If you’ve read any 2019 album-of-the-year lists, then you’re familiar with black midi-the young South London band whose music exploded the minds of music critics and nerds alike. Ranging from fairly accessible to more difficult to swallow, here are 10 experimental rock bands who continue to push the envelope. Instead of tooting the tired horn of “guitar music is dead,” 2020 seems like as good a time as any to celebrate some of today’s most perplexing guitar bands. More challenging bands like black midi, Empath and The Spirit of the Beehive have all received recent critical praise and fierce devotion from blogs and message boards. Despite having to go against the grain, experimental rock bands still find ways to amass sturdy followings. Essentially, it’s a weird time to be a rock band, so whether you’re a more traditional “rawk” group or a DIY noise outfit, it’s easy to feel ignored by mainstream culture. Billboard recently revealed the 10 highest-charting rock songs of the decade, which included a wash of Imagine Dragons, Twenty One Pilots and other not-so-rock guitar acts. It allows for total, nonjudgmental expression, and though it largely exists on the fringes and in relatively small, devoted cult followings, its existence is vital to the artists and the people who consume it. It’s a safe space that protects artists from the preconceptions or typical parameters of mainstream art.
Experimental music is often used as a vessel for transcendence or catharsis.
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