sadcore
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English
Etymology
Noun
sadcore (uncountable)
- (music, uncommon) A form of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slow tempos.
- Near-synonym: slowcore
- 1996 September 21, Billboard:
- As proof of this, Staub points to the wide variety of press coverage the band received, from spotlights in the usual music media to reports in People, Time, NPR (which identified the band as one of the leaders of the "sadcore" movement), and even Martha Stewart Living […]
- 1999, Seán Body, Wish the world away: Mark Eitzel and American Music Club:
- Also, The Red House Painters were the first in a wave of bands that followed in AMC's wake, making slow, bleak music that the press would later dub "sadcore" […]
- 2000, Dave Thompson, Alternative rock:
- Despite past disappointments, the undisputed king (and queen) of sadcore return […]
- 2000, Joel Lane, From Blue to Black:
- Even in 'serious' rock journalism, every sound was a kind of core: hardcore, slowcore, speedcore, sadcore. What next?
- 2004, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors:
- […] one of the grayest sadcore bands on God's bleak earth, a band that for encores — however rarely it earned them — would slog through Irish jigs […]