Noise pop

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Noise pop is a term used to loosely describe a number of alternative rock bands that fuse punk rock's attitude and anger with the atonal noise, feedback, and free song structures of noise music, presented in a decidedly pop context. Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain, released in 1985, is often considered to be the album that defined and launched the genre.

Style

Noise pop as a genre typically contains standard pop instrumentation; electric guitar, bass guitar, drumset, and occasionally keyboards; with a number of effects and methods often present in the songs, including fuzz, feedback, drones, and minimalism, which are usually not present in more mainstream forms of music. Song structures generally follow standard pop/rock formulae, and song lengths usually tend to be around 3 minutes; noise pop is therefore viewed as being more accessible than its cousin, noise rock. Despite the genre's arguable evolution from punk rock, where lyrics are typically spoken or shouted, most noise pop bands feature sung, melodic vocals, and harmonies are not altogether uncommon in the genre. Many artists enveloped in the shoegaze genre played noise pop as well and fused the two.

Influences

The Velvet Underground were a major influence on the genre, with their experiments with feedback and distortion on their early albums. Early noise pop bands Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr. and Eric's Trip combined rock/pop song structure with heavy distortion. The band most widely credited as being the first noise pop band was The Jesus and Mary Chain.

Notable bands

References

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External links

• Noise Pop on AMG
• IHRTN.com - Illustrated Encyclopedia of Audio Terrorism

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