[For Beginners] Popular Post-Rock Songs in Western Music: A Curated List of Recommended Classics

Though the definition of the genre known as post-rock is ambiguous, it garnered worldwide attention as experimental music that goes beyond the conventional framework of rock.

While its instrumentation—guitars, drums, and so on—often mirrors that of a rock band, its distinctive soundscapes and structures give it a cinematic expansiveness, much like a film soundtrack, and many bands make bold use of electronics as well.

In this article, we present works that will broaden your musical horizons, focusing on popular and classic tracks by representative bands from the 1990s to 2000s—the period when the genre truly spread—even as many bands continue to adopt post-rock approaches today.