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Post-rock is a strange name for what is essentially a cousin to ambient music that happens to employ rock instruments. It is appealing for the same reasons ambient music is, it's about building music by focusing on atmosphere and timbre instead of melody or rhythm. So you get long songs that evoke feelings and let you sink into them instead of the usual verse-chorus structure, plus the bands have some inventive uses of guitar effects or other instruments. Although it's not universal, a lot of post-rock songs are structured around building up over time to reach an epic finale, and the anticipation of the slow build up draws the listener in. This is something that is harder to find in other ambient music, but common in places like classical music from the romantic era. Now, while all of these separate it from most typical rock music, there are plenty of other genres that have similar characteristics. I mentioned ambient as one of the closest cousins, but you can find it in classical (especially minimalist stuff), cool jazz and other places.@tanderbolt

Yeah, I had a feeling, "post-" had similarities with ambiance music because that is stuff that my brains just doesn't gravitate toward. (Though I do like jazz and classical elements in music, it usually it seems less simple.) Something what you said, I think you 100% right but at the same time, throwing a question for that. When you said, "Post music is usually music that slowly builds up to an epic finale." I feel that's a spot on analysis. But doesn't Prog already do that? I guess instead of a complex and layered build, you get a minimalist path instead? I guess I kind of wrap my around that.

@Lucian I'm very very inexperienced with K-Pop and other things of its kind. But I'm almost guaranteeing it's a similar reason people like wrestling. It's cheesy, and people love their cheese. I only really know of two K-Pop songs I like. Really, if you like pop music in general...it's pretty much the same kind of brainless fun/electronica you'd get anywhere else. Also just like the Japanese thinking speaking English sounds cool, some may like the language barrier. Some people like the concept of learning about others cultures, so they can get engulfed in them. Least my two cents.

I'll start light with a music question, What exactly is the appeal of "Post" genre. Post-Rock for instance, I've yet to really wrap my head around bands like it. Exactly what does it do unique to other genres...and what would you do to convince people that it was a genre worth listening to?

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