Alamist - Aztec Dreams

Artist: Alarmist
Track: Aztec Dreams
Album: Pal Magnet EP (2013)

Alarmist is an instrumental four-piece from Dublin, consisting of Neil Crowley, Elis Czerniak, Osgar Dukes and Barry O'Halpin. While inevitably compared to many acts on Ireland's healthy post/math-rock scene, Alarmist gained attention for their audibly wide range of influences.

Within their configuration of electric guitars, double drums and electronics, instrumental guitar music is only one touchstone, with the various members' backgrounds in jazz, electronica and contemporary composition infiltrating their tightly wound tracks.

Their performances are often enhanced by projections by live visuals artists Slipdraft.


Find @alarmistband on Twitter

You Break, You Buy

Artist: You Break, You Buy
Track: J Is For Genius
Album: Happy Happenstance (2014)

You Break, You Buy is a four-piece instrumental band with members from England, Ireland, Italy and Sweden.

They have to date released a 5 track EP in Happy Happenstance (2014) which you can stream on Spotify, or download digitally on Bandcamp. Or go old school and buy a CD for £5. Stay informed on Facebook. For fans of LITE, Enemies, Battles... etc.

They don't appear to Tweet.

Jardín de la Croix - Colorado Springs

Artist: Jardín de la Croix
Track: Colorado Springs
Album: 187 Steps to Cross the Universe (2013)

Jardín De La Croix is a Spanish progressive math rock band formed in 2007 in Madrid. The group finds itself at ease within its prominent and complex rhythmic structures and its layered harmonic guitars usually arranged in lengthy instrumental compositions.

To date Jardín de la Croix has released 3 albums, Pomeroy (2008), Ocean Cosmonauts (2011) and 187 Steps To Cross The Universe (2013). These are all available to download on Bandcamp, amazingly they are all free/name your price. If you want the CD, you can get it at Noma Records for €7 - please support these guys and throw some cash their way.

Twitter @jardindelacroix

By The End Of Tonight - Potential Getaway Driver

Artist: By The End Of Tonight
Track: Potential Getaway Driver
Album: ...In A Letter To The Sandbox (2003)

By the End of Tonight (often abbreviated to BTEOT) was an American instrumental rock band from Alvin, Texas. They were signed to notable post-rock label Temporary Residence Limited for their life as a band.

By the End of Tonight formed in 2003 and have toured with the likes of Anathallo, Tera Melos, Sleeping People, Buxton, and O Pioneers. They were signed to Temporary Residence after sending their demo '...In a Letter to the Sandbox'. The band announced through a Myspace bulletin in early 2009 after almost a year of inactivity that they had disbanded.

You can stream/download their music on Bandcamp, or be a real man and buy physical over on Temporary Residence.

Cleft - Hostage

Artist: Cleft
Track: Hostage
Album: BOSH! (2014)


Cleft is a 2-piece self dubbed "turbo-prog" band from Manchester, England. Download their music on Bandcamp.

To date they have released two EPs in 'Utter' (2012) and 'Whale Bone' (2012), followed by their debut full length 'BOSH!' in 2014. Cleft count bands such as Oceansize, Adebisi Shank, You Slut! and The Mars Volta among their influences.


Follow @cleftband on Twitter for stuff

Totorro - Chevalier Bulltoe

Artist: Totorro
Track: Chevalier Bulltoe
Album: Home Alone (2014)

Totorro is an instrumental post rock band from Rennes, France. To date they have release Totorro EP (2008), All Glory To John Baltor (2011) and their latest in Home Alone (2014). You can stream/download all these over on Bandcamp, and stay in touch on Facebook.

Follow @totorromusic on Twitter pour la dernière

Man Is Not A Bird - The Sounds of Spring

Artist: Man Is Not A Bird
Track: The Sounds of Spring
Album: TBC (2014)

Man Is Not A Bird is an instrumental post rock band from Paris, France. Their style blends post-rock ambiances with math-rock rhythms. The band cite Irish band And So I Watch You From Afar as an influence, and this is evident in their sound. They are currently recording their debut album, which was funded via crowd sourcing, check out the details here. Stay alert on Facebook.

Download all their music to date over on Bandcamp.

Follow @manisnotabird on Twitter for the latest on their debut album

Haisuinonasa - Dynamics of the Subway

Artist: Haisuinonasa
Track: Dynamics of the Subway
Album: Animal Body (2012)

Haisuinonasa is a 4 piece math rock band from Japan, who to date have a mini album in "About Town" (2009) and one full length in "Animal Body" (2012). Currently signed to Zankyo Records, the band's next release is entitled "Reflection" due for release this year.

SFollow @haisuinonasa on Twitter for latest updates

Zero Absolu - The Hill

Artist: Zero Absolu
Track: The Hill
Album: Autømn (2012)

Zero absolu (Absolute zero) is the work of Nak, a post rock / electronic act from France. The project initially started on the back of hardcore band Saoni ma calling it a day, is cites Mogwai and Cult of Luna among his influences.

Download Autømn and more over on Bandcamp for pennies, and grab official merch over at Big Cartel.
 
Follow @Zeroabsolu on Twitter for latest updates

The Samuel Jackson Five - Never-Ending Now

Artist: The Samuel Jackson Five
Track: Never-Ending Now
Album: S/T (2012)

The Samuel Jackson Five is a Norwegian post-rock band based in Oslo . The group started in 2001 as a drum and bass project, visited various other genres before it finally became a post-rock band. The name is a word game based on the combination of Samuel Jackson and Jackson 5 .

Buy S/T and three previous albums over at Denovali, and stay up to date through their Facebook page.

The Samuel Jackson Five is Twitterless ...

Enemies - Indian Summer

Artist: Enemies
Track: Indian Summer
Album: Embark, Embrace (TBC 2013)

Enemies is a math rock band from Co. Wicklow, Ireland which has been a epicentre for DIY independent music in Ireland over the last few years with bands like Adebisi Shank, Kidd Blunt and Heathers first forging their sound in the area. In Spring 2008 they released their debut EP 'Alpha Waves' which led to two Japanese labels Machu Picchu Industries and Stiff Slack picking up the band for releases. A two-week tour of Japan followed in which they played sold-out shows in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya and Kyoto.

Back closer to home, the band played gigs in the UK and Ireland on bills with bands like And So I Watch You From Afar, BATS, Not Squares, Marvins Revolt and Blakfish. After the success of the band's debut album 'We've Been Talking' (2010), they released a limited edition 7” vinyl featuring the songs 'Coco Et Moi' and 'Robert Reid' (Bandcamp).

The band has recently been signed to Boston label Top Shelf Records, who will release their forthcoming album 'Embark, Embrace' on 25th May in the Button Factory, Dublin. More information on this release can be found on the band's Facebook page, and you can get the back catalog over on Bandcamp. Don't delay.

Follow @enemiesmusic on Twitter for latest updates

Stop All The Clocks - Atrocious Grammer

Artist: Stop All The Clocks
Track: Atrocious Grammer

Stop All The Clocks is an instrumental post rock band formed in July 2012 in Dublin. Though the band have only been going for a relatively short time, they are already renoun for their live performances.

At present there's little online presence, but you can keep up to date through the Facebook page. This is a video NOT to be missed, and if you have the chance to see them live - jump at it.

Stop All The Clocks are Twitterless...

Jardín de la Croix - Blacksnout Seasnail

Artist: Jardín de la Croix
Track: Blacksnout Seasnail
Album: Ocean Cosmonauts (2011)

Jardín de la Croix is a Spanish instrumental math rock band formed in 2007 in Madrid. The group finds itself at ease within its prominent and complex rhythmic structures and its layered harmonic guitars usually arranged in lengthy instrumental compositions

To date Jardín de la Croix have released 3 albums, Pomeroy (2008), Ocean Cosmonauts (2011) and 187 Steps To Cross The Universe (2013). These are all available to download on Bandcamp, amazingly they are all free/name your price. If you want the CD, you can get it at Noma Records for €8 - please support these guys and throw some cash their way.

Follow @jardindelacroix on Twitter for latest updates

Adebisi Shank - International Dreambeat

Artist: Adebisi Shank
Track: International Dreambeat
Album: This Is the Second Album of a Band Called Adebisi Shank (2008)

Adebisi Shank are a three-piece instrumental rock trio from Wexford, Ireland consisting of guitarist Larry Kaye, bass guitarist Vincent McCreith and drummer Michael Roe. Their name is a reference to the Oz character Simon Adebisi. Having a style of music described as "seriously upbeat math-rocky craziness" they have released two studio albums and one extended play in their career.

They are currently signed to the Sargent House label, and you can keep up to date on Facebook, as well as grabbing releases from their Bandcamp. Here's another favourite from the above album, (-_-)

Follow @AdebisiShank on Twitter for latest updates

The Continuous Battle Of Order - 004 & 005

Artist: The Continuous Battle Of Order
Track: 004, 005
Album: Pattern Seekers (2010)

The Continuous Battle of Order is guitarist Hornby and drummer Craig Kearney, a two-piece avant-rock band from Ireland, rising from previous band We Are Knives.

Debut album ‘Pattern Seekers’ was released in April 2010, and they are completing work on the follow-up which will be released by Dublin’s Richter Collective label. Check them out on Facebook, MySpace, and download 'Pattern Seekers' on Bandcamp for €5.

Follow @ContBatt on Twitter for latest updates

té - 音の中の『痙攣的』な美は、観念を超え肉体に訪れる野生の戦慄。

Artist: té
Track: 音の中の『痙攣的』な美は、観念を超え肉体に訪れる野生の戦慄。
Album: 音の中の『痙攣的』な美は、観念を超え肉体に訪れる野生の戦慄。 (2012)

Japanese instrumental quartet, té, formed in Tokyo, Japan in 2004. The band quickly gained praise from critics and fans alike due to their energetic and inspirational live performances. Their latest release 音の中の『痙攣的』な美は、観念を超え肉体に訪れる野生の戦慄。(Beauty "jerky" in the sound, the horror of the body beyond the idea to visit the wild) is available now on iTunes, and other merch available on their Facebook.

*These guys have a massive sound, a MUST listen*

Giraffes? Giraffes! - A Quick One, While She's Away

Artist: Giraffes? Giraffes!
Track: A Quick One, While She's Away
Album: More Skin With Milk-Mouth (2007)

Giraffes? Giraffes! is a psychedelic math rock band from Western Massachusetts made up of Joseph Andreoli (guitar, loops, effects) and Kenneth Topham (drums, percussion, glockenspiel, bells, pots and pans).

Ken and Joe grew up in Massachusetts. Joe and Ken first met while going to college in New Hampshire. Ken studied music, while Joe studied literature. They formed a band. They can both play guitar and drums, but in Giraffes? Giraffes! Joe taps and plucks while Ken taps and hits.

Loves In Heat records released Giraffes? Giraffes! album “More Skin With Milk-Mouth” on December 8th, 2007.



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Nice Wings, Icarus! - Mastodon

Artist: Nice Wings, Icarus!
Track: Mastodon
Album: Aurora (2011)

Nice Wings, Icarus! is an violin-driven instrumental band from the Ukraine. Formed in February 2008 by Yuriy Nagorniy (guitar) and Yuriy Kasyanenko (drums), with Sergiy Zaika (guitar), Vadim Matuzenko (bass) and Daniil Grudzinskiy (violin), they have released 2 albums, Nice Wings, Icarus! and Aurora.

Buy both releases on Bandcamp.

Time Columns - Hundred Flowers

Artist: Time Columns
Track: Hundred Flowers
Album: Sunriseinthesea EP (2010)

Time Columns combines the radical elements of live looping and tight instrumentation with elements of math rock, post-rock, progressive rock, and hip-hop. Their music is hook-heavy and melodic, while utilizing complex rhythmic meters to bring the music to a state that is uniquely “Time Columns”.

Download the album for free here.

This is the album mix, watch a live version to see how it's looped.



Follow @TimeColumns on Twitter for latest updates.

Lite - Image Game

Artist: Lite
Track: Image Game
Album: For All The Innocence (2011)

Lite is a Japanese instrumental rock band. Lite's sound combines the precision and musicianship of prog rock with the emotionally charged cinematic compositions of art rock, in a heavier, more modern package that they describe as “math rock”.

New album For All The Innocence due for release 6th July, 2011.



Follow @LITE_JP on Twitter for latest updates.