It's been nearly 40 years since Elton John crooned about the importance of sad songs. But for a new generation facing a new suite of traumas, a new musical genre has emerged: sadcore.
Distinguished by minimal instrumentation and production, melancholy lyrics and slow tempo - which lends the genre its other name, slowcore - Montreal-based musician Amy Macdonald says the style resonates with many young people coming of age during a global pandemic and economic turmoil.
“It's always kind of special,” she said. “When you hear a piece of music or some lyrics that resonate with you really deeply, you end up kind of thinking, 'Oh, wow, how did this person know how I'm feeling?”'Like the largely acoustic folk style of the 1960s, Gould says sadcore lyrics reflects society and features a stripped back and organic sound, albeit through electric and digital tools.
Macdonald notes sadcore'sslow tempo allows the listener to take a moment with the music, a sort of release valve for pent-up emotions. “I guess being in movement and just trying to process all of the complicated emotions that came with grieving her death and celebrating her life helped,” she says. “I started to generate musical ideas out of that.”
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