bedroom pop

bedroom pop (uncountable)

1. (music) A musical genre or aesthetic in which bands record at home, rather than at traditional recording spaces.
   • [2006 January 26, Hugo Lindgren, “Garbagehead Revisited”, in New York‎^[1]:

     Among the inscrutable terms invented to parse the stylistic subtleties of rock music, “bedroom pop” stands out as an elegantly descriptive coinage. The bedroom in question refers not to the content of the songs but to where they’re produced. These are solo projects, sort of like writing in a diary or sketching on a pad, and in New York, there is practically an epidemic of the stuff.]

   • 2017 March 22, Joe Coscarelli, “Jay Som Brings Her D.I.Y. Bedroom Pop to Brooklyn”, in The New York Times‎^[2]:

     The Oakland, Calif., singer and songwriter Melina Duterte, who calls her D.I.Y. bedroom pop project Jay Som, does it all.

   • 2020 October 8, David Peisner, “beabadoobee Made Bedroom Pop. Now She’s Turning Up the Volume.”, in New York Times‎^[3]:

     “We’re straying from the idea of bedroom pop sonically but ‘Fake It Flowers’ was still me writing songs here,” Kristi said, motioning toward walls filled with photos of friends, a tricolor tapestry and iconic posters of Tom Hanks from the film “Big” and the Beatles at Abbey Road.