post rock

There is more than one artist with the name Embrace, the first two of whom are significant:
1) a five-piece indie band from Leeds, England, who have enjoyed significant success in UK, including three number one albums and six Top 10 singles
2) a Post-Hardcore/Post-Punk band from Washington D.C. that had a galvanizing influence on the Washington, D.C. punk scene of the 80's and featured Ian MacKaye (who subsequently formed Fugazi)
3) a Dutch Trance duo
4) a Canadian Gothic Metal band

Read more about Embrace on Last.fm.

There are several artists that go by the name Physics: 1. A Swedish deep house duo consisting of Mikael Surdi and Torbj

War Horse Descent is an experimental post-rock band started by John Medland and Alex Ryan; using their laptops to provide many backing tracks, whilst they played guitar, bass, and stylophone over them. As they wrote more songs the need for more members grew, so they recruited Dan Wilson to play drums, and stylophone.
Their EP "The Sound of Two People Failing At Once" is currently being recorded.

Picastro began in Toronto in 1997 or 1998 as a acoustic guitar and cello duo. Since then there have been a long list of contributors, some of whom still appear on recordings. Kurt Newman (guitar), Stephanie Vittas (cello), catl (guitar), Evan Clarke (drums, guitar), Zak Hanna (guitar), Rachel McBride (cello), Owen Pallett (viola, organ, piano), Nick Storring (cello), Brandon Valdivia (drums), Ant Saunders (viola, guitar).