Rumah Sakit - Rumah Sakit (2000)

This is a really great math rock/post-rock record. This band's bassist is Kenseth Thibideau, who was also in Tarentel, which is a really great post-rock band that some of you probably know. These are the facts. This is the post.

Track listing:

1. I Can't See Anything When I Close My Eyes

2. Scott & Jeremiah

3. Careful with That Fax Machine

4. Wind & Wing

5. Bring on the Cobras

6. Stomacheache Due to the Sincere Belief That the Rest of My Band Is Trying to Kill Me

This is the download link.

These are links to posts about albums that I think people who like this album would also like:

Oxes - Oxes (2000)

Purplene - Purplene (2004)

Purplene - Purplene (2004)

A near-perfect swan song from this short-lived Australian group. Elements of emo, math rock, and post-rock coalesce in a warm, strangely meditative sound powered by tasteful, angular guitar work, understated vocals, skittering drumming, and subtle, thoughtful compositions.

Track listing:

1. Love: Western

2. Swords Down

3. Lyonhardt

4. The Battler

5. Second Shift

6. Scares for Sores

7. Cahoots = 1

8. Watch the Watch

They're on to us

If you like this, you should hear:

Gastr del Sol - Camofleur (1998)

U.S. Maple - Purple on Time (2003)

Oxes - Oxes (2000)

Related:
Long Live Death - To Do More Than God... to Die (2003)

Heavy instrumental rock from The City That Bleeds. Oxes were Baltimore's biggest indie rock export until Dan Deacon came along. They generally get called "math rock," but that makes them sound a lot less visceral than they actually are. This is engaging, high-energy stuff that has a lot more in common with The Fucking Champs than Don Caballero, and it was matched with one of the best live shows I've ever seen -- between the cable-free guitars and being hilarious, I don't think they ever met a crowd they couldn't win-over.

(They were also masters of the song title game. I've always wondered if anyone ever catches that my handle is an Oxes reference. If so, they haven't said anything.)

Track listing:
1. Dear Spirit, I'm in France
2. I'm from Hell, Open a Windle
3. Panda Strong
4. Your Street vs. Wall Street
5. Horses Are OK
6. And Giraffe, Natural Enemies
7. Riki Creem Calls This One "Chivas Regal"

Say something to bees about not praying and don't bothering

Also of interest:

Lungfish -
Artificial Horizon (1998)

Trans Am -
Futureworld (1999)

Trans Am - Futureworld (1999)

Super-sweet fourth album by Maryland stalwarts Trans Am. While still loosely based in knotty, hard-hitting, synth-y math rock, this time it's shaped by vocals -- all-vocoder, at that -- and has some serious krautrock vibes that at times drive them into a queasy, fully synthesized dream-state. The late 90s were a real golden age for techno-angst/fear of a dystopian future that wasn't too far off from the one that we currently live in, and this record has that shit in spades.

Track listing:
1. 1999
2. Television Eyes
3. Futureworld
4. City in Flames
5. Am Rhein
6. Cocaine Computer
7. Runners Standing
8. Futureworld II
9. Positron
10. Sad and Young

If the air was transparent
I'd float away

You might also like:

Alien Sex Fiend -
"It" The Album (1986)

Fujiya & Miyagi -
Ventriloquizzing (2011)

Trephine - Trephine (2005)

Related:
Meatjack - Days of Fire (2003)
Darsombra - Climax Community (2012)

Heavy instrumental math rock, or math-y instrumental post-metal, or whatever other combination of interrelated subgenres you feel like tossing in a blender. A great band with extremely dialed-in tones.

Track listing:
1. Goes to Hell, Mr. Wiggles (Part One)
2. Age of Reptiles
3. Metal Detector
4. Devil's Activist
5. Axolotyl
6. Resident Advisor
7. Adrenochrome
8. Goes to Hell, Mr. Wiggles (Part Two)

Yes, people do die from fear

You might also enjoy:

Wildildlife -
Six (2007)

Eagle Twin - The Feather
Tipped the Serpent's Scale (2012)

Extra Life - Dream Seeds (2012)

Grim experimental rock. Sounds range from mournful, piano-and-string ballads to harsh, metallic heaviness, all with distinctive, carefully enunciated vocals and disturbing, deeply depressing lyrical concerns.

Track listing:
1. No Dreams Tonight
2. Righteous Seed
3. Discipline for Edwin
4. Little One
5. First Song
6. Blinded Beast
7. Ten Year Teardrop

I can't look at you
You'd find me out
I can't touch you
I'd make an omelette out of you

If you like this, check out:

Skin -
Shame, Humility, Revenge (1988)

Rowland S. Howard -
Teenage Snuff Film (1999)