Think Creep (Acoustic), The Dog Days are Over, A Sign of The Times. It’s all something deep and special that I can’t exactly place, but it hits you like a god damn train sometimes.
Crooning is likely the technique you are hearing. Its a singing technique that emulates the singer being very emotionally close, right up on the mic.
I think this is the term.
I mean, there’s obviously subgenres, and it’s not like it’s Dean Martin and the Rat Pack crooning anymore.
But there’s a lot of great crooning bands that are still going strong today.
One adjacent term is “frisson”: when it’s so sublimely awesome it gives you chills.
I think it might be a kind of dramatized emotional power ballad style. I used to listen to such things a lot, they have an urge, a longing in them that breaks free, reaching a breaking point after which the way leads into an unknown. In a movie they might accompany a scene where the protagonist is at a decisive turning point in the story, almost like soundtracks to life if it were a movie. Some of the songs id categorize this way are:
Magda - Wieso
Pixies - Where is my mind?
Fontaines D.C. - Bug
Keane - somewhere only we know
Adele - Skyfall
Stones - Gimme shelter
30 Seconds to Mars - Kings and Queens
Bowie - Heroes
Europe - Final countdown
Might be sth entirely different tho an totally wrong im rly tired rn but ur post grabbed me. 👍
Ceaseless ascension? Songs that keep building up to a major crescendo
Do they get to the crescendo? I don’t know much about music but trying my hand and took some course and there was a comment ‘listen to this one it sounds like it’s building the entire song’ but the song never gets there. Bit melancholy/sad type tones chord progression but seems like it’s epic in its sound. Course the epic part may be due to the composer knowing his stuff but the idea was a chord progression that kept building to nowhere.
So curious of that sounds about right for your description. I forget the name but when the instructor put a link I was like oh yeah that song, like lots of movies or probably commercials used similar for the emotion. À
Just be cool to know another name if that sounds right is all. Enjoy finding more examples to compare and notice what makes the sound (even if I can’t reproduce it)
I feel like that describes half of Elton john’s music
Symphonic Indie-Pop?
Idk but if you have a Playlist, please share it.
I call those tunes “certified fresh” in our house. I get frisson / goosebumps all the time from good music and I always call out “certified fresh” to the gang when I do and show off my arm (this is in the car a lot when I have the kids with me).
I can’t see much in common between those tunes except that they’re bangers and would almost certainly cause some goosebumps for me.
I’d call those pop ballads.
If you want suggestions, check out Moddi, Farao, Lindy-Fay Hella, Madrugada, Finnegan Tui, Brandon Perry
i think what you mean is just called “beautiful” by some people.
I love Creep, i am repulsed by Dog days (particularly the “The Do-o-og” part), and i don’t know the 3rd one, so to me they’re not similar.
Singer Songwriter?
How bout like, Xiu Xiu? Apistat Commander, Fabulous Muscles, The Fox and the Rabbit, Clowne Towne?
Country and/or western?
Both kinds of music?
