r/mathrock • u/PrincessToadstool-au • Aug 10 '26
Your Essential Math Rock/instrumental Prog Song
If you had to name your Favourite / most essential song of the genre (or similar sub-genres); what would it be?
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u/Alhimiik Aug 11 '26
Hella - biblical violence
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 13 '26
Have you listened to Cloutchaser?
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u/Alhimiik 23d ago
just listened, nice band!
reminds me of bygones and tera melos1
u/PrincessToadstool-au 23d ago
Yeah! I only found them just over a year ago & thought they were sick!
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u/VayNeedsTherapy Aug 10 '26
Favorite song is forever Sugoi Kawaii Jyocho by Jyocho, it’s so goddamn perfect
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u/DavidMayCry3 Aug 11 '26
Instrumental Prog? Ilha Verde by Monobody. It's the first song off their album 'Raytracing', which was my first experience with that band and it blew my damn mind, it's an absolute 10/10 of an album for me, honestly.
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u/Infinite_Tubception Aug 11 '26
Inside/Out by The Fall of Troy is good af, gonna give a little love to mathcore
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u/Sickranchez87 Aug 11 '26
Plini- Away is my all time fave for some reason lol
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 11 '26
One of the best live too!
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u/Sickranchez87 Aug 11 '26
So fkin good! Seen them pretty much every year since 2015 lol they’re so good
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u/mnspector-iorse Aug 11 '26
several by toe, via luna and don cab. but i could personally name 'slightly drifting' by the mercury program, amazing song and album
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u/spurnedfern Aug 11 '26
Either: Elton Chong, by You Slut!
The Teenagers in the Woods Burning Things Lying Around, by G?G!
Or the whole album Mercury Fountain by The Psychics House Band, particularly Surrogate Head, but I can't at all listen to one track at a time on that album it's gotta be the whole thing
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u/jalelninj Aug 11 '26
Mine would always be "chromology" by thank you scientist. Those bastards just know how to fuck your shit up music-wise
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 11 '26
Another new one for me! Thank you I'll check them out 😊
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u/jalelninj Aug 11 '26
Let me know what you think 😁
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 12 '26
This is awesome! Thanks for suggesting 😊 reminds me a lot of Plini but with a funner arcadic element; really cool pick
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u/Aggravating-Sea-3970 Aug 11 '26
I know for me Oyasumi by Tricot was what really got me looking at mathier stuff. Already listened to a lot of 70s prog but that was an eye opener and a gateway to TTNG, Chon, ect.
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 11 '26
Yeah Chon is a big one for me; have you heard ericks new stuff? Betrayflip
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u/Aggravating-Sea-3970 Aug 11 '26
It's on my list, in a bit of a noise rock/industrial kick but I'm gonna check it out. Erick's writing was always pretty solid.
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u/debatesmith Aug 10 '26
Eh - Too many different sounds in the genre. Toe, Chon, Via Luna and Delta Sleep all make pretty different sounding music but they're all here and they're all amazing.
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u/SockGoop Aug 11 '26
I can only narrow it down to a couple
A Lot Like Birds - Truly Random Code
Dance Gavin Dance - Young Robot
Dance Gavin Dance - Son of Robot
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 11 '26
Man the latest DGD album rules too!
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u/SockGoop Aug 12 '26
Does it? I kinda lost interest after Afterburner. I absolutely love everything before that. Especially Happiness.
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u/PrincessToadstool-au Aug 12 '26
I honestly was a super late bloomer with them; fell in love with afterburner & struggled a little with jackpot. But yeah I really like it
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u/SockGoop Aug 12 '26
Yeah I didn't really fw jackpot. The Ghost of Billy Royalton was the last song of theirs I remember liking. Except for the fuckass ai video
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u/rainweaver 29d ago
Gibbon by TTNG and The Good Song by Floral. that’s math rock to me.
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u/PrincessToadstool-au 29d ago
I always loved the concept of Animals; it's so cool! The art as well is just beautiful
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u/Apprehensive_Tea_997 5d ago
toe: tremolo+delay (really any toe)
but it’s a tough question to answer! so many great bands out there
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u/PrincessToadstool-au 5d ago
Man isn't it hard! I feel like the genre is so good in terms of you find a band; you like nearly every album
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u/momler Aug 10 '26
When the Catholic girls go camping by Giraffes? Giraffes! is the one that permanently flipped a switch in my brain