Top 10 Post-Punk, Art Punk, and Post-Hardcore
Iceage - Beyondless
Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
Shame - Songs of Praise
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
Sink Ya Teeth - Sink Ya Teeth
Shopping - The Official Body
These albums are all punk albums if you have a really limited vocabulary for music. Punk music has gotten really weird and all of these are great examples of ways to make it weirder, artsier, and more interesting, without losing the power that makes it a way of life in addition to a genre, at a high level.
Iceage - Beyondless
How they make it weird: violins, horns, and less and less punk touchstones as time goes on. Real attention paid to both songwriting and sound, which is decidedly un-punk.
Fucked Up - Dose Your Dreams
How they make it weird: Umm lots of ways. There are songs that are exclusively devoted to ambient pop and synth pop, and then there's a bunch of crazy arrangements. It's also 18 songs and 83 minutes and sounds like it took a village to make happen, which is very anti-hardcore.
Idles - Joy as an Act of Resistance
How they make it weird: Idles blows out their songs and makes them into rock anthems, but they remain punk in their ideologies and lyrics. This is a great punk record and appropriate for the times.
Shame - Songs of Praise
How they make it weird: By seemingly by accident making a great record? It just seems like they're a bunch of young wankers from London but they mostly write really catchy and well formed songs.
Tropical Fuck Storm - A Laughing Death in Meatspace
How they make it weird: Gareth's way of mashing words together and howling them at you is pretty unique. He alos
Parquet Courts - Wide Awake!
How they make it weird: they play on Ellen now, so…
Gouge Away - Burnt Sugar
How they make it weird: they're making hardcore more relatable sounding, but not that much, but people still like it. I really like it, and it's been a while since I liked hardcore!
No Age - Snares Like a Haircut
How they make it weird: Same way they've been making it weird every night, Pinky: ambient guitar washes
Sink Ya Teeth - Sink Ya Teeth
How they make it weird: Making it legit dance music
Shopping - The Official Body
How they make it weird: Making it legit dance music