How to Use trip-hop in a Sentence

trip-hop

noun
  • So having that ’90s, trip-hop electronic influence sets the tone for that.
    — Christopher Claxton, Billboard, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Chalk it up in part to the Gen-Z trip-hop revival, and in part to the band’s willingness to put their money where their mouth is politically.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 23 Mar. 2026
  • The British Reinvasion didn't end there, either, as proven by trip-hop, drums-and-bass, jungle, or whatever term the British press coined this week for all those heady, space-age samba club beats.
    — Ew Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Sonically, the album is adventurous, diving into sounds like trip-hop and electronic while also building classic rock ballads fit for stadiums and arenas.
    — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2025
  • Afterwards, Canadian downtempo duo Freak Heat Waves pulled a projector screen down from the ceiling and got to work swirling house, psych-rock, dub, and trip-hop into an entrancing, yet slightly somber zone.
    — Nina Corcoran, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2025
  • The Oslo musician’s debut album is a darkly glamorous blur of trip-hop and dance pop, with copious reverb and Auto-Tune as stand-ins for yearning, uneasiness, and irresolution.
    — Kieran Press-Reynolds, Pitchfork, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Orton, who began as a folk/trip-hop musician 30 years ago on debut record Trailer Park, has held onto the melancholia of her early music, but largely eschewed the electronic dance beats that defined her work.
    — David Harris, SPIN, 29 June 2026
  • Sinkane Born in London but raised in Sudan and Ohio, Sinkane (whose real name is Ahmed Gallab) is a vocalist/multi-instrumentalist that blends prog rock, trip-hop, krautrock, prog rock, funk and jazz.
    — Jim Harrington, Mercury News, 29 Sep. 2025
  • On her 2023 debut, the Montreal producer wiggled through new age, trip-hop, and ambient meditations delivered in an ASMR whisper.
    — Kiana Mickles, Pitchfork, 17 Feb. 2026
  • As a member of Massive Attack, Tricky emerged in the early 1990s as a central figure in Bristol’s trip-hop scene, later cementing his solo reputation as one of the genre’s most unconventional and boundary-pushing architects.
    — Spin Staff, SPIN, 11 May 2026
  • The shoegaze, trip-hop, and atmospheric rock show created and hosted by Darren Revell is known for shaping Detroit's alternative soundscape in the 1990s and early 2000s, according to a news release from WDET.
    — Natalie Davies, Freep.com, 16 Nov. 2025

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