Bleak House

Bleak House is a theorized subgenre of house music characterized by a repetitive four-on-the-floor beat, a tempo of 120 bpm, and a merging of positive, uplifting sonics with a perverse existential angst that addresses Weltschmerz by leaning into Schopenhauerian pessimism.

* Reference made to Charles Dickens’ 1853 novel, Bleak House
* Term coined by Projekt Records’ Sam Rosenthal on June 13, 2023, in reference to VEiiLA

On their third album, after their recording studio burned down and all their gear was lost, they really went for that Bleak House sound.