The Age of Clank: Why Genres are Important

Written for Collapse Board

A few weeks ago, Chris Razor wrote about clank – a new genre title he’d coined, and I was grateful, because I’d been trying to think of a word for it for ages. I was getting fed up of saying “experimental electronica”, because that makes it sound like it sounds more like this and it doesn’t. Instead, it sounds like this.

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Chris describes clank as “ramping up the colour saturation of keys, guitars and percussion until your eyes are screaming”. It’s like a luminous pink sort of psychedelia. Retro-futuristic. The way music is supposed to sound in the 21st Century.

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