Art Rock · GenresWhat is art rock?
Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture." Art rock is an "intrinsically album-based" form, which takes "advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations." The Golden Age of Rock lectures define art rock as "a piece of music in the rock idiom that is appealing more intellectually or musically, that is, not formulated along pop lines for mass consumption.
Artists to start with
Albums to hear first
Blackstar
A Light for Attracting Attention
Here Come the Warm Jets![Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [2017 Remaster] by David Bowie](https://lastfm-img.freetls.fastly.net/i/u/300x300/5c9a4effacd027def28e712bcc20d474.png)
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) [2017 Remaster]
The Kick Inside
Station To Station (2016 Remaster)
LowArt Rock songs
- Decks Dark by Radiohead
- The Place Where He Inserted The Blade by Black Country, New Road
- Washing Machine Heart by Mitski
- Weird Fishes / Arpeggi by Radiohead
- Ful Stop by Radiohead
- Chaos Space Marine by Black Country, New Road
- Beach Life-in-Death by Car Seat Headrest
- I Know the End by Phoebe Bridgers
- Lazarus by David Bowie
- Sound and Vision - 2017 Remaster by David Bowie
Art Rock on Risocast
A Moon Shaped PoolRadiohead · 2016
Low (2017 Remaster)David Bowie · 1977
The Dreaming (2018 Remaster)Kate Bush · 1982
Here Come The Warm JetsBrian Eno · 1973
languagespirit blue · 2025
Warm StaticCorridor · 2026
ChemicalsHorse Vision, Tiffi M · 2025
Zelená poštaPavol Hammel
Weird Fishes / ArpeggiRadioheadTonight, Tonight - Remastered 2012The Smashing Pumpkins · 1995
Neighbouring genres
In the rock & punk family. All genres
alternative rockrockcrust punkart punkdeathrockindietronicaexperimental rockanarcho-punkglam rockgrungehard rockheartland rockQuestions
- What is art rock?
- Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture." Art rock is an "intrinsically album-based" form, which takes "advantage of the format's capacity for longer, more complex compositions and extended instrumental explorations." The Golden Age of Rock lectures define art rock as "a piece of music in the rock idiom that is appealing more intellectually or musically, that is, not formulated along pop lines for mass consumption.
- Who are the best-known art rock artists?
- By Last.fm listening: Geordie Greep, The Smile, mary in the junkyard, Candelabro, betcover!! and My New Band Believe.
- What genres are similar to art rock?
- On Risocast it sits with alternative rock, rock, crust punk, art punk, deathrock and indietronica.
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Updated 6 October 2026
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