art-rock

noun

ˈärt-ˌräk 

: rock music that incorporates elements of traditional or classical music

art-rocker

ˈärt-ˌrä-kər 

noun

Examples of art-rock in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Sleek dance-pop grooves but also classicist balladry, fey art-rock, and drag-amenable camp all play crucial but disparate parts. —Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2025

On the way: indie-folk songwriter Lissie (Sunday, May 18), Philly rockers Low Cut Connie (Tuesday, Sep. 30), and art-rock virtuoso Destroyer (Sunday, Oct. 19). —David Hudnall, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2025

After releasing the album Oriente in 2017 — a sumptuous collage of dream pop melodies and art-rock moods — the Buenos Aires quartet played SXSW in 2019, recorded a 2021 live session for KEXP, and even placed a song in an Oreo commercial. —Ernesto Lechner, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025

Her fragile integrity plays interestingly against the star casting of Lee Pace as the affected art-rock god leading Maestro’s character into an cosmic puzzle. —Guy Lodge, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025

Glory, out March 28 on his longtime label Matador Records, is the seventh studio album from Mike Hadreas’ long-running art-rock project. —Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 15 Jan. 2025

The adventurous New York art-rock crew reunites for its first gigs since 2019. —Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 2 Dec. 2024

Polish art-rock band Trupa Trupa have announced their latest release: a five-song EP called Mourners, due out Feb. 21, 2025 on Glitterbeat Records. —Simon Vozick-Levinson, Rolling Stone, 27 Nov. 2024

Beat communicated with advanced and exotic languages, its wide-ranging vocabulary including experimental, art-rock,pop, jazz, funk, new-wave and gamelan elements. —Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 2 Nov. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1968, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for art-rock

• alcock
• beanstalk
• bedrock
• boardwalk
• catwalk
• cornstalk
• crosswalk
• deadlock
• feedstock
• fetlock
• flintlock
• goshawk