Math rock sounds like blueprints look: exact precise architectural. This trance-like
progressive metal music with indie rock and jazz influences has been captivating and
challenging listeners for decades. Bands associated with the genre include King Crimson Black
Flag Don Caballero Slint American Football Toe Elephant Gym Covet and thousands more. In
an online age of bedroom producers and sampled beats and loops math rock is music that is
absolutely and resolutely played: men and woman in rooms with instruments creating chaos
beauty and beautiful chaos. This is the first book-length look at the global phenomenon.
Containing interviews with prominent musicians producers and critics spanning the globe Math
Rock will delight longtime fans while also serving as a primer for those who want to delve
deeper. It shows why and how an intellectually complex largely faceless and almost entirely
instrumental form of music has been capturing the attention of listeners for 50 years-and
counting.
