Uplifting Cinematic Post Rock Music

Post rock is rock instrumentation used for texture and dynamics rather than verses and choruses: electric guitars, drums, keyboards and electronics build in layers from a quiet figure to a full-band crescendo, usually without vocals. In this collection that means tracks in the Explosions in the Sky, This Will Destroy You and Sigur Ros vein, with strings, mallets and acoustic guitar widening the sound and a mood profile tagged inspiring and happy rather than brooding. The term matters because searches for cinematic rock music or instrumental rock music often mean exactly this.

Almost entirely: more than nine in ten tracks are instrumental, and several are explicitly instrumental mixes, such as Early In The Morning (Instrumental) by Apalog and Whiskey Dreams (Instrumental) by Sleevenotes. The rare exception is Snowdrift by Tiny Houses, which has vocals. For documentary and brand editors that means the collection can run under narration or an interview without lyrics fighting the speaker.

It builds gradually and stays warm, where trailer music hits hard and often dark. Most tracks here are tagged inspiring and happy, with dramatic and ambient in the minority, and the genre tags point to post rock first with only a few trailer and cinematic cues. Choose it when the scene needs a slow-earned crescendo, like a landscape reveal, an eLearning intro or a brand story, rather than a stinger. The themes attached to these tracks, documentary, landscape, automobiles, brands and eLearning, say as much.

Tracks average about three and a half minutes, and the format tends to spend the first stretch of that run time building. For a thirty second cut, work backwards from the crescendo rather than forwards from the intro, and for a longer sequence let a track like Bastian's The Wild or Travis Geer's Sky Sweeper run so the build lands with the footage. The payoff is what makes this triumphant instrumental music, so give it the room.

Dispute it and state that the track was licensed through Audiosocket. Content ID claims can occur on licensed music, but every track here is cleared for commercial use under the license purchased, including monetized YouTube video, film and client work, and each license is perpetual for that finished work. Keep your license record for the specific cut handy so the dispute is straightforward.