Draft:Cloud rock
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Cloud rock (or cloud-rock) is a style of alternative rock that emerged in the 2020s, characterized by the use of dreamy electronic and shoegaze inspired production on digital audio workstations, along with influences from contemporary internet music genres such as hyperpop, cloud rap and internet rap. The term was originally coined by blogger Eli Enis and popularized on the platform Nina Protocol.
| Cloud rock | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Cloud-rock |
| Stylistic origins | |
| Cultural origins | 2020s, United States |
| Other topics | |
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Etymology
Post-Pandemic Alt Rock[1]
Characteristics
Enis stated, "Jim Legxacy, Bassvictim, an evilgiane beat, and a Duster song have very little in common musically, but they all share the suggestive, smudgy, cataracts filter of the cloud-rockers who dot the same mix".[2] According to Enis, cloud rock is descendant from cloud rap, though artists such as Yung Lean and smokedope2016 don't necessarily create "dreamy music".[2]
Enis defined cloud rock as being opposed to a similar style like dream pop, stating, "As opposed to the pinkish coloration of Beach House and Cocteau Twins' dream-pop, cloud-rock's tonal hues are muddy and gray – the murky iridescence of contaminated rainwater."[2]
He later added, "Cloud-rock is a breed of alt-rock whose foundations are split equally between "internet music" – a catch-all I'm using to encompass the borderless territories where post-Soundcloud rap, post-Oneohtrix Point Never electronica, and post-P.C. Music avant-pop have assimilated in recent years – and "indie-rock."