schizoid pop

While a few songs could be trimmed down (the schizoid pop/rap of "New Agenda" and the trie "Funky Big Band"), for the most part, the grooves are so solid here that they carry any weak parts.

1993, Bill Peterson, “Jackson Puts new "janet" CD on the Top of the Charts”, in Latest Issue Vol. 5, No. 2, page 19

Enjoyably schizoid pop-rock stylings from this Minneapolis quartet. Seabniss you're in a musty Sunday afternoon drawing room, listening to Suzanne Vega’s love child by Moe Tucker murmuring pensive music-box euphonies; other times it's Ben Folds at Lennon's white piano, intoning wintry imaginings.

2004, Unattributed, “The Owls”, in Shredding Paper 18 (2004 Fall)

The sneering public school humour of Viv Stanshall and Peter Cook was a major factor in The Instant Automatons' brilliantly schizoid pop, as it was for many others. Krautrock hadn't filtered through, and although punk was important, it was the pre-'76 mavericks and post-'78 dub experimentalists who made the biggest impression on the world of DIY.

2007, Everett True, “Dance this mess around”, in Plan B Magazine Issue 20, page 51

Catch Twenty One Pilots all buttoned up: Twenty One Pilots fire piano-driven schizoid pop at the Mid¬ dle East Downstairs on June 22.

2013, Hannah Lott-Schwartz, “Impulses / Music”, in The improper Bostonian, page 63

Twenty One Pilots: Blurryface Cares What You Think: Are they pop punk? Indieronica? Schizoid pop? Fusing as many different styles as you can imagine, the Ohio duo gam a following for being the band who sounds like everything - and nothing - you’ve ever heard before.

2016, Rutland Free Library-Rutland Historical Society Collaboration, “Popular Music”, in West Rutland High School Yearbook 2016