Lonely and plaintive post-indie soundscapers Motion Picture Soundtrack draw “Glass Figures” with their echoing melodies. Actually, it’s pretty good, this.

Self-professed international post-rock ambient explorers Hollow Branches take a coldly beautiful trip into the haze of memory on their Anchored In Sleep EP.

Blueneck are bigger than the term post-rock, so they say, but second album The Fallen Host is as canonical it could be, in all the best possible ways.

Pisa is best known for that infamous leaning tower, but if there’s any justice it’ll get extra kudos for housing epic and proggy post-metallers Watzlawick.

What would make a good band do a Christmas single? Who knows – but El Dog’s post-rock take on “Let It Snow” is something a bit different, to say the least.

Mike Vennart of Mancunian post-prog stalwarts Oceansize takes some time out to answer a few questions about touring, releasing an “ambient” EP, and Una Stubbs.

Blending a hint of country and a pinch of psychedelia with spacious grungy alt-rock, Confederate Dead’s Wrecking Ball is both gloomy and glorious at once.

Chicago duo-plus-one Russian Circles return with their third album, Geneva, taking their fluid post-metal compositions to new breadths of texture and emotion.

London guitar-and-drum duo Dead Days Beyond Help aren’t the usual mess of faux-garage clichés; Access Denied! is studded with avant-post-rock gems.

Like post-metal? Like bellowing and angry post-hardcore? Between The Screams got your missing link right here, buddy, so prepare for Our Last Days On Earth.