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			{{short description\|Experimental rock music mixed with noise}}
	'''Noise rock''' is a musical genre that developed in the ] as an experimental outgrowth of ]. Fusing punk rock's attitude with the ] noise and unconventional song structures of early ] and ], the noise rock introduced a new kind of avant-garde music to the ] landscape. The style is sometimes referred to as "noisecore", though this term can also refer to a variety of fast, distorted ] music.
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			'''Noise rock''' (sometimes called '''noise punk'''){{sfn\|Felix\|2010\|p=172}} is a ]-oriented style of ]<ref name="Osborn2011">{{cite journal\|last1=Osborn\|first1=Brad\|title=Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*\|journal=]\|url=http://www.mtosmt.org/issues/mto.11.17.3/mto.11.17.3.osborn.html\|date=October 2011\|volume=17\|issue=3\|doi=10.30535/mto.17.3.4 \|doi-access=free\|hdl=1808/12360\|hdl-access=free}}</ref> that spun off from ] in the 1980s.<ref name="AllMusicNR">{{cite web\|title=Noise Rock\|url=http://www.allmusic.com/style/noise-rock-ma0000004455\|website=]\|access-date=March 11, 2017}}</ref><ref name="Treblezine"/> Drawing on movements such as ], ], and ],{{sfn\|Blush\|2016\|p=266}} artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of ]s and, less frequently, ]ation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/>

			Some groups are tied to song structures, such as ]. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among ] audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed.<ref name="AllMusicNR"/> Other early noise rock bands were ], ] and ].

			== Characteristics ==
			Noise rock fuses ] to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of ], improvisation, and ]. One notable band of this genre is Sonic Youth, who took inspiration from the ] composers ] and ].<ref>, ''Kalvos-Damien'' website. (Accessed October 20, 2009).</ref> Sonic Youth's ] has stated: "Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."<ref name="Sisario20042">{{cite web\|url=http://www.spin.com/2004/12/art-noise/\|title=The Art of Noise\|date=December 2, 2004\|website=]\|last1=Sisario\|first1=Ben}}</ref>

	==History==		==History==
			] have been credited with creating the first noise rock album in 1968.]]
			{{See also\|Experimental rock\|Punk rock\|3=Grunge}}

			===Forerunners===
	Some influences on the early breed of noise rockers were the stark ] of ], the bluster of the ], the ] movement of the late ], and ]'s Metal Machine Music. ], for instance, propelled the no wave ] into the new direction of noise rock.

			While the music had been around for some time, the term "noise rock" was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach.<ref name="Treblezine">{{cite web\|last1=Terich\|first1=Jeff\|title=Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock\|url=http://www.treblezine.com/hold-on-to-your-genre-noise-rock/\|website=Treblezine\|date=February 25, 2013 \|access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref> An archetypal album is ]'s '']'' (1968).<ref name=gross>{{cite journal\|last1=Gross\|first1=Joe\|title=Essentials: Noise Rock \|journal=]\|date=April 2007\|volume=23\|issue=4\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AuTSBJnG06YC&pg=PA94}}</ref><ref name="Treblezine"/> ''Treblezine''{{'}}s Joe Gross credits ''White Light/White Heat'' as the "cult classic" with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, "perhaps it's an obvious starting point, but it's also the starting point. Period."<ref name="Treblezine" /> Influenced by the ] of ] Reed stated that:
	Later, the sound became associated with Japanese artists such as ] and ], who incorporated the influences from Japanese noise music even further, and occasionally adopted completely chaotic structures creating extremely short, fast "songs" which were marked by blasts of rhythm, screaming, and extremely overloaded guitars.

			{{quote\|"I thought, you put ] with ] or ] lyrics against some rock with these kind of harmonic going in … wouldn't you have something?"<ref>{{Cite magazine \|last=Shteamer \|first=Hank \|date=2019-05-22 \|title=Flashback: Ornette Coleman Sums Up Solitude on 'Lonely Woman' \|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ornette-coleman-lonely-woman-lou-reed-837918/ \|access-date=2023-04-20 \|magazine=Rolling Stone \|language=en-US}}</ref>}}
	At around the same time, ] bands such as ] were developing a similar style which is also often referred to as "noisecore". In many cases, although the backgrounds of the bands are different, the "art" influenced noise rock bands and "heavy metal" grindcore bands both have similarly high levels of technical playing ability and have often collaborated on new music.

			] quickly adopted the noise elements developed by the Velvet Underground in '']'' and '']'' by creating long improvisational songs based on feedback and the use of heavy distortion. The band moved toward an increasingly noise based sound in the 1970s, influencing a great number of artists in the ] and ] scene.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://medium.com/@matthewpenner21/les-rallizes-d%C3%A9nud%C3%A9s-japans-noise-pioneers-25f0ddab3644 \| title=Les Rallizes Dénudés: Japan's Noise Pioneers \| date=January 21, 2020 }}</ref>{{self-published source\|date=July 2023}}
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			The 1960s groups ], ], and ] are other bands that were later assessed by some music critics and journalists to be early pioneers of what would become noise rock.<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/the-parable-of-arable-land-mw0000274607 \| title=The Red Crayola, the Red Krayola - the Parable of Arable Land Album Reviews, Songs & More \| AllMusic \| website=] }}{{cite web \| url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/orgasm-mw0000619006 \| title=Cromagnon - Orgasm Album Reviews, Songs & More \| AllMusic \| website=] }}{{Cite web \|title=No Record - Record Collector Magazine \|url=https://recordcollectormag.com/reviews/album/record \|access-date=May 4, 2023 \|language=en}}{{cite web \|date=February 10, 2017 \|title=The Nihilist Spasm Band invented noise rock in 1965 \|url=https://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_nihilist_spasm_band_invented_noise_rock_in_1965}}</ref>
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			] in a publicity photo issued by SST to promote their fourth album, '']'' (1987). Left to right: Shelley, Ranaldo, Moore, Gordon.]]
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			Guitarist ] of noise rock band ] stated in 1984 in an article that "good noise is like orgasm". He commented: "Anybody can play notes. There's no trick. What is a trick and a good one is to make a guitar do things that don't sound like a guitar at all. The point here is stretching the boundaries."<ref name=matter>Albini, Steve. (September - October 1984). "Tired of Ugy Fat ?". ''Matter '' (10).</ref> He said that ] of ] "made squealy death noise feedback" on "]'s monstruous songs".<ref name=matter /> Albini also mentioned ] of ], saying: "'']'' is notable for a couple of things: only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs".<ref name=matter /> Albini also said that ] of ] had this "ability to make an excruciating noise come out of his guitar".<ref name=matter />
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			In an article about noise rock, '']'' wrote that a US compilation album titled '']'', released in 1978 on an independent label called "Antilles", was important as it documented the ] ] scene. It featured several songs of ]'s first band ] along with material of other groups ], ] and ].<ref name=gross />

			===Music===
			In the 1980s, Big Black, Sonic Youth and ] were the leading figures of noise rock.<ref name="quietus" /> Sonic Youth were the first noise rock band to get signed by a major label in 1990.<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://pitchfork.com/features/interview/6199-sonic-youth/\|title=Sonic Youth\|publisher=Pitchfork\|first=Julianne \|last=Escobedo Shepherd \|date=November 19, 2005\|access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref> ] emerged in the early 1990s as a "leading noise rock band" in the American scene with their "willfully abrasive and atonal" style.<ref name=all>{{cite web\|url=http://allmusic.com/artist/the-jesus-lizard-p13331\|title=The Jesus Lizard – AllMusic\|author=Erlewine, Stephen Thomas\|website=]\|access-date=September 5, 2012}}</ref> Later notable bands of the noise scene were ], ]<ref>{{cite web \| url=https://www.digmeoutpodcast.com/episode/505-in-a-perfect-world-by-season-to-risk \| title=Dig Me Out 505: Season to Risk - in a Perfect World }}</ref> and ].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://thequietus.com/articles/19929-the-best-noise-rock-albums-reviewed\|title=Quietus Writers' Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks\|publisher=The Quietus \|date=March 29, 2016\|access-date=March 29, 2021}}</ref>

			While noise rock has never had any mainstream popularity, the raw, distorted and feedback-intensive sound of some noise rock bands had an influence on ], which enjoyed some popularity in the 90s, especially in the UK, and ], the most commercially successful. Among them are ]'s ], ]'s ], and most notably ]'s ], a band known for its slowed-down and murky "noise punk". The ]' mix of ], ] and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of ].<ref>{{cite book \| last =Azerrad \| first =Michael \| author-link =Michael Azerrad \| title =Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991 \| publisher =Little, Brown \| year =2001 \| pages=439 }}</ref>

			Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band ] serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in ], although Brian Gibson, the band's bassist, is dismissive of the noise punk label, stating "I hate, hate, hate the category "noise-punk" I really don't like being labeled with two words that have so much baggage. It's gross."<ref name="Sisario2004">{{cite web\|last1=Sisario\|first1=Ben\|title=The Art of Noise\|url=http://www.spin.com/2004/12/art-noise/\|website=]\|date=December 2, 2004}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://web.mac.com/labann/Ri_Arts_Review/Bolt_on_Bolt.html\|access-date=April 11, 2009 \|last=Labaan \|title=Lightning Bolt: Interview with the Brians}}{{dead link\|date=November 2016 \|bot=InternetArchiveBot \|fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

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			* {{cite book\|last=Felix\|first=Stanford\|title=The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary\|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJ_Ql1fOCuwC&pg=PT172\|year=2010\|publisher=DK Publishing\|isbn=978-1-101-19809-4}}

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Latest revision as of 02:02, 30 December 2024

Experimental rock music mixed with noise This article is about the specific genre. For the general application of noise in rock music, see Noise in music § Rock music, and Noise music § Noise rock and no wave.

Noise rock
Flipper at the 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C., 1984
Other names	Noise punk
Stylistic origins	Experimental rock punk rock noise minimal psychedelic rock acid rock industrial hardcore punk
Cultural origins	c. Mid-1960s to 1980s, New York City, United States
Derivative forms	Grunge post-hardcore
Other topics
Alternative rock avant-punk indie rock noise pop post-punk no wave mathcore grindcore

Noise rock (sometimes called noise punk) is a noise-oriented style of experimental rock that spun off from punk rock in the 1980s. Drawing on movements such as minimalism, industrial music, and New York hardcore, artists indulge in extreme levels of distortion through the use of electric guitars and, less frequently, electronic instrumentation, either to provide percussive sounds or to contribute to the overall arrangement.

Some groups are tied to song structures, such as Sonic Youth. Although they are not representative of the entire genre, they helped popularize noise rock among alternative rock audiences by incorporating melodies into their droning textures of sound, which set a template that numerous other groups followed. Other early noise rock bands were Big Black, Swans and the Jesus Lizard.

Characteristics

Noise rock fuses rock to noise, usually with recognizable "rock" instrumentation, but with greater use of distortion and electronic effects, varying degrees of atonality, improvisation, and white noise. One notable band of this genre is Sonic Youth, who took inspiration from the no wave composers Glenn Branca and Rhys Chatham. Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore has stated: "Noise has taken the place of punk rock. People who play noise have no real aspirations to being part of the mainstream culture. Punk has been co-opted, and this subterranean noise music and the avant-garde folk scene have replaced it."

History

See also: Experimental rock, Punk rock, and Grunge

Forerunners

While the music had been around for some time, the term "noise rock" was coined in the 1980s to describe an offshoot of punk groups with an increasingly abrasive approach. An archetypal album is the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat (1968). Treblezine's Joe Gross credits White Light/White Heat as the "cult classic" with being the first noise rock album, accordingly, "perhaps it's an obvious starting point, but it's also the starting point. Period." Influenced by the free jazz of Ornette Coleman Reed stated that:

"I thought, you put Hubert Selby with Burroughs or Ginsberg lyrics against some rock with these kind of harmonic going in … wouldn't you have something?"

Les Rallizes Denudés quickly adopted the noise elements developed by the Velvet Underground in White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground & Nico by creating long improvisational songs based on feedback and the use of heavy distortion. The band moved toward an increasingly noise based sound in the 1970s, influencing a great number of artists in the Japanese noise and psychedelic rock scene.

The 1960s groups Red Krayola, Cromagnon, and Nihilist Spasm Band are other bands that were later assessed by some music critics and journalists to be early pioneers of what would become noise rock.

Origins

Guitarist Steve Albini of noise rock band Big Black stated in 1984 in an article that "good noise is like orgasm". He commented: "Anybody can play notes. There's no trick. What is a trick and a good one is to make a guitar do things that don't sound like a guitar at all. The point here is stretching the boundaries." He said that Ron Asheton of the Stooges "made squealy death noise feedback" on "Iggy's monstruous songs". Albini also mentioned John McKay of Siouxsie and the Banshees, saying: "The Scream is notable for a couple of things: only now people are trying to copy it, and even now nobody understands how that guitar player got all that pointless noise to stick together as songs". Albini also said that Keith Levene of Public Image Ltd had this "ability to make an excruciating noise come out of his guitar".

In an article about noise rock, Spin wrote that a US compilation album titled No New York, released in 1978 on an independent label called "Antilles", was important as it documented the no wave New York scene. It featured several songs of Lydia Lunch's first band Teenage Jesus and the Jerks along with material of other groups Mars, DNA and James Chance and the Contortions.

Music

In the 1980s, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Swans were the leading figures of noise rock. Sonic Youth were the first noise rock band to get signed by a major label in 1990. The Jesus Lizard emerged in the early 1990s as a "leading noise rock band" in the American scene with their "willfully abrasive and atonal" style. Later notable bands of the noise scene were Liars, Season to Risk and Unsane.

While noise rock has never had any mainstream popularity, the raw, distorted and feedback-intensive sound of some noise rock bands had an influence on shoegaze, which enjoyed some popularity in the 90s, especially in the UK, and grunge, the most commercially successful. Among them are Wisconsin's Killdozer, Chicago's Big Black, and most notably San Francisco's Flipper, a band known for its slowed-down and murky "noise punk". The Butthole Surfers' mix of punk, heavy metal and noise rock was a major influence, particularly on the early work of Soundgarden.

Starting in the 1990s, noise punk developed mostly as a form of party music, with the band Lightning Bolt serving as key players in the 2000s noise punk scene in Providence, Rhode Island, although Brian Gibson, the band's bassist, is dismissive of the noise punk label, stating "I hate, hate, hate the category "noise-punk" I really don't like being labeled with two words that have so much baggage. It's gross."

References

^ Gardner, Noel (March 30, 2016). "The Sound Of Impact: Noise Rock In 1986". The Quietus. Retrieved September 30, 2017.
Felix 2010, p. 172.
Osborn, Brad (October 2011). "Understanding Through-Composition in Post-Rock, Math-Metal, and other Post-Millennial Rock Genres*". Music Theory Online. 17 (3). doi:10.30535/mto.17.3.4. hdl:1808/12360.
^ "Noise Rock". AllMusic. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
^ Terich, Jeff (February 25, 2013). "Hold On To Your Genre : Noise Rock". Treblezine. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
Blush 2016, p. 266.
"Rhys Chatham", Kalvos-Damien website. (Accessed October 20, 2009).
Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin.
^ Gross, Joe (April 2007). "Essentials: Noise Rock". Spin. 23 (4).
Shteamer, Hank (May 22, 2019). "Flashback: Ornette Coleman Sums Up Solitude on 'Lonely Woman'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 20, 2023.
"Les Rallizes Dénudés: Japan's Noise Pioneers". January 21, 2020.
"The Red Crayola, the Red Krayola - the Parable of Arable Land Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic."Cromagnon - Orgasm Album Reviews, Songs & More | AllMusic". AllMusic."No Record - Record Collector Magazine". Retrieved May 4, 2023."The Nihilist Spasm Band invented noise rock in 1965". February 10, 2017.
^ Albini, Steve. (September - October 1984). "Tired of Ugy Fat ?". Matter (10).
Escobedo Shepherd, Julianne (November 19, 2005). "Sonic Youth". Pitchfork. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
Erlewine, Stephen Thomas. "The Jesus Lizard – AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
"Dig Me Out 505: Season to Risk - in a Perfect World".
"Quietus Writers' Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks". The Quietus. March 29, 2016. Retrieved March 29, 2021.
Azerrad, Michael (2001). Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991. Little, Brown. p. 439.
Sisario, Ben (December 2, 2004). "The Art of Noise". Spin.
Labaan. "Lightning Bolt: Interview with the Brians". Retrieved April 11, 2009.

Sources

Blush, Steven (2016). New York Rock: From the Rise of The Velvet Underground to the Fall of CBGB. St. Martin's Press. ISBN 978-1-250-08361-6.
Felix, Stanford (2010). The Complete Idiot's Guide Music Dictionary. DK Publishing. ISBN 978-1-101-19809-4.

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