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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A genre of music which uses rock instrumentation for songs with gradually unfolding structures that depend more on ambience and timbre than melody. uncountable

Etymology

From post- + rock. Coined by Simon Reynolds in issue 123 of The Wire (May 1994).

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