How to Use trip-hop in a Sentence

trip-hop

noun

• So having that ’90s, trip-hop electronic influence sets the tone for that.
  — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
• Embracing jazz mysticism and trip-hop rhythms, the singer-songwriter takes some worthwhile risks on her arresting new album.
  — Linnie Greene, Pitchfork, 29 July 2026
• Chalk it up in part to the Gen-Z trip-hop revival, and in part to the band’s willingness to put their money where their mouth is politically.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
• 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
• Updating her sound with trip-hop beats and techno influences, the album became one of Madonna’s most successful, with multiplatinum sales and three Grammy wins.
  — Greg Evans, Deadline, 7 Aug. 2026
• Afterwards, Canadian downtempo duo Freak Heat Waves pulled a projector screen down from the ceiling and got to work swirling house, psych-rock, dub, and trip-hop into an entrancing, yet slightly somber zone.
  — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
• 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.
  — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
• Orton, who began as a folk/trip-hop musician 30 years ago on debut record Trailer Park, has held onto the melancholia of her early music, but largely eschewed the electronic dance beats that defined her work.
  — David Harris, SPIN, 29 June 2026
• 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
• On her 2023 debut, the Montreal producer wiggled through new age, trip-hop, and ambient meditations delivered in an ASMR whisper.
  — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
• Blending ambient textures, trip-hop, techno and drum-and-bass into a new sonic language for mainstream pop, Orbit co-created an album that revitalized Madonna’s career while earning multiple Grammys and influencing a generation of producers.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 7 Aug. 2026
• As a member of Massive Attack, Tricky emerged in the early 1990s as a central figure in Bristol’s trip-hop scene, later cementing his solo reputation as one of the genre’s most unconventional and boundary-pushing architects.
  — Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 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