Montreal post-rock is usually explained as a sound. It is better explained as real estate: an Anglo exodus, a loft above a garage, 500 hand-glued LPs, and two venues opened by a bass player. How Mile End built the infrastructure first.
Most scenes announce themselves. They get a club, a compilation, a name coined by a journalist who needs a headline. Louisville, Kentucky did almost none of that, and somewhere in the gap between roughly 1985 and 1995 a handful of teenagers from the same river city quietly assembled the vocabulary that math rock and post-rock […]
