Post-rock is a genre of alternative rock characterized by the use of musical instruments commonly associated with rock music, but using rhythms, harmonies, melodies, timbre, and chord progressions that are not usually found in rock tradition. It is the use of 'rock instrumentation' for non-rock purposes. Practitioners of the genre's style typically produce instrumental music.
As with many musical genres, the term is arguably inadequate as a concise descriptor: for example, Don Caballero and Tortoise were among the more prominent bands of the 1990s described as post-rock, but the two bands' music has very little in common besides the fact that they are both instrumental and centere ...
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Positive hopeful track with a Post Rock feel. Picked electric guitar along with acoustic rhythm guitar and tight clean drums. Smooth Lush strings build to a powerful euphoric happy ending. Would be great for movie scenes, news, youtube video, corporate presentations. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
An uneasy, ambient rock track with noir and electronic shades. Obsessive piano theme is gradually enriched with synths and groovy drum pattern that lead to a nervous and restless outro. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Indie Rock
Calm and peaceful, uplifting, ambient rock track with dreamy arpeggio and nature sounds on the back emulated by shakers. Emotional and passionate. The track changes from sweet and soft to post-rock at the end. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
An evocative, emotional track with melancholic shades. Glitched beds made with dry guitars, synths and wordless vocal emulate the sound of the wind. The song rises up to a post-rock outro. Male Vocals, Rock, Post-Rock
Positive and emotional film score track with acoustic guitar arpeggio overture evolve into an epic orchestral chorus. Natural-sounding instruments with some electronic soft percussion groove and orchestral timpani hits and rises. Fantasy / Adventure / challenge / drama. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
Contemplative restoring experimental song. Delay saturated electric guitar with padded feedback loops, full bodied hypnotic bass, and clean transparent drums make this track great for walking on beaches, discovering something new, inventing, montages, awakening to a fresh purpose, new relationships. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Moody synth strings create a haunting soundscape, with dark synth sounds moving underneath. Builds steadily with angelic, dancing melodies. Airy and uplifting. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Beautiful melodic guitars ensemble with an authentic cinematic feel to it. Perfect for driving car scenes, reflective walks at night and slowed down sports clips. Consisting of electric guitar loops effects with non traditional time signature and patterns collage ethereal sacred garden heavenly, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Grand and uplifting modern ambient piece. Folksy finger-picking guitar layered with dancing clean lead guitar, digital bass, electronic drums and a cavernous piano melody. Sounds like Explosions In the Sky or similar post-rock bands. Great for natural imagery, exposition scenes. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Delicate two-part song written as an ode to the early hours of the day. Features patiently dueling twinkling guitars, and an uplifting outro with biting acoustic guitars and distant piano. Would suit sunrise scenes particularly with natural imagery. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Dark, reflective Post-Rock song driven by reverb-heavy guitars and drums. Middle section features droning, feedback-ridden guitars cascading over pounding drums. Back end features folksy fingerpicking guitar and dancing plucked strings. Perfect for grand, thoughtful film score. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Slow and moving atmospheric track driven by reverb-heavy clean guitars and sparse electronic drums leading to a back-end of ethereal melodies and textures. Great for landscape or nature scenes particularly driving, snow, rain, skylines or the ocean. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Full-band style post-rock track with a very raw, punk drive. Pensive electric guitar chords lead into a crashing, powerful end passage with pounding drums and reverb-heavy guitars being fed into a tape machine that twists and warbles. The track builds to a wall of noise that cuts out abruptly. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Pensive moody ambient track. Layers of dark reverb-heavy swells rumble through a sombre chord progression, joined by ethereal high notes. The end of the track features an experimental, powerful blues style guitar solo ideal for emotional scenes in nature or broad landscapes. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Triumphant building post-rock track. Features delicate piano, crisp drumming and powerful synth sounds. Very angelic and ethereal tonality, great for final scenes, triumphant moments, film conclusions or closing credits. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Uplifting and building ethereal rock track with influences from various indie rock artists as well as more commercial music from bands like coldplay and U2. Driving electric guitars with big delays and big acoustic drums and bass. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Mellow and introspective with ambient guitars and moving guitar licks to create a mood of melancholy that would fit a peaceful television scene, nature documentary, or a commercial or corporate video that is not very intense. Instrumental, Corporate, Corp. Pop Easy Listening
Chimey picked guitars, calming flow & guitar melody, and introspective feelings galore as this peaceful song starts, slightly builds with lead guitar and piano, and then softly ends. Imagine this as background to a corporate narrative video, a mid-tempo commercial, or of course, a beautiful sunrise. Instrumental, Corporate, Corp. Pop Easy Listening
The beginning of this songs features some quick electric guitar strums to create some tension and excitement; this is followed by awesome finger tapping leads backed with electronic drums and ambient guitar swells throughout. High energy chase, flying, race, dance, fast paced scences, Instrumental, Dramatic, Energizing Music
"Greener Grass" is a somber post-rock piece that is comprised of lonesome acoustic guitar, ethereal electric guitars, and and haunting electronic percussion.
The mood of the music is reflective, set by repetitious themes that are enhanced by persistent melodies which reappear throughout the piece, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Completely beautiful flowing track from the beginning straight through the end. Only two guitars bring everything they've got to pull this ambient soundscape together. Going to clean catchy picking straight through the booming chords to intense action and finishing off with a clean movement of notes, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Dreamy track that fills your head and numbs your thoughts. Great for scenes involving clearing up, dream sequences, flashbacks, and reminiscing. Reverse delay guitar work and tweaking effects produce this track. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Draws you in very cautiously to the mind of our hero, and takes you for a beautiful path in his shoes with dramatic guitar riffs that stretch out with such a happy epic. Unbelievably well written film music! You have definitley got to give your head a chance to hear this!:), Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
A sort of suttle post-rock song, light guitar arpeggios and riffs, with light drums working out the experimental feel, that would be great as a cover song in a TV song, Tv music, background film music, very good for web commercials. But it builds into a little more lively action! A must hear! Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Ambient Post Rock Clean Instrumental Indie Underground Beautiful Atmospheric Shoegaze Minimalist dark alternative experimental space sky documentary interview background music elevator timbre delay swell avant-garde noise dynamic texture repetitive build ups soft droning soundscape drama dream crime, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Ambient Post Rock Clean Instrumental Indie Underground Beautiful Atmospheric Shoegaze Minimalist dark alternative experimental space sky documentary interview background music elevator timbre delay swell avant-garde noise dynamic texture repetitive build ups soft droning soundscape drama dream crime, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Ambient Post Rock Clean Instrumental Indie Underground Beautiful Atmospheric Shoegaze Minimalist dark alternative experimental space sky documentary interview background music elevator timbre delay swell avant-garde noise dynamic texture repetitive build ups soft droning soundscape drama dream crime, Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Experimental, atmospheric, psychedelic rock song. 80's psychedelia with lots of guitar noise and effects. Hypnotic tune and backup vocals in "Pink Floyd" style. Works well for loners and absorbed persons. Nice for experimental - scifi movies, ot psychedelic drug scenes. Male Vocals, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
Mid Tempo Pop Country track. bass and drums. guitars. echos. commercials. movies and TV. Internet radio... travel channel. Instrumental, Indie Rock, Post-Rock
