“A Minor Forest’s 1996 debut, Flemish Altruism, and other studio effort, 1998’s Inindependence, were reissued for Record Store Day. Groping for a new vocabulary from the fragments laying around after post-rock’s early-90s Big Bang, the San Francisco band came close to inventing post-post-rock, where the subgenre’s self-seriousness was wrestled with until it laughed, gasped, and collapsed.”