slowcore

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English

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Etymology

From slow +‎ -core.

Noun

slowcore (uncountable)

  1. (music) A subgenre of indie and alternative rock music, characterized by downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements.
    Near-synonym: sadcore
    • 1996, Pat Blashill, Noise from the Underground: A Secret History of Alternative Rock‎, Touchstone:
      “Slowcore” was just a silly label that never caught on, but Galaxie 500 represented one of about a dozen varieties of indie rock that existed at the time.
    • 2001, Everett True, Live Through this: American Rock in the Nineties, Virgin Books Limited, page 114:
      Slowcore is a sound best left to the sexless and anal. (No disrespect intended.) Someone worked out that music sounds great stripped right back and left to linger softly in the air.

Spanish

Noun

slowcore m (plural slowcores)

  1. slowcore
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