Bark Psychosis
British band from London whose 1994 album Hex inspired Simon Reynolds to coin the term "post-rock" in a Mojo review, describing their blend of electronic textures with rock instrumentation as something new—music that used rock tools for non-rock purposes, drawing from hip-hop, electronica, and ambient music. Reynolds meant it initially to describe British bands like Bark Psychosis, Stereolab, Disco Inferno, and Seefeel, but the definition sprawled to include Slint's already three-year-old Spiderland, Talk Talk's even older Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock, and the emerging Chicago and Montreal scenes. The album appeared on countless year-end best-of lists, establishing the critical vocabulary for the genre and proving that the approach wasn't limited to a single geography or sound.