Starlight Society - Global Music Discovery

This week, we deep dive into the world of post-rock, full of gorgeous instrumentals and soundscapes that build worlds out of songs without words. This is one of my favorite subgenres of music - I have an entire playlist full of this stuff for when I'm writing that I just set on shuffle, and it drifts me through all sorts of moods and mindscapes. A guy I bumped into at the Motion City Soundtrack show said I should do a scene show on post-rock, so here we are.

If you aren't familiar with post-rock, it's rock without lyrics. I think you'll dig it. I know that I have for almost 20 years now. There isn't a ton about the history or development of the genre, simply because it isn't a centralized movement with a discernible story arc, but there is such a plethora of amazing bands doing this stuff, I didn't repeat anyone in the show, just to give you as many different sounds as possible, and I still had post rock bands I left out.

You can keep digging if you want more, I'm sure, but now you know where to start...

The usual set of links for the show:

• The webpage - http://www.starlightsociety.com
• The donate page - http://www.patreon.com/StarlightSociety
• Me on Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/Devinoch
• Your random science joke of the day - https://xkcd.com/1680/

And here's what I played...

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Setlist:

• "Always Crashing In The Same Car" - David Bowie
• "Carol" - Slint
• "Chief Sitting Duck" - Don Caballero
• "1000 Miles" - Dirty Three
• "A Simple Way To Go Faster Than Light That Does Not Work" - Tortoise
• "Shifty Drifty" - Tristeza
• "Amber, Ember, Glow" - Saxon Shore
• "Soul City" - Bowery Electric
• "Loft" - Caspian
• "Bellevue Bridge" - Cul De Sac
• "California Is Too Long" - Signal Hill
• "Untitled 1" - Sigur Rós
• "The Sun Smells Too Loud" - Mogwai
• "So Long, Lonesome" - Explosions In The Sky
• "Threads" - This Will Destroy You
• "Knock At My Door" - The Six Parts Seven
• "6pm" - This Is Your Captain Speaking
• "The Air Between Us" - Hammock
• "In Mind" - Do Make Say Think
• "Arrived/Departed" - The Mercury Program
• "Radio Protector" - 65daysofstatic
• "The Colorfreak" - Kiln
• "Call" - The American Dollar
• "Forever Lost" - God Is An Astronaut
• "A Little Bit Of Solidarity Goes A Long Way" - And So I Watch You From Afar
• "Circa" - Beware Of Safety
• "Leyendecker" - Battles
• "Weightless Frame" - Gifts From Enola
• "Malko" - Russian Circles
• "Pyramid Of The Sun" - Maserati
• "In Every Mind" - Red Sparowes
• "The Writer's Audience Is Always Fiction" - You May Die in the Desert
• "After Image" - Toe
• "A Heart Has Asked For The Pleasure" - Mono
• "No Name" - The Samuel Jackson Five
• "Seraphim & Cherubim" - Maybeshewill