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This is music once generally conducted at a far easier tempo, but such intricacy is very much par for the course for today's post/math-rock band, as they explore every possible path out of the post-hardcore rut.
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People were pogo-ing to the math-rock of the Big Sleep, a Brooklyn band that takes tangents into visceral punk and metal before unveiling new patterns.
Bonnaroo: Tie-dye, Hacky Sack, Bikinis - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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There was another contender, too: Battles, whose math-rock intricacies arrive with overlays of folk-dance melodic zigzags and hints of loop and echo machines going haywire.
Bonnaroo: No Need to Work This Crowd - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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People were pogo-ing to the math-rock of the Big Sleep, a Brooklyn band that takes tangents into visceral punk and metal before unveiling new patterns.
Bonnaroo: Tie-dye, Hacky Sack, Bikinis - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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There was another contender, too: Battles, whose math-rock intricacies arrive with overlays of folk-dance melodic zigzags and hints of loop and echo machines going haywire.
Bonnaroo: No Need to Work This Crowd - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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The music is often in changeable, irregular meters that later indie-rockers would categorize as math-rock, while the vocals are muttered as much as sung.
Pitchfork Music Festival: Sonic Youth Brings Back ‘Daydream Nation’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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The music is often in changeable, irregular meters that later indie-rockers would categorize as math-rock, while the vocals are muttered as much as sung.
Pitchfork Music Festival: Sonic Youth Brings Back ‘Daydream Nation’ - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Dragons of Zynth are all over the place: psychedelia tweaked by hardcore, math-rock besieged by feedback, buzzing Minimalism hijacked by power-trio riffs, a pair of singers who could croon in tandem or set up a byplay of sweetly sustained melody and wild ranting.
CMJ Music Marathon: Dragons of Zynth - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Dragons of Zynth are all over the place: psychedelia tweaked by hardcore, math-rock besieged by feedback, buzzing Minimalism hijacked by power-trio riffs, a pair of singers who could croon in tandem or set up a byplay of sweetly sustained melody and wild ranting.
CMJ Music Marathon: Dragons of Zynth - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Ostensibly, this Canonic record is by the Philly-based oddball math-rock group Pattern Is Movement, but see, the album says "Scott Solter plays Pattern Is Movement" all over it.
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