The music is instrumental post-rock of the Tortoise school, a hybrid sound that draws from rock, techno, ambient, and jazz. But, refreshingly, it lacks the kinds of artistic pretensions that lead musicians to apply labels like post-rock to their music. To Rococo Rot just rides along through pleasant, sometimes oddly jarring musical landscapes with a minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of groove. The music has an aimlessness that actually comes as a kind of a relief, as if there's nowhere to be, no grand statement to make. To Rococo Rot is only interested in the journey -- which winds through a warm landscape of shifting patterns, dynamic textures, and weird samples and is powered by smooth, confident electro beats and rhythms...More
The music is instrumental post-rock of the Tortoise school, a hybrid sound that draws from rock, techno, ambient, and jazz. But, refreshingly, it lacks the kinds of artistic pretensions that lead musicians to apply labels like post-rock to their music. To Rococo Rot just rides along through pleasant, sometimes oddly jarring musical landscapes with a minimum of self-consciousness and a maximum of groove. The music has an aimlessness that actually comes as a kind of a relief, as if there's nowhere to be, no grand statement to make. To Rococo Rot is only interested in the journey -- which winds through a warm landscape of shifting patterns, dynamic textures, and weird samples and is powered by smooth, confident electro beats and rhythms...
