Electronic Country
tagStarted early 2010sPeak 2016–presentLast big hit still active
Electronic Country is the widest umbrella for country records built with obvious digital production: loop-based percussion, programmed textures, synth bass, and pop editing alongside country voices or themes. It may or may not lean toward rap or EDM; the organizing trait is electronic studio language.
History
As Nashville production modernized, electronic arrangements stopped being special effects and became normal tools. This let artists from Sam Hunt to Kane Brown to playlist-era crossovers approach country as a flexible top line over modern pop production, enlarging the genre's commercial vocabulary even as purists grumbled into the void.
Defining artists
Essential listening
Sources
- Billboard country trends and charts