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Bleak vs Sadcore - What's the difference?

bleak | sadcore |

As nouns the difference between bleak and sadcore

is that bleak is a small european river fish (alburnus alburnus ), of the family cyprinidae while sadcore is (music|rare) a form of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slow tempos.

As an adjective bleak

is without color; pale; pallid.

bleak

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bleke (also bleche > English .

Adjective

(er)
  • Without color; pale; pallid.
  • * Foxe
    • When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
  • Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
  • * Wordsworth
    • Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
  • * Longfellow
    • at daybreak, on the bleak sea beach
    A bleak and bare rock.
    They escaped across the bleak landscape.
    A bleak , crater-pocked moonscape.
    We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
  • Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
    • Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
    A bleak future is in store for you.
    The news is bleak .
    The survey paints a bleak picture.

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) bleikja .

    Noun

    (en noun) (wikipedia bleak)
  • A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidae.
    • Synonyms
    * alburn * blay

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    sadcore

    English

    Noun

    (-) (wikipedia sadcore)
  • (music, rare) A form of alternative rock characterised by bleak lyrics, downbeat melodies and slow tempos.
  • * 1996 , Billboard (magazine, 21 September 1996)
    • As proof of this, Staub points to the wide variety of press coverage the band received, from spotlights in the usual music media to reports in People, Time, NPR (which identified the band as one of the leaders of the "sadcore" movement), and even Martha Stewart Living...
  • * 1999 , Seán Body, Wish the world away: Mark Eitzel and American Music Club
    • Also, The Red House Painters were the first in a wave of bands that followed in AMC's wake, making slow, bleak music that the press would later dub "sadcore" ...
  • * 2000 , Dave Thompson, Alternative rock
    • Despite past disappointments, the undisputed king (and queen) of sadcore return...
  • * 2000 , Joel Lane, From Blue to Black
    • Even in 'serious' rock journalism, every sound was a kind of core: hardcore, slowcore, speedcore, sadcore . What next?
  • * 2004 , Jonathan DiMarco, Good Bullets Make Bad Neighbors
    • ...one of the grayest sadcore bands on God's bleak earth, a band that for encores — however rarely it earned them — would slog through Irish jigs...

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