art rock

American  

noun

1. a type of rock music, often with poetic lyrics, characterized by sophisticated harmonic, dynamic, and technical complexity based on forms derived from classical music and requiring performers of considerable training and skill.

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Example Sentences

Cambridge art rock collective Black Country, New Road is currently touring the world just two years after releasing an acclaimed debut album during lockdown.

From BBC • May 15, 2023

We’d call it art rock, influenced by the Talking Heads, Kraftwerk, Sun Ra.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022

In making their performance art rock, the four members of Pylon drew on what they had learned in art school about the ways that tensions between materials, mediums, and expectations could animate art.

From Slate • Jul. 8, 2020

The jaggy, pent-up energy in Deerhoof’s caustic art rock owes a lot to Dieterich’s guitar playing.

From New York Times • Oct. 24, 2019

Their music remains a perplexing brew of art rock and mellow schmaltz — as if Peter Gabriel’s and Phil Collins’s solo careers had collided into a single act.

From Washington Post • Jun. 10, 2018