Chamber pop

Chamber pop, originally known as ork-pop (short for orchestral pop), is a style of Indie Pop which developed in the early to mid-1990s partly as a reaction to the rougher Grunge, Slacker Rock, and other Alternative Rock styles which were popular at the time. At its core is a particularly "retro" Pop sound based on the smooth, melodic songwriting of Lounge and other Easy Listening, especially the work of Burt Bacharach, as well as 1960s pop styles like Sunshine Pop, Psychedelic Pop, and Phil Spector's Wall of Sound Brill Building productions. Brian Wilson's ornate Baroque Pop arrangements on The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds were particularly influential to the early ork-pop scene. While chamber pop usually retained the standard indie pop instrumentation, including guitar, bass, and drums, it frequently incorporated piano, strings, horns, winds, Rhodes, vibraphone, and other instruments uncommon in contemporary Rock.