How to Use experimentalism in a Sentence

experimentalism

noun
  • This was Prince’s third album, but the first on which his lusty funk-pop experimentalism was operating at full sweat levels.
    — Jon Caramanica, New York Times, 21 Apr. 2016
  • The singer and percussionist team up for an album of cosmic experimentalism and amorphous funk.
    — Marcus J. Moore, Pitchfork, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Twigs edges just to the brink of the mainstream but leaps back into experimentalism before getting too close to ordinariness.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The song’s experimentalism is out of this world, but its solar flair is grounded by the earthiness of the instrumentation.
    — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 12 June 2018
  • The rest of the nine-track album pushes to new extremities of silence, slowness, and experimentalism.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Here, the group marries jazz-kid experimentalism with taut punk, sprawling worldbuilding, and social commentary.
    — Archie Forde, Pitchfork, 1 May 2026
  • Forensic analysis aside, the album is still great, ranging from sweetness and playfulness to dark menace, from vintage soul to dark experimentalism.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 14 May 2024
  • At the same time, she is attracted to vivid colors, extravagant gestures, experimentalism with a visceral streak.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Parker offers a glowing gift of approachable experimentalism to non-jazz listeners and skeptics alike with sounds that are sunny and sweet, smooth and delectable.
    — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Written with intent and momentum, both musical and liberatory, pink balloons rips through snarling punk and eerie experimentalism to forge a better world.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 4 Dec. 2024
  • As warm weather and weekend one of Coachella kicked off with a sartorial bang, fashion’s favorite faces sported sunny looks offset with a dash of experimentalism.
    — Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2018
  • At its worst, the music on Everyone’s Crushed sounds like etudes – studies in experimentalism, finger exercises for tyros in the avant-garde.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
  • Parks freed into a glorious experimentalism, with violin the instigator of her party.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 26 Dec. 2022
  • Lewis’s 25-minute track culls energy from techniques of classical experimentalism — as well from brass and wind accents that recall Duke Ellington.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2020
  • Everything from folk to gospel to blues seeped into the Bad Seeds’ sound, filtered through an orchestral flair for drama and a deconstructionist’s sense of experimentalism.
    — Jason Heller, The Atlantic, 4 May 2017
  • It's got bits of disco, trip-hop, and new wave peppered throughout for a fresh take on commercial viability that doesn't have to put brakes on experimentalism, a cornerstone of what Gorillaz are all about.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 5 July 2017
  • He has been singled out for praise by Herbie Hancock and others for his daring approach to cutting-edge improvisations and take-no-prisoners experimentalism.
    — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 June 2021
  • But the most effective expression of the film’s futurism isn’t in the dialogue so much as in Coppola’s filmmaking and technical experimentalism.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2024
  • Regardless of the drug in question, McCartney’s tape-loop experimentalism was a mind-blowing musical exercise for the artist himself, as well as for Beatles fans.
    — Scott Thill, WIRED, 9 June 2011
  • While visual arts, dance, and theater tend to be open to experimentalism, classical music is generally less keen on innovation; orchestra repertoires across the world consistently recycle the works of composers who are long dead.
    — Maya Chung, The New York Review of Books, 26 Mar. 2019
  • Armed with early synthesizers and an eagerness for tape manipulation, United States of America pushed the boundaries of prog-rock and psych-pop in the name of experimentalism.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Magdalene, a devastating and delicate feat of musical craftsmanship that combines classical operatics and pop experimentalism, all while Twigs works her way through a very public breakup.
    — Natalie Maher, Harper's BAZAAR, 14 Mar. 2022
  • With his dark Mexican rave sound, the New York-by-way-of-Tijuana producer explores themes of power and corruption through minimal experimentalism.
    — Jessica Roiz, Billboard, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Vijay Iyer’s avant-garde excursions borrow from Monk’s percussive experimentalism.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Oct. 2017
  • This arresting short feature, which mixes elements of film diary, experimentalism, reportage and archival assembly, stretches the documentary form in ways that are personal without being self-indulgent.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Now his experimentalism and transnationalism aren’t discouragements but invitations to a larger global audience.
    — Adam Bradley Tajh Rust, New York Times, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Poco’s music was generally twangier and more populist than that of Buffalo Springfield, a band that had at times gravitated toward experimentalism and obfuscation.
    — New York Times, 17 Apr. 2021
  • The experimentalism and audacity of 1980s club kids inspired Valentino, one of the last high-octane shows of this Paris Fashion Week couture season.
    — Thomas Adamson, ajc, 26 Jan. 2023
  • Everything from Mexican pop to European experimentalism was strained, boiled, compressed and stretched into addictive instrumental taffy.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2024
  • Eventually, the experimentalism collapses into a straightforward pop song.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 9 June 2023

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