Art Rock
Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have experimental or avant-garde influences and emphasizes novel sonic texture.
The term art rock was initially used for 70s krautrock bands and progressive rock artists like Can, Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Talking Heads. In the nineties the term was also used for more noise rock and experimental rock associated acts like Sonic Youth, Public Image Ltd., Deerhoof, Liars who also have a strong focus on avant garde music, experimental music and art in general as well as rock music, punk rock and no wave. This may lead to some confusion. The latter group of bands are sometimes also called art punk or avant-punk.
Art rock, regarded from the point of view of 70's related artists, is an intrinsically album-based form, which takes advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations. Art rock is in the rock idiom that appeals more intellectually or musically; that is, not formulated along pop lines for mass consumption. It is usually somewhat experimental, using a long structure with several themes like classical music or a suite of individual songs. Art Rock almost always features keyboards more than guitar. As well, art rock is not so much for dancing as for listening and it often tells a story or there is a philosophical theme to the lyrics.
The concept of "art rock" has also sometimes been used to refer to the "progressive rock" bands which became popular in the 1970s. Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. Progressive rock eventually stuck as a label for a specific genre of rock music, while Art Rock was used to refer to a wider, more subjective and harder-to-categorize collection of bands.
Art Rock is a form of rock music that blended elements of rock and European classical music. It included bands such as King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Pink Floyd. The bands are more generally playing suites of music, not songs, borrowing riffs from Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner instead of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, and using language closer to William Blake or T. S. Eliot than to Carl Perkins or Willie Dixon.
The term art rock was initially used for 70s krautrock bands and progressive rock artists like Can, Soft Machine, Brian Eno, Talking Heads. In the nineties the term was also used for more noise rock and experimental rock associated acts like Sonic Youth, Public Image Ltd., Deerhoof, Liars who also have a strong focus on avant garde music, experimental music and art in general as well as rock music, punk rock and no wave. This may lead to some confusion. The latter group of bands are sometimes also called art punk or avant-punk.
Art rock, regarded from the point of view of 70's related artists, is an intrinsically album-based form, which takes advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations. Art rock is in the rock idiom that appeals more intellectually or musically; that is, not formulated along pop lines for mass consumption. It is usually somewhat experimental, using a long structure with several themes like classical music or a suite of individual songs. Art Rock almost always features keyboards more than guitar. As well, art rock is not so much for dancing as for listening and it often tells a story or there is a philosophical theme to the lyrics.
The concept of "art rock" has also sometimes been used to refer to the "progressive rock" bands which became popular in the 1970s. Progressive rock and art rock are two almost interchangeable terms describing a mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility. Progressive rock eventually stuck as a label for a specific genre of rock music, while Art Rock was used to refer to a wider, more subjective and harder-to-categorize collection of bands.
Art Rock is a form of rock music that blended elements of rock and European classical music. It included bands such as King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and Pink Floyd. The bands are more generally playing suites of music, not songs, borrowing riffs from Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner instead of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley, and using language closer to William Blake or T. S. Eliot than to Carl Perkins or Willie Dixon.
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