Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster are a London based act formed in 2008 with a shared love of Progressive Metal and Instrumental Post-Rock. In September they put the finishing touches to their debut album, "Collapse".
The band's list of influences includes Isis, Russian Circles and Red Sparrows. Not much help to me, as I haven't heard of any of those bands. I even had to look up what 'post-rock' was - basically using rock instruments for rhythms, harmonies, melodies and chord progressions not traditionally associated with rock music. In fact, if you're into categorisation, these guys may even be described as 'post-metal'.
The tracks mostly at some point break into a grungy fuzz version of doom metal. Elsewhere you can have quiet/weird/spacey sounds which have a hypnotic quality. I'm not sure individual tracks mean that much in this type of music - it feels like a bit of a mega-jam session. Everything is loose and some of the tracks seem to meander and don't have a focus. Tracks that worked best for me were the doom metal sounding "Duggah", the vaguely relaxing "Tokyo Rose" and the epic slow build up closer "Twenty".
As this was my introduction to post-rock, I'd don't have any references to compare this with directly. It's a bit out there & modern for me, although most of my instrumental listening recently has actually been ambient stuff like Future Sounds Of London & Saru, so I'm expanding my musical horizons. Maybe I get around to 'post-rock' eventually. If you are an adventurous Mood Swings reader then check out the band at their MySpace page.
