It wasn’t long before other artists followed suit, as hundreds of fans flocked to Instagram, Reddit and YouTube to celebrate the small yet dedicated microgenre.Ĭomfy synth releases typically come with their own backstories played out in immersive worlds, with covers depicting tableaus like woodland creatures huddled on picnic blankets, pouring lemonade and munching carrots, or birds watching over lakes in Tolkein’s Middle Earth. While both dungeon and comfy synth embrace minimalist compositions, the latter has a notably lighter sound, with plinking pianos and hazy synthesiser arrangements. Unlike dungeon synth, the songs were less about icy tundras, fortresses, and ancient curses, but rather wholesome activities like picking beans, sipping on glasses of milk, and going fishing. Ĭomfy synth emerged in 2019 as an offshoot of ‘dungeon synth’ – an electronic genre of atmospheric, swooping synthesiser music that originated in the extreme metal underground – when one artist, Ohio-based Grandma’s Cottage, released his debut EP, Cottage. Soundtracking this aesthetic online is a growing community of artists making comfy synth, a flourishing microgenre that evokes feelings of folksy nostalgia by way of lo-fi, beatless electronics that swaddle listeners in a snug sonic blanket, and a typically waddling pace that feels like the aural equivalent of immersing yourself in Arthur Rackham’s lost Cadbury’s box art. In recent years, idealising nature and cosiness, cottagecore and its offshoots – prariecore, warmcore, goblincore – extended this concept to all seasons, with romanticised visions of foraging, hunkering down in remote cabins, harvesting crops of fruit, frolicking animals, and wildflowers blooming on the edge of verdant green forests. Each winter, the Scandinavian concept of hygge comes in from the cold – perhaps best exemplified by reading a cosy book by a crackling fire, while a blustering wind howls outside.
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