Baroque pop
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Baroque pop as a style originated in the mid 1960s as the flipside of sunshine pop. It used similar orchestrations but was infused with a melodramatic edge which differed.
[edit] Archetypal and seminal Baroque pop performers
Much of The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds would fall into this category, as would a lot of the later work of Phil Spector. Scott Walker is another important figure in the genre. Others include:
- The Association, particularly owing to Curt Boettcher
- Burt Bacharach
- Serge Gainsbourg
- The Left Banke
- Van Dyke Parks
- The Zombies
[edit] Modern baroque pop
Modern baroque pop, characterized by an infusion of orchestral arrangements or classical type composition within an indie or indie pop setting, is usually referred to as chamber pop.
Popular baroque pop artists today include:
- Annie Moses Band
- Antony and the Johnsons
- Fiona Apple
- Arcade Fire
- Badly Drawn Boy
- Richard Barone
- Belle & Sebastian
- Andrew Bird
- Broken Social Scene
- The Decemberists
- The Divine Comedy
- Feist
- Iron & Wine
- Kings of Convenience
- Jens Lekman
- Sondre Lerche
- Margot and the Nuclear So and So's
- Mean Red Spiders
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Emitt Rhodes
- Duncan Sheik
- Elliott Smith
- Stars (band)
- Sufjan Stevens
- Rufus Wainwright
- The Velvet Teen
- The Visible Men
- The Now People
