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slowcore

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Etymology

From slow + -core.

Noun

slowcore (uncountable)

  1. (music) A subgenre of indie and alternative rock music, characterized by downbeat melodies, slower tempos and minimalist arrangements.
    Near-synonym: sadcore
    • 1996, Pat Blashill, Noise from the Underground: A Secret History of Alternative Rock, Touchstone:
      Slowcore” was just a silly label that never caught on, but Galaxie 500 represented one of about a dozen varieties of indie rock that existed at the time.
    • 2001, Everett True, Live Through this: American Rock in the Nineties, Virgin Books Limited, page 114:
      Slowcore is a sound best left to the sexless and anal. (No disrespect intended.) Someone worked out that music sounds great stripped right back and left to linger softly in the air.
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Spanish

Noun

slowcore m (plural slowcores)

  1. slowcore

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