/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="SPIN">{{cite web| last = Reynolds| first = Simon| title = Radio Chaos| work = Spin| date = October 2000| url = http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=88| access-date = 23 April 2007| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070927211400/http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=88| archive-date = 27 September 2007}}</ref>

Another eminent post-rock locale was Montreal, where [[Godspeed You! Black Emperor]] and related groups, including [[Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band|Silver Mt. Zion]] and [[Fly Pan Am]], released music on [[Constellation Records (Canada)|Constellation Records]];<ref>{{cite news|url=http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2002/11/19/AE/Post-Rock.A.Movement.Of.The.90s.Still.Kickin-326959.shtml|title=Post-rock: a movement of the 90s still kickin'|date=19 November 2002|work=McGill Tribune|access-date=29 March 2007|first=Ian|last=Weinberger|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928020937/http://media.www.mcgilltribune.com/media/storage/paper234/news/2002/11/19/AE/Post-Rock.A.Movement.Of.The.90s.Still.Kickin-326959.shtml|archive-date=28 September 2007|url-status=dead}}</ref> these groups are generally characterized by a melancholy and [[Dynamics (music)#Changes|crescendo]]-driven style rooted in, among other genres, [[chamber music]], ''[[musique concrète]]'' techniques and [[free jazz]] influences.<ref name="Aural Innovations"/>