Te

The Japanese band Té (often written Te') produced a powerful, muscular style of instrumental post-rock infused with hardcore punk elements, more akin to Mogwai than Tortoise. Full of crunchy, overdriven riffs, knotty, complex rhythms and time signatures, and lacking the long buildups and lulls of many post-rock acts, their relatively short songs immediately throw the listener into a mass of rapidly shifting dynamics, interspersed with gentler, soothing passages. Té drew attention to themselves with the twin gimmicks of using ludicrously long, intellectual titles to name all of...