post-rock

noun

post-rock

noun

Etymology From post- + rock. Coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994).

1

Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music A genre of music which uses rock instrumentation for songs with gradually unfolding structures that depend more on ambience and timbre than melody.

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