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Animals is what brought me here.
Grow by chon is a great starter
Toe
Best album of the lot too
This is the answer. Cheers!
My fellow toe brethren
i don’t think the hella is an intro album
It gets a while to get into, I’d say. It’s too chaotic and can even sound like structure-less mess at first, but once you listen to it multiple times, it opens up. To this very day I notice new things when I listen to it.
Hella is the most quintessential math rock on this list IMO.
I agree, but it is an intimidating listen! 🥸
Piglet - Lavaland No other options are feasible
Based and Goated
Definitely not 'Hold your horse Is'
Literally the truest, straightest math rock album on the list
It's one of my favorite albums, but not one I'd recommend for starters
Toe. For me, math rock must have little to no vocals
Can someone comment the list of the album names and their respective bands please, thank you.
TTNG - Animals
Hella - Hold Your Horse Is
Slint - Spiderland
Toe - the book about my idle plot on a vague anxiety
Battles - Gloss Drop
Polyphia - New Levels New Devils
ghost city was mine and i still believe it’s the best. changed my entire taste in music i fucking love it
Spiderland and exploded drawing did me in
I got into mathrock through toe then TTNG. I think Lava Land by Piglet is probably what I would recommend though.
Tera Melos shoud be here.
I wonder how many get into math rock by listening to bands with mathy elements and going deeper from there - most kids in my friend group started with Minus The Bear
That was me. Listened to a lot of twinkly, mathy emo like American Football. From there found my way to TTNG and Fall of Troy and after that the floodgates opened with a smattering of different math rock bands.
What Burns Never Returns was my intro, I still think that or one of the other Don Cab albums is a good starting point
HELLA!!!!!!!!!
On this list I would say animals, because it's my favorite album. But as far as showing someone who has no idea what math rock is, I would say Polyphia (whatever that album is called). Now, I don't think polyphia is math rock, but a lot of people do, and will comment about it, which will probably in turn cause the newbie to look further into the genre. That's how I got into math rock actually. It led me to audiotree which led me to the TTNG session.
For an album not from this list, Lava Land by Piglet
No Don Caballero?
Spiderland and What Burns brought me here
Depends who you’re showing it to, or if it’s yourself, what you’re into already. Each has their own things to find interesting. Eccentric weirdos will like Hella and Battles. Gen X will probably feel Slint the most. Don’t think I’ve ever showed TTNG to a woman who didn’t like it.
toe
For Respect (1993).
Based.
animals used to be my favourite album ever and the one I played the most when I was 14/15.
Wait Spiderland is math rock?
It depends how you're defining math rock. They use odd time signatures, but that's about it. I've always considered them post-rock.
Toe and TTNG are the best and most accessible here, but this hypothetical newbie will have to get to Slint eventually.
TTNG Animals is one of my all time favourite albums and great entry into math rock
😯
Begin at the (near) beginning: Spiderland
While I guess it technically counts I've never really associated Spiderland with math rock. But maybe that's because I discovered it years after getting into the genre.
Spiderland is what got me interested in post rock.
TTNG was the first math rock band I had ever listened to, so 100% animals.
of these, TTNG's Animals
but I would overall recommend something Minus the Bear, one of their first 3 albums though, like Menos el Oso
Should have done Mirrored by Battles instead