If you are one of those people who associates the label “post-rock” with music built of cavernous squalls of guitars and untethered sonics raging across the musical landscape, then Guild Theory is just what you need in your life, or at least their latest single, “Indignant Swines” is. Why? Because it does something new with post-rock, it takes it to a more interesting place, so much so that for this single at least, Guild Theory should regard itself as a post-post-rock band.
What I love about “Indignant Swines,” besides the name, is the time the song takes to get comfortable in its own sonic skin. It comes on like a sort of cross between a Gregorian Chant and a Prog-rock ballad and then proceeds to slowly cocoon itself with additional sonics and musical weight until it heads towards the finishing line wrapped in soaring and shimmering guitars and anthemic grandeur but still retaining the grace and restraint at its core.
This is the slow burn at work. That ability to evolve a song so incrementally that it is only in hindsight that you realise how far you have come, how distant the gentle sonic slopes of the song’s birth now are. And by the time you get to the other end of this sonic journey, and for once, that phrase has been used in a proper context, misconceptions will be smashed, generic tags abandoned, and you will have even less idea about what post-rock is. All of this makes the world a better, less definable and more creative place to live in. And that can only be a good thing, right? Quite right!
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