trip-hop
noun
: electronic dance music usually based on a slow hip-hop beat and incorporating hypnotic synthesized and prerecorded sounds
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The Oslo musician’s debut album is a darkly glamorous blur of trip-hop and dance pop, with copious reverb and Auto-Tune as stand-ins for yearning, uneasiness, and irresolution.
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
The shoegaze, trip-hop, and atmospheric rock show created and hosted by Darren Revell is known for shaping Detroit's alternative soundscape in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to a news release from WDET.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 16 Nov. 2025
Sinkane Born in London but raised in Sudan and Ohio, Sinkane (whose real name is Ahmed Gallab) is a vocalist/multi-instrumentalist that blends prog rock, trip-hop, krautrock, prog rock, funk and jazz.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
So having that ’90s, trip-hop electronic influence sets the tone for that.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
From TikTok, there’s Addison Rae, who traffics in trip-hop and iPod nostalgia (Brooklyn Paramount; Oct. 1, and Terminal 5; Oct. 3).
—Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
The British Reinvasion didn't end there, either, as proven by trip-hop, drums-and-bass, jungle, or whatever term the British press coined this week for all those heady, space-age samba club beats.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Sonically, the album is adventurous, diving into sounds like trip-hop and electronic while also building classic rock ballads fit for stadiums and arenas.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
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Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
The shoegaze, trip-hop, and atmospheric rock show created and hosted by Darren Revell is known for shaping Detroit's alternative soundscape in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to a news release from WDET.
—Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 16 Nov. 2025
Sinkane Born in London but raised in Sudan and Ohio, Sinkane (whose real name is Ahmed Gallab) is a vocalist/multi-instrumentalist that blends prog rock, trip-hop, krautrock, prog rock, funk and jazz.
—Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
So having that ’90s, trip-hop electronic influence sets the tone for that.
—Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
From TikTok, there’s Addison Rae, who traffics in trip-hop and iPod nostalgia (Brooklyn Paramount; Oct. 1, and Terminal 5; Oct. 3).
—Shauna Lyon, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2025
The British Reinvasion didn't end there, either, as proven by trip-hop, drums-and-bass, jungle, or whatever term the British press coined this week for all those heady, space-age samba club beats.
—Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Sonically, the album is adventurous, diving into sounds like trip-hop and electronic while also building classic rock ballads fit for stadiums and arenas.
—Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
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