The Monstrous Surplus

"Post-rock" as a fusion of the instrumentation and song structures of rock & roll with those of a range of more commercially marginal styles such as dub, ambient, techno, and Krautrock has been asserted primarily to be an American phenomenon, an assertion usually supported by reference to groups such as Tortoise, Labradford, Jessamine, Rome, and others associated with Chicago's Kranky and Thrill Jockey labels. But while many of those groups have been instrumental in propagating the style to a...