I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - 2003 - I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness EP

Genre: Post-Rock, Indie
Label: Secretly Canadian

Similar Artists: Bloc Party, Interpol

This is maybe the best bandname ever. It's their first ep and if you like Interpol or Bloc Party or Joy Division you may like them too. Maybe it's not 100% compareable with them, but just to give you a direction. Enjoy!

Tracklisting

1. We're Still The Weaker Sex
   
2. The Less You See
   
3. I Want To Die In The Hot Summer
   
4. When You Go Out
   
5. Your Worst Is The Best
   

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Ultra Milkmaids - Pocket Station (2006)

Ultra Milkmaids are well known for their great Dronework in the mid 90s. Later they formed the Surfin Barmaids to play plain Surf Rock because they get bored by experimental music/scene. This record shows a creative melange of shiny melodies, drone/psych/post-rock and - surprise - Surf Rock. And it works very well.

Label: Ant-Zen

Genre: Experimental, Post-Rock, Surf/Rock'n'Roll

Tracklisting:

1. So Sorry (3:21)
   
2. A Real Cry (3:56)
   
3. Less Dream (4:33)
   
4. My Star (6:05)
   
5. Why? (4:18)
   
6. The Greatest Smile (3:11)
   
7. In The Mood (5:20)
   
8. Us (2:24)
   
9. Empire (3:31)
   
10. The Heat (1:18)
    

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un automne à Lob-Nor - s/t (2001)

Second Album of this french group. Very clear and dimensional sound and beautiful tunes enriched with digital clicks and grainy soundscapes. Really each track on this record is full of pure beauty.

Label: les disques Serpentine - chronowax

Genre: Post-Rock, Electronic

Tracklisting

1. polar
   
2. boss A
   
3. katg
   
4. mugwump
   
5. wltz
   
6. rain trans
   

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Bonus:

Grab here a full liveset from 2001 in Amiens

and on top, the last existing recordings of un automne à Lob-Nor where released as free download EP on tri postal netlabel under the title Bye Bye. enjoy!

un automne à Lob-Nor - 41°N;90°E (1999)

First record of this wonderful french Post-Rock outfit.

Slow developing Post-Rock tracks beautified with digital sounds.

Sebastien Roux (guitar) is now performing in his own project.
Vincent Nicolas (samples/guitar/visuals) is now performing in his own project bidibop.
Jean Nicolas Heillouis (drums) and Alexandre Gouy (bass/guitar) are now playing in Pan European. More of Lobnor and related will come soon.

Label: les disques Serpentine - PIAS

Genre: Post Rock, Electronic, Instrumental

Tracklisting:

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including one Compilation Track from v.a. - Esprit III Aspic Project

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Ribbon Effect - Slip (2000)

A wonderful record for sunday mornings. Some noisy soundscapes, lovely tunes,  improvisations, organs, delayed guitars, happy drumboxing - all the stuff to make you feel good. Best soundtrack to start your day ;-).

Label: Roomtone Records
Genre: Electronic, Ambient, Post-Rock

Tracklisting:

1. Slip 1
   
2. Slip 2
3. Slip 3
   
4. Slip 4
   
5. Slip 5
   

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Some more Info:

Slippery ambient soundscapes, gurgles, and and rhythmic guitar vibrations abound.

Ribbon Effect was formed in 1998 by Bill Talsma, Jacob Ross, and Danielle Malkoff, who met while working at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio. The band produced their first self-titled recording combining the practice of studio manipulation with live performance in June, 1998. 1999 saw this four song EP followed by Danielle contributing the vocals to "Seafrance Cezanne" on Tarwater's Silur album, and the recording of more Ribbon Effect material. Later the same year, the band collaborated with visual artist Joel Ross on Slip, a multimedia show held in Chicago. Slip's presentation combined the trio's live performance with six video monitors projecting moving images that centered on an unidentified urban landscape.

This year, the instrumental tracks originally composed for the series of live performances were enhanced and recorded in the studio for SLIP, Ribbon Effect's debut full-length CD. The band's music is haunting and cinematic, alternately evoking stasis and motion. An interplay of chiming guitars, dub-inflected bass, lingering keyboard melodies and electronics gives way to desolate tones and barren soundscapes, which in turn evolve into pronounced rhythmic patterns. At times, SLIP recalls the exploratory studio excursions of Fridge, Pluramon, Pan American, Augustus Pablo, This Heat, and Rome. At times it does not. Enjoy!