Bedroom pop

Bedroom pop is an often poorly-defined genre that emerged in the 2000s as a result of the home recording boom.

Bedroom pop is generally associated with many of the artefacts of its predecessor, the lo-fi movement of the 80s and 90s - audible noise (tape hiss or otherwise), cultivated amateurism, use of outdated equipment, etc. As artists have worked within and around the genre over the last twenty years, a handful of key aesthetic characteristics have become synonymous with it:

• Heavily chorused-out or otherwise modulate guitars
• Simple beats, whether from a very deadened drum kit or drum machine
• Soft, or at least generally wistful, vocal style and lyrical content, whether rapped or sung
• Use of electric piano-esque or otherwise gentle synthesizer sounds
• Youth

Artists

• NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND
• mui zyu

Releases

• BIG AND KIND (NONBINARY GIRLFRIEND)
• Rotten Bun for an Eggless Century (mui zyu)
• a wonderful thing vomits (mui zyu)
• nothing or something to die for (mui zyu)

Something else to check out: Synth pop