postrock

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

OriginEnglish rock ← Latin post ← Old Latin poste →
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Meanings

nounpostrock (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountableAlternative form of post-rock.

    His playing on a song like this evokes the Delta tradition even as it burns and screams its testimony to the postrock necessities of 80s blues.

    1988 August 19, David Whiteis, “The blues and Moore”, in Chicago Reader

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Englishrock
  8. Englishpostrock

From post- + rock.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

postrock. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrock

MLA

“postrock.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrock. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postrock,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postrock.

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