Your way in
Lo-fi / slacker rock 1992
Recorded on a four-track cassette with the hiss left in deliberately. Indifference as a method.
- Heaviness
- 3
- Speed
- 5
- Melody
- 8
- Where from
- USA
- Tempo
- 90-140 bpm
- Song length
- 1.5-3 min
- Written about
- Boredom, Ambivalence, Domestic detail, Songwriting itself, obliquely
- Vocals
- Sung
Why this one
| You said | Lo-fi / slacker rock | Match | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Singing When someone is singing, what should come out? | clean | 100% | ×3 |
| Light How much weight do you want behind it? | 3 out of 10 | 90% | ×2 |
| A steady walk What pace? | 5 out of 10 | 100% | ×2 |
| The nineties Does it matter when it was made? | 1992 | 100% | ×1 |
| Something to hold on to Do you want a tune you could hum afterwards? | 8 out of 10 | 80% | ×1 |
| Weighted mean | 96% | ||
Ranked over all 150 genres in the encyclopedia, on the 5 answers you gave, weighted vocals 3, heaviness 2, pace 2, era 1, melody 1 out of 9. Lo-fi / slacker rock leads the next by 1 point. Where two genres score the same the broader one wins, because a genre with subgenres under it is somewhere to carry on from and a leaf is a full stop.
Five records, in this order
- 1Start one step outside
Pavement, Slanted and Enchanted 1992
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted. Studied indifference, excellent songs.
- 2The one to put on first
Guided by Voices, Bee Thousand 1994
Guided by Voices - Bee Thousand. Twenty songs, most under two minutes.
- 3Then
- 4Then
- 5Then
The first is the entry point for Indie rock, one step outside, so the second record has something to be heard against. After it come Lo-fi / slacker rock's essential records in the order the encyclopedia lists them. Every one of these has a page here with links out to somewhere it can be played.
If that is not it
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Post-punk revival 95%
The same basslines and the same chill, revived every ten years with contemporary production.
6 steps from Lo-fi / slacker rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Post-punk revival -
Emo pop 93%
The emo formula with a radio chorus and polished production. The version that reached MTV and the shopping mall.
8 steps from Lo-fi / slacker rock, meeting it only at Rock.
The way into Emo pop
Not simply the second and third of the ranking: those are almost always near neighbours of the first, which is three names for one suggestion. An alternate has to sit at least 4 steps through the tree from the headline and from the other alternate, which is the same floor the "sounds like this, but isn't" panel uses.
What your answers ruled out
- Singing put 54 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Black metal, Death metal, Post-hardcore. Worth 3 of 9.
- Light put 12 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Death metal, Brutal death metal, Sludge metal. Worth 2 of 9.
- The nineties put 23 genres at the bottom of that one question, among them Blues rock, Progressive rock, Rock and roll. Worth 1 of 9.
Counted as genres scoring 20% or less on that answer alone. A recommendation that only shows what it chose is hiding half of what it did.