What is Slowcore/Sadcore? & The Essentials to the Sound

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[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

One of the most beautiful live music I have seen was Bedhead at Emo's. They started very softly, so soft most didn't know they had started. We all went up to close to stage. Hypnotizing but so intimate. I see it as everyone was exhausted by loud fast music. Codeine was so slow they must count. I think people moved from White Light... to the Third Velvets album. This was the beginning of slowcore in my recollections

[@pedalpartners]

interesting insight, thank you!

[@davidellis5141]

Hope Slowdive have one last album in them & don't expect another large scale tour but Rachel might be up for some showcase dates .. Fingers crossed 🤞 for 2023.

[@pedalpartners]

yeah, i hope to see them in 2023 - it's been five years since i last saw them in 2017! can't wait for lp5!

[@farhadchaudhry]

Well, they're playing at Glastonbury.

[@kevinmercer8265]

Thanks!

[@pedalpartners]

thanks for the love!

[@orbitron20]

The best genre!! Super psyched you mentioned hood, I love how they also blend slowcore with electronic musc and idm. Love the deep dive you did with the aspects of slowcore, lofis defos a large aspect, and imo the genre wouldn't sound the same if it wasn't for the 4 track tape machine! Absolutely loved this video, can't wait for what's next!

[@pedalpartners]

knew you'd like this one! hood is a new discovery for me, super cool music. i love the way slowcore bands use vocals as texture, in a way like shoegaze, but in slowcore i feel it's more atmospheric, with different effects & looping used to create a unique sound!

[@ReMarkArtist]

I could live in hope by Low is one of the greatest albums of all time imo

[@Claybraham91]

Lisa Germano is an AMAZING slow core artist.

[@kazukihiratani]

Low are awesome! I hope they come to New Zealand one day!

[@pedalpartners]

hope they do for you!

[@gerbilpmc]

Idaho is another great slowcore band. I would check out their album Levitate

[@pedalpartners]

good shout, cheers for watching!

[@maartenstevens9848]

I liked this little docu. Slowcore is the nephew of shoegaze. I always feel sedated when listening to bedhead by some weird happy/sad/slowdown drug. I also remember this little side project from Galaxy 1000 : Pierre Etoile. Very slowcore, happy but not at the same time. Only one EP I think. Very nice topic fore a video, mr Luka ! Have to try some of the unknown names.

[@pedalpartners]

thank you :) i love focusing on great 90s alternative music, some of my favourite sounds :)

[@maartenstevens9848]

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[@maartenstevens9848]

@@pedalpartners I sent a link for the Pierre Etoile song. You will like it. There is also one other.

[@Zack-si9qr]

codeine is probably one of the best slowcore bands out there. The White Birch is at the center of the genre and Washed Up is such an amazing example of slowcore

[@ChadKing69]

the best is red house painters (easily)

[@shadowstranquil]

Came here for this comment. 🎯

[@dorien_rose]

CODEINE!

[@2-bh]

Do you mean Washed Out?

[@Zack-si9qr]

@@2-bh no the song washed up by codeine

[@Colors_Unknown]

Shout out to the beautiful analog visuals and the video was just fantastic

[@pedalpartners]

thank you! visuals are something i'm very passionate about, in fact i would say i spend more time in that realm currently, obsessing over all the analog gear i can't afford!

[@henryhayth3303]

I love the tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey you did when you started talking about Hood.

[@pedalpartners]

thanks man, love that you always notice these things :)

[@_Adie]

While it's not a genre I'd listen to on the daily, one definitely needs songs like these every now and then.

[@pedalpartners]

great super-chilled music, cheers!

[@LiterallyLiterallying]

Excellent video, thank you for making this

[@pedalpartners]

glad you enjoyed it, cheers!

[@StellasEncounter]

This video is so gorgeous! The sounds and visual!

[@stuartchapman5171]

Loving this, inspiring. I'm going to check some of these bands. You could loose yourself in this sound. I like the comments at the end. The possibility that the sound was a reflection of hardship. Although today you have access to unlimited tools in a modern DAW, when the genre first materialised you had little access. The limited gear pallet always leads to greater creativity.

[@pedalpartners]

thanks stuart! i definitely find giving yourself limitation can inspire creativity :)

[@stuartchapman5171]

@@pedalpartners Daphne Oram made a device that could read graphite images and translate them into sound. It was a big deal when the science museum putvit on display. The gut in charge mentions the excessive amount of software and gear available and said that some of the best music being created, outside of the mainstream is made by folk who for whatever reason have a limited pallette.

[@gazeunderthesunmusic]

Good stuff dude but I think you forgot one in important band in the slow core movement is Red House Painters which is just as important as low and codine

[@pedalpartners]

thanks matt! fair shout, i did try get into that band a while back but didn't really like the music. we also like to avoid people who have been caught up in any sort of discrimination or misconduct like has been the case with one of the members in that band. always want to be an inclusive environment here at pedal partners 💗

[@gazeunderthesunmusic]

@@pedalpartners fair enough

[@dlittle9556]

@@pedalpartners mark koslek is a piece of shit but he was an instrumental part of the genre.

[@Paulyb7]

Yeah Red House Painters made some of the best music I’ve ever heard. Mark Kozelek’s solo stuff is good too, regardless of any of the accusations regarding his personal life

[@pedalpartners]

@@Paulyb7 i think it's important as people & as musicians to stand up against any form of discrimination or sexism - from an insider, both are still rife within the music & gear industries & that should really not be the case in 2022

[@UryneCayne]

I fucking adore Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions.

[@UryneCayne]

Also, killer video! :)

[@pedalpartners]

yes, great artist! love mazzy star too :)

[@pedalpartners]

thank you :)

[@kevinmercer8265]

Good stuff all 'round. Bedhead was amazing to see live, more like a guitar orchestra (3 guitars+bass). Go back and listen to Cowboy Junkies' Trinity Session, which is a direct line to Mazzy Star and blues/americana influenced slow stuff. Later JAMC, Tram, Movietone, Hayden, Acetone. The other direction was the minimalism of midwest indie/post rock, which had great slow burn albums by Slint, the for carnation, Aerial M, Papa M (especially live in a shark cage), Palace, Songs Ohia, and the two heartbreaking/breathtaking solo records by Jason Molina, Pyramid Electric Co. and Let me go. Cap it off with the moody, glacial, early stuff by GodspeedYouBlackEmperor and A Silver Mount Zion (chamber strings + barren guitar dystopias). Big giant rabbit hole to dive into, but some of us have been here the whole time :)

[@pedalpartners]

thanks for watching & sharing, see you at the rabbit hole public house 🍻 ;)

[@proddrown.]

For anyone into slowcore check out the band deathcrash, their album return is definitely one of my favourites of the year

[@KommentarSpaltenKrieger]

yeah they are onto something

[@mustardsauce5201]

honestly ive been listening to a lot of duster and starry cat and salvia palth and i've just been wanting to make music like. I've more tyler the creator jazzy or lo-fi type beats or maybe even kanye westy stuff but this is a new genre for me in terms of making it.

[@jimmyjohnson866]

I've been listening to bluetile lounge and I highly recommend them to anybody that likes slowcore music

[@nebulabeyond]

Well. I already was doing Sunn O))) style droning, so I guess I'm gonna make this genre 50% of my personality too...

[@NTD2827]

Do you think you could make a video on the pedals that Paul Leary used in The Butthole Surfers?

[@Abyssaeon]

Aside from your audial contributions, I really appreciate your visual work. I could mute these and get just as much from the visual textures.

[@pedalpartners]

ah thanks that means a lot. spent five years building up my unique style, it's a creative form i really love. i am all about textures :)

[@RandomButtonPusher]

Low, who I belatedly discovered through their latest album and have since caught up with their discography (17 albums I believe) has both evolved and stayed true to their "slowcore" aesthetic. The latest work, which I saw played straight through at a club show in Madison, Wisconsin, this summer, is something I've described to others as industrial folk music. Alan's guitar now grinds on Mimi's soaring ethereal vocals and together they wash over you in waves that stimulate and sooth at the same time -- the result is truly ecstatic. I think, for them, their geographic grounding from living in Duluth, Minnesota, with its short brilliant summers and long dark frigid winters, is likely a big influence, allowing them to gestate their music without the interference of urban America. Listening to the scope of their work tells me they know what they want to achieve and are satisfied to be themselves. Plus, after chatting with Alan and Mimi before the show, they are pretty chill and regular kind of Upper Midwest/Northwoods folks.

[@loadedpainted7040]

RIP Mimi Parker

[@sagesimms7889]

I'd argue that Candy Claws has some stake here too

[@fayecocteau]

Love your videos 🙌🏻

[@pedalpartners]

thank you so much 💗

[@SubZero-qi9hk]

I've listen to Robin Guthrie,Low Roar,Harold Budd,Roger Eno,Kate St.John,Dakota Suite,Dream Koala,Sparklehorse and Low.

[@pedalpartners]

nice mix there! :)

[@meistylerbrady]

Yo Luca! Would you consider making a "What is Noise Rock?" or "What is Blackgaze?" video?

[@pedalpartners]

lots more videos like this planned - stay tuned! :)

[@annie_talanina]

thanks a lot! great video)

[@pedalpartners]

thanks so much for watching!

[@notjonas1266]

havent seen anyone mention bluetile lounge or sprain, if you see this check them out

[@elevatedcosmonaut1433]

Thank you so much for mentioning hood. Hopefully you can make a tutorial on how to make slowcore

[@pedalpartners]

always love giving a shout to artists who deserve more love :)

[@xBelastianx]

I have considered Codeine and Duster always to be slowcore. Same with Lowercase. But I guess, Slowcore is more considered clean non violent music (read: non distorted guitars).

[@pedalpartners]

both awesome bands! c o n s t e l l a t i on s

[@glasnost3561]

duster hates the term slowcore, and to be honest i don’t really think they fit in the genre nor do they fit in post rock, a one of a kind band really

[@Mr.President34]

@@glasnost3561duster basically invented slowcore

[@glasnost3561]

@@Mr.President34 I think low, bedhead, bluetile lounge, and codeine, even julee cruise are more involved with starting slowcore than duster is

[@Mr.President34]

@@glasnost3561 yeah I see where your coming from personally duster is my fav so that’s why I was saying that

[@brucebaldy]

Yeah! People need to calm the hell down a bit. Relax, get the head together. Happy Highway Trucking.

[@pedalpartners]

keep on truckin' baby

[@betterstayout0]

Nice video. I would have liked it more if you showed examples of songs by Low and Clarissa's wierd, tho. But thank you for sharing

[@pedalpartners]

we don't really cover songs on the channel, i like to keep things original for a couple of reasons. we don't own the rights to other people's songs + i just love to make original music! here to share the love of music & encourage people to go check out & support the bands we feature. thanks!

[@mazesvga4669]

Galaxie 500❤️❤️❤️ Such a underrated gem. Glad you mentioned this band. Great work on this vid.

[@pedalpartners]

love exploring indie gems ✨ thank you! this one took it out of me tbh, did everything - script-writing, recording, music, visuals in two days so imma head out! see ya soon (oh & i'll be back with my debut single soon) ;)

[@URTH-yb5xh]

Slowcore is floating world

[@pedalpartners]

niceeeeee :) ⛅️

[@EB-coffee]

Deadharrie is amazing

[@seansleep3275]

whats the band called that he says in vid that he says were one of first that he realy started listning to that really got him into slow core i think its a recent band

[@pedalpartners]

time stamp?

[@FiKeppe]

could Elliott Smith be considered slowcore too?

[@FiKeppe]

great video btw..!!

[@briangarcia8384]

Slowdive or mbv?

[@pedalpartners]

we love each for different things, but if we're being sentimental - slowdive. i do love the sonic walls of noise mr shields brought to the world tho :)

[@handel1111]

why does it have a -core suffix when it doesn't even sound hardcore punk ?

[@mathias841]

Maybe the audience were people from the hardcore scene?

[@whenpigsfly860]

I don’t know but that suffix lost all scene relevance with “cottagecore”. Gross.

[@mathias841]

@@whenpigsfly860 wtf didn't know about that it's worse thzn slowcore

[@100PercentBOOTLEG]

Chinese Cigarettes (self titled) √√√√√√√√

[@Yintalk]

Duster enough said

[@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube]

This has only happened a couple of times but I never checked out My Bloody Valentine's music because I hated the name so much. At the time, it sounded like the worst version of Goth music which wasn't something I understood properly to begin with. I need to rectify that. Cheers

[@pedalpartners]

early mbv is actually gothic, though helping invent shoegaze & inventing glide guitar is why i love mbv. definitely worth a listen - for a quick overview try the songs 'slow' 'to here knows when' 'she found now'

[@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube]

@@pedalpartners, I will listen to those songs. Thank you.