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Slowcore, [a] also known as sadcore, is a subgenre of indie rock characterised by subdued tempos with typically minimalist instrumentation alongside solemn and melancholic lyrical performances. The history of slowcore began in the late-1980s with bands forming in reaction to the abrasive sounds of grunge.
- Red House Painters – Down Colorful Hill
- Further Reading
- Galaxie 500 – on Fire
- Low – I Could Live in Hope
- Codeine – Frigid Stars
- Low – Double Negative
- Giles Corey – Giles Corey
Red House Painters have, in some ways, begun to fall into the shadow of frontman Mark Kozelek as he continues to tear up the indie press as the sole member of his new project Sun Kil Moon. A press presence that has been both astoundingly good and astoundingly bad, but before Benji, and before he told War On Drugs to “suck his cock”, he fronted one ...
Cat Power – Moon Pix
Unlike many of her slowcore contemporaries, Cat Power(aka Charlyn Marie Marshall) did not write songs in service of her sonic world; her voice and her lyrics were the advertised event. Nothing about her music felt like it was bending to the stylings and musical quality of an in-vogue style. She was a singer/songwriter first, and the maudlin sounds of slowcore simply played into her sprawling epics as she manipulated surreal lyrics into arresting songs filled with feeling. Her career would be...
Songs: Ohia – Didn’t It Rain
“No matter how dark the storm gets overhead / They say someone's watching from the calm at the edge / What about us when we're down here in it?” Jason Molina, who sadly passed away in 2013, was a songwriter consumed with great truths and great oblivion. He sang songs that were rich and empathetic, but unflinching in their rendering of the American dream in it all it’s bare grimness. He sang about workers and the Midwest’s expansive loneliness in the form of burning empty planes. It was cowboy...
Nina Nastasia – Dogs
Nina Nastasia has begun to gain a more prominent place in the pantheon as a new generation are picking up the slowcore sound. Together, they have turned on the established canon and set about rewriting it beyond the token inclusion of Cat Power, unveiling the rich and significant contributions of women to what was often viewed as a boys-only club. Listening to Dogsthough, it’s hard to believe there was ever a time where we didn’t talk about this. The steely melodic minimalism of ‘Oblivion’ an...
Despite being the second ever slowcore band, Galaxie 500 aren’t much of one. Their repetitive, dreamy caterwauling bears very little resemblance to the work that followed them, but then slowcore is more a spirit than a genre, isn’t it? And On Fireis definitely the song of a spirit. A summer-baked ghost playing into an endlessly looping fractal of D...
Low are the slowcore band. They have defined its core audience and sound for almost two decades, releasing celebrated masterwork after celebrated masterwork. Of their twelve core albums, I’d say nine or possibly even ten could be considered slowcore essentials, and are at the very least highly celebrated within that community. I Could Live In Hopei...
Codeine’s debut album in 1990 was a fire setting alight, the sounds of post-rock and slowcore combusting simultaneously and casting light far into the distance. The sharp quiet-to-loud dynamics that would define Slint’s second album one year later, and Mogwai’s Young Teamalmost seven years later, were blatantly obvious on songs like ‘Pickup Song’ a...
By far the most recent release included in this guide, and our very own Album of the Year for 2018, Low’slatest work is definitely too close to see, but even considering the blinders of distance it is quite possibly their best work to date, and that can’t be understated. It's quite an idea for a band who were already seen as both genre visionaries ...
Alongside Giles Corey’s(aka Daniel Barrett’s) day-job of fronting Have A Nice Life, know for its disturbingly devoted cult audience and fatalistic tonality, he has found the time to become a purveyor of slowcore’s most frightening sounds. Being the subtle man that he is, you might just barely detect Corey’s spooky motivations as you begin the album...
Slowcore is generally characterized by downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements. With its roots in the late 1980s, it crystallized as a distinct genre in the early and mid ...
Apr 27, 2017 · Though there was no cohesive scene or geographic focus, slowcore does have a distinct aesthetic. We explain, and examine the originators, the popularizers, and contemporary artists mining its influence.
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Slowcore is a sub-genre of alternative rock music defined by a uniformly slow tempo, minimalist arrangements and bleak, often depressive lyrical themes. Slowcore was an outgrowth of the late-80s indie scene.
