Henkjan de Krijger

@henq · 11 Dec 2019

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Trapmusic

#Trapmusic
Take trap for example. It’s still going strong, and artists like Migos, Young Thug, and Lil Baby have become full-blown superstars. Trap is now woven into the fabric of pop music—traces of it are sprinkled in chart-topping hits across all genres, even country music. And right now in Atlanta, while trap still reigns supreme, there is already a new wave of lyrically driven rappers like J.I.D, EarthGang, Grip, and Kenny Mason setting the tone for a wave of new sounds outside the bounds of any definition of trap music.

#Bedroompop
At Pigeons & Planes, the last time we tried to label a scene or movement with a name was bedroom pop. It was commonly used to describe the DIY style of emerging acts like Clairo, Cuco, Girl In Red, Gus Dapperton, Rex Orange County, and plenty of others. We talked to over a dozen artists lumped into this new group, and every one of them rejected the term.

#Curation
Growing in popularity alongside Bedroom Pop on Spotify is a batch of new playlists with names more open to interpretation: POLLEN, Lorem, Anti Pop, Front Left. From the titles and descriptions, it’s unclear exactly what kind of music these playlists are home to, until you listen. Lorem, for example, features Clairo and Rex Orange County, but as of right now the ever-evolving collection of songs also features The 1975, Childish Gambino, SZA, A$AP Rocky, Khalid, and Post Malone.

#gecs
In September of 2019, the New York Times wrote of gecs, “Historically, musicians who specialize in unlikely collisions—any iteration of rap-rock, or country-rap, for example—are often maligned, as if their alchemy were the stuff of confusion, not intention. But the warp-speed juxtapositions that 100 gecs deploys move their music past hybrid into something genuinely recombinant.”