Falls Road by Fort Fairfield is a gentle piece – it’s not hard to imagine it as elevator music, if you dig drum and bass, electronica and synths while waiting for the lift. The name of the genre comes from how the tracks “squeeze” the best sounds you can get from vintage synthesizers. Zephrium Scan by Kim Cascone is an electronic number, which felt more like a musical interpretation of a Windows OS defragmentation process. The song we got at random was Music for a Glimpse Inward by Rolf Julius, and it is truly ambient music taken to an acute degree – it sounds like a cold forest, and we suppose that’s what the artist was implying.

Spotify says that it’s “extreme ambient minimalist music”. For fairness, we hit the ‘Shuffle Play’ button so Spotify would start on a random song from each respective playlist, although you could certainly go for the ones you’re interested in if you’re on the Spotify client. We would agree that these genres are a little too specific, even if you’re someone who has a broad taste in songs.īelow, we list 5 genres that we find most interesting, and our thoughts on them after a quick listen. The online music streaming service has a bunch of playlists that are so strange that even they felt compelled to post a blog entry mentioning 50 genres with the strangest names. Here are the oddest genres you can listen to on Spotifyĭo you think you have an eclectic taste in music? Even if you do, we are quite certain that you’ve not heard all 1,369 genres of music available on Spotify.

Spotify music genres