Mumble rock

Mumble rock (Russian: Мамбл-рок) is a croaking and sometimes whining sub-genre of rock music, becoming a meme in Russia and Ukraine. There's no certain founder of mumble rock and it has few types of sounding, but the common thing is an illegible speech and guitar background sounding.
==The history and possible creators==
===Mumble rock land's version===
There are some rumors in the internet that mumble rock was initially founded in 2018 by 72-year Russian singer and philosophist Vadim Osipov (aka "Mumble rock land" or "Grandfather of mumble rock"). The first song made in this genre was called "Rock In The Nature". His version of mumble rock is similar to blues and country sounding. Also Osipov doesn't accept any other musicians considering them mumble rock singers and thinks that the origin of mumble rock stretches from Boyd Bennet's activity, who was the founder of mumble blues. Also he created the genre called "causa sue rock".
===The version of MUZ-TV channel===
In April 2019, the Russian channel "Muz-TV" published an overview of this genre, calling the pioneers of mumble rock the groups “Poshlaya Molly”, “Kiss-Kiss” and “Favlav” Muz-TV video reviewNew trand: What is mumble rock?. Also, in the review was mentioned that mumble rockers shoot mainly low-budget videos and reflect the behavior and problems of 20-year-old youth, and the style itself is close to punk rock and hip-hop. The same information was published in Russian wikipedia.
This fact pissed Osipov off because of stealing his genre's name. For more than a year he tried to restore justice trying to edit the page in wikipedia, but the administrators were undoing his edits and kept blocking his IP-s. ALso he made few dozens of videos punishing MUZ-TV and promising to fuck their ass. However, this genre is significantly different from what was called mumble rock by Vadim Osipov.
===Three Days Bright's version===
One of the popular English-singing mumble rock representatives from Ukraine is the band "Three Days Bright" (ex "Bright Veil Green"), led by the Ukrainian activist Max Zeleniy. Though the lyrics of their songs are nothing more but a gibberish, they continue to release new albums and gain thousands of video views on Youtube in colaboration with VEVO. The most popular song by this band is "Still Alive, Never Dying"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1NOYOl_nKE, released in October, 2019. The music video gained 24 thousand views from all over the world, but principally from Moldova and Romania. The other popular song, performed in a mumbling way was released at the end of 2017 under the name "Nothing", but there were no mumble rock term in that time. Also, the single was mentioned in an American magazine "Paste"https://www.pastemagazine.com/noisetrade/music/threedaysbright/still-alive-never-dying.
===Mumble rock in English-speaking countries===
In November, 2018 there was a meme in the internet, showing Amino while reading a book with the label "Nirvana was mumble rock" belowhttps://ifunny.co/meme/nirvana-was-mumble-rock-nirvana-was-mumble-rock-zZcHeSFG6.
In the beginning of 2019 the youtube-channel "Jeffry Walker" published mumble rock song as "an alternative to mumble rap"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOBiDrdk1Ws, which was warmly accepted by Vadim Osipov in comments.
In August, 2019 the band "The Smiling Jungle" presented a single "Alcoholic Mumble Rock" with a music videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNBCVPWuuWo.
In February, 2020 by the singer Antony Payne was released a studio album called "Mumble Rock"https://open.spotify.com/album/03AK7aBTyfOxUfHovHotHl.
In April, 2020 the American rap-rock band "REHAB" in a guest apperance of "Live At The Print Shop" claimed that they invented new genre - mumble rock, performing the debut song in this genreREHAB is singing Mumble Rock.
==References==
==External links==
* Russian review "Mumble rock: who will move the modern pop-stars"
* News.Rambler - "Mumble rock is a new music of youth"
Category:Music genres