If some average Joe casually asked what genre of music you’re interested in and the response you gave was “Oh yeah, I’m big into post-rock”, you'd be forgiven for being met with a quizzical look. The sort of look normally reserved for someone who has built a scale model of the Eiffel Tower from Creme Eggs. Say you’re favourite album is ‘Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven’ and they might think you're taking the piss out of them. Post-rock is not a type of music that really troubles the charts or gets playlisted on prime time radio, because it doesn't conform to the standard three-minute radio-friendly blueprint.

Post-rock is the tag usually applied to bands that play instrumental rock music with a style that puts emphasis on the rhythm, tone, and texture of the guitar parts. This is not simply music without vocals adhering to standard verse-chorus-verse structure.

Like most genres of music e.g. 'Trip Hop' or 'Chillwave', a journalist -Simon Reynolds, Mojo- coined its label and it stuck much to the chagrin of some bands playing this type of music.

Ask Mogwai how they feel about being a leading post-rock band and it could descend into a Michael Parkinson-Meg Ryan type standoff. For some bands, it can be a case of "the first rule of Post-rock is don’t talk about post-rock". Others though, have embraced it and see it has a badge of honour.