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The term "hypnagogic pop" was inspired by comments made by James Ferraro (pictured in 2012) and Spencer Clark. Journalist David Keenan, who was known as a reporter of noise, freak folk, and drone music scenes, coined "hypnagogic pop" in an August 2009 piece for The Wire.
- Mid to late 2000s, United States
Coined by David Keenan in the August 2009 issue of the Wire magazine, hypnagogic pop is a broad term covering a constellation of artists that, while having m...
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In an August 2009 piece for The Wire, Keenan coined "hypnagogic pop" to describe a group of musicians whose work resembled "pop music refracted through the memory of a memory". His article incited a slew of hate mail that derided hypnagogic pop as the "worst genre created by a journalist". [1] .
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May 22, 2012 · Writing in The Wire in 2009, David Keenan coined the term “hypnagogic pop” — “pop music refracted through the memory of a memory” — to describe artists like James Ferraro and Oneohtrix...
Aug 21, 2019 · In August 2009, a month after the original Carles post, the Wire’s David Keenan coined the term “hypnagogic pop” to describe a new wave of psychedelia growing out of the American noise...
"Coined by David Keenan in the August 2009 issue of the Wire magazine, hypnagogic pop is a broad term covering a constellation of artists that, while having many different "styles", have a similar music making approach: (sometimes extremely) low fidelity production (that is intentional in a different way than that of Lo-Fi Indie) filtering ...
