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Noun

sadcore ‎(uncountable)

1. (music, rare) A form of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slow tempos.
   • 1996, Billboard (magazine, 21 September 1996)

     As proof of this, Staub points to the wide variety of press coverage the band received, from spotlights in the usual music media to reports in People, Time, NPR (which identified the band as one of the leaders of the "sadcore" movement), and even Martha Stewart Living...

   • 1999, Seán Body, Wish the world away: Mark Eitzel and American Music Club

     Also, The Red House Painters were the first in a wave of bands that followed in AMC's wake, making slow, bleak music that the press would later dub "sadcore"...

   • 2000, Dave Thompson, Alternative rock

     Despite past disappointments, the undisputed king (and queen) of sadcore return...

   • 2000, Joel Lane, From Blue to Black

     Even in 'serious' rock journalism, every sound was a kind of core: hardcore, slowcore, speedcore, sadcore. What next?

   • 2004, Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors

     ...one of the grayest sadcore bands on God's bleak earth, a band that for encores — however rarely it earned them — would slog through Irish jigs...

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