Adventurous new music genres?

[Opaque]

Also, on a more serious note, anything that fits strictly into some new micro-genre, which can be well defined, is often already too narrow to be that interesting. But, the genres have mostly all blended today, one can find everything in everything.

I found the latest PJ Harvey album to be interesting, "I Inside the old year dying," and, if you're more into techno, Djrum's latest ep/lp (e.g. the track Frekm pt.2), and also got into some livecoding stuff (e.g. c_robo) and generally electroacoustic music.

Similar to the PJ album, one might say there is a trend of more interesting mixing between acoustic and electronic music - some sort of singer/songwriter, folky, etc., but not in the old way of a band with a drum machine, where one can separate some synth sound or drum machine that sticks out. Instead, it's more textural, more integral to the music world it creates - e.g. Radiohead's A Moon Shaped Pool, Sufjan Stevens' Ascension, works by Bjork, Frank Ocean's Blond, Young Fathers' Heavy Heavy, etc.
Here, electronics are heavily featured, yet it's not just el. instruments playing the part of acoustic ones (e.g. synth bass or drum machines in the '80s), but the music is still grounded around human voice and traditional instruments, and the songs would lose too much if either aspect was removed.

[cryophonik]

So, I was chatting with this guy and he mentioned some micro genres I’d never heard of and it made me think of this thread. I thought some of them were fake labels he made up, but turns out they weren’t. The best one was “mallsoft” and apparently it’s been around for a few years while I’ve been growing old and out of touch.

Mallsoft (or mallwave) is a subgenre of vaporwave that evokes the atmosphere of shopping malls, featuring ambient, hazy music with heavy reverb, often sampling muzak, smooth jazz, or elevator music to create nostalgic, dreamy, and sometimes melancholic feelings about consumer culture, capitalism, and empty commercial spaces. It combines sounds of background music with simulated mall acoustics, exploring themes of hyper-capitalism, loneliness, and the "liminal spaces" of consumerism.

[Bunny_boy]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

[bermudagold]

Are there any NEW genres or subgenres that you're finding to be adventurous ... anything amazing?

If you take a look at the list of music genres, namely here,
you'll see:

but this is why genre barely even means anything any more...especially driven by the tendency in edm to do this,...its basically just become the intersection of marketing and dsp gimmicks...there really is no "genre" differentiation in the traditional sense...did the wavetable and fm growls and zipper rips of skrillex and his copycats make brostep a genre, or was it mainly dsp gimmicks?...did the granular synthesis shards of glass pitch showers and glitches of flume and his copycats make future bass a genre or mainly just dsp gimmicks?...does the additive synthesis metallic watery chirpy sounds make color bass and botanica genres?...or mainly just dsp gimmicks?

its like i move the snare from the 2 to the 4...now that makes it "goofy laffy taffy hardcore"...then my friend is like dude...that's so last year...now we put a tambourine on the 3 and raise the tempo by 27 bpm...the real ones only listen to "scooby scrappy fraggle bass"

But to Michael L interpretation of the OP request, I will offer up
https://hypem.com/popular
quantifying buzz through blogging traffic from webcrawling
and
https://app.radiooooo.com/
lets you pick a place on the map and see a curated view of what they think is standout right now

[Michael L]

I regularly use my two recommendations above.

I learned that any genre can feel adventurous when you listen to its history, and how it developed into a genre.

For example, I just became a fan of “ABC Jazz” a non commercial Australian station. To me, the best radio station I’ve ever heard. Their playlist regularly moves across a century of music.

On that Radio app, I discovered the station, “Mountain Nature Music.” Not a genre but a cool subculture!!

On Bandcamp, an outstanding label is “International Anthem” from Chicago. Just Wow. A collective of top tier musicians who hybridise world genres.

But, I personally think the most radical and deep genre now is “Afrofuturism” which includes all art forms, welcomes all and is actively developing!!!!

Recommend this top quality 4-part series:

[Bombadil]

Death Polka.

[Bunny_boy]

Death Polka.

That is so last year

[vurt]

progressive punk rock.

imagine elp, doing oi punk, epic yob!

[seangm]

del

[cryophonik]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

I was thinking it sounded like triphop drenched in reverb (aka triphop).

IOW, the future of genres is to just rename a well-established genre with a stupider name. So, from now on classic rock will be known as “future glam” and death polka will be “country and eastern”.

[vurt]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

I was thinking it sounded like triphop drenched in reverb (aka triphop).

IOW, the future of genres is to just rename a well-established genre with a stupider name. So, from now on classic rock will be known as “future glam” and death polka will be “country and eastern”.

neoglam.

[cryophonik]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

I was thinking it sounded like triphop drenched in reverb (aka triphop).

IOW, the future of genres is to just rename a well-established genre with a stupider name. So, from now on classic rock will be known as “future glam” and death polka will be “country and eastern”.

neoglam.

I didn’t mean you had to rename them within an hour of being renamed. Geez, vurt

[Bunny_boy]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

I was thinking it sounded like triphop drenched in reverb (aka triphop).

IOW, the future of genres is to just rename a well-established genre with a stupider name. So, from now on classic rock will be known as “future glam” and death polka will be “country and eastern”.

neoglam.

I didn’t mean you had to rename them within an hour of being renamed. Geez, vurt

Nu Glam

[Bunny_boy]

progressive punk rock.

imagine elp, doing oi punk, epic yob!

That's the way I described Slint when I first heard them. Not Oi! obvs, but definitely punk with a proggy feel (this is before I'd heard terms like post-hardcore, post-rock, math-rock, etc)

[Bunny_boy]

^^^^ That should fit with hypnogogic pop and hauntology

I was thinking it sounded like triphop drenched in reverb (aka triphop).

Oh, I hadn't listened to it when I posted that. You don't actually need the music for something so conceptual. My idea when I become a conceptual artist is to only have the bit on the wall explaining the thinking behind it and what it represents - the art itself is secondary.
Not that I'm comparing that YouTube post to an art installation! I've just listened to it and it's sounds like what it is.

Apols to anyone if this reads like I'm being a bit of a teacher - I still haven't finished my coffee:
Anyways both hypnogogic pop and hauntology have Wikipedia entries so must be real (...) but are terms used to describe postmodernist takes on music creates to evoke certain past feelings and memories. They're from The Wire, of course it's a bit highfalutin. Leyland Kirby, of all people, did that Caretaker record made up of samples 78s to evoke an interwar / postwar music hall atmosphere (... for his grandmother?).
So doing a record that evokes your childhood being a mallrat fits into these really well.