“Post-rock” Reviews

The latest installment in Ben Holton’s joint music and photography project might just be his best work yet.

An expansive and unpredictable post-rock album that renews my faith in the genre.

Daygraves expands his blackgaze sound with a battery of intriguing sounds and styles.

Kintsugi transform the grief over losing several beloved family members into lovely instrumental arrangements.

Sound in Silence’s 100th release is an excellent introduction to their curated ambient aesthetic.

Aarktica’s eleventh album is characterized by a peaceful, contemplative interplay between guitar, cello, and viola.

The Declining Winter’s latest album is their finest yet, a stark-yet-lush affair filled with haunting arrangements and lyrics.

These eight songs are effortlessly pretty, weaving delicate guitar melodies together with dreamy atmospherics.

LN’s first album in almost a decade uses haunting lyrics and arrangements to explore loss and sorrow.

On this rework of their 1994 debut, the Japanese band delivers a truly mercurial take on shoegaze rock.

The New York outfit’s music conjures up wide-open spaces and desert vistas perfect for a pandemic-inspired getaway.

The duo’s latest collection of nostalgia-soaked songs contains some of their most abstract and affecting music to date.

This is music for ambling through wide open spaces that aren’t encumbered by the detritus of urban sprawl.

Hanson’s dulcimer often takes the lead in these songs, but in ways that are consistently beguiling.

Johnathon Ford’s instrumental rock outfit enters its third decade with its heaviest and most assured album to date.

The band’s first release in a dozen years boasts a heavier, more expansive sound.

Some of the most challenging music of Low’s career, but also some of the most daring, intriguing, and rewarding.

Pastoral post-rock that re-imagines Bark Psychosis’ gauzy sounds for the British countryside.

These songs move in directions that are more interesting than the simple “shoegaze + metal” equation implies.

Unwed Sailor’s latest EP is particularly ambitious in scope and sonic diversity.