Definitions

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  • verb intransitive, informal To produce a raw and discordant sound with electric guitars.

Etymologies

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Imitative.

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Examples

  • And Mr. Lucas's virtuosic playing, with its mercurial flashes of Delta blues and cosmic skronk, shares a fuller soundscape.

    Gods, Monsters and Guitars Steve Dollar 2011

  • That Rock Band gives you its now embarrassingly too-familiar skronk on every missed note is key to sustaining the illusion that you're participating in the performance, even just by slapping a thumb onto a glass sheet.

    Boing Boing 2009

  • Drummer Chris Corsano pulverizes his kit, and the trio's two-guitar attack, by Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny, is the definition of the grating, frenetic playing style known as "skronk."

    Fresh Jams and Old-School Beats 2010

  • You can still seek out bands like Tyvek for joyous blasts of tuneless skronk, if that's your thing.

    All the Pretty Verses, Indie Style 2009

  • With a unique take on post-punk dance music, Maximum Joy meld punky choppy guitars, disco-funk beats and basslines, skronk-y jazz elements, reggae and dub effects, polyrhythms and (more!) cowbell.

    Hit me with your best shot (Music (For Robots)) 2005

  • With a unique take on post-punk dance music, Maximum Joy meld punky choppy guitars, disco-funk beats and basslines, skronk-y jazz elements, reggae and dub effects, polyrhythms and (more!) cowbell.

    Music (For Robots): December 2005 Archives 2005

  • Their sound is low on skronk, high on drone and performer interplay, such that the expected saxophone sounds are often submerged in harmoniously unrecognizable waves of tone, color and percussion.

    Adventures in the NWW List, Part 2 2005

  • One of the other sets we went for a heavily percussive piece, Brian and I did a call&response skronk kind of conversation.

    partypartymaskandcar badger 2003

  • Funhouse pushed the chaos of rock 'n' roll to its natural conclusion, pitting lusty skronk and noise against raw, distorted blues.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • In any case, in the past his scruffed-up skronk did a lot to reconcile the band's affable garage-pop jangle with lyrics about, say, killing cops.

    Chicago Reader 2010

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