: rock music that incorporates elements of traditional or classical music
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The English band spent much of the past two years making their third and best album, Secret Love, which brings their uniquely beguiling mix of post-punk and art-rock styles to a new creative peak.
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Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
There’s even a Radiohead art-rock mantra that seems to come directly from Kelson’s mad-genius mind.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
The band performed alongside a loose crew of like-minded acts like Black Country, New Road, Shame and Squid who were experimenting with noise, free jazz and textured art-rock, centered around the Brixton venue the Windmill.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But on his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, the rising art-rock star reveals his hand as a singer-songwriter extraordinaire, toning things down and slipping into a drowsy falsetto.
—Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
In the five years since, Geese has emerged as a new beacon of post-punk, mutating into an ambitious art-rock experiment across three albums.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Long available only as a bootleg, the cult art-rock band’s last studio recording gets a new digital and vinyl release from Errol’s Hot Wax
Life Without Buildings, the beloved Glaswegian art-rock band, broke up in 2002 after the release of their sole, classic album, Any Other City.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2025
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Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 22 Jan. 2026
There’s even a Radiohead art-rock mantra that seems to come directly from Kelson’s mad-genius mind.
—David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 13 Jan. 2026
The band performed alongside a loose crew of like-minded acts like Black Country, New Road, Shame and Squid who were experimenting with noise, free jazz and textured art-rock, centered around the Brixton venue the Windmill.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Jan. 2026
But on his debut solo album, Heavy Metal, the rising art-rock star reveals his hand as a singer-songwriter extraordinaire, toning things down and slipping into a drowsy falsetto.
—Jason Lamphier, Entertainment Weekly, 9 Dec. 2025
In the five years since, Geese has emerged as a new beacon of post-punk, mutating into an ambitious art-rock experiment across three albums.
—Jillian Steinhauer, New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2025
Long available only as a bootleg, the cult art-rock band’s last studio recording gets a new digital and vinyl release from Errol’s Hot Wax
Life Without Buildings, the beloved Glaswegian art-rock band, broke up in 2002 after the release of their sole, classic album, Any Other City.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 9 Oct. 2025
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“Art-rock.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/art-rock. Accessed 26 Jan. 2026.
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