Here are the musical trends that eat the cymbals that eat the drums according to pitchfork. If you wanna work on the most annoying hi thee to pitchfork.com. I don’t know what the worst is but the most fun is bassline.
1.90s revivalism (No Age, Japandroids, Cymbals Eat Guitars)
2.Afropop indie (Dirty Projectors, Fool’s Gold, Abe Vigoda)
3.Animal Collective acolytes (Blind Man’s Colour, Our Brother the Native, USF)
4.Balearic (jj, John Talabot, Windsurf/Hatchback)
5.Chillwave/glo-fi (Washed Out, Neon Indian, Nite Jewel)
6.Dubstep and its offshoots (wonky, funky, bassline)
7.Post-Lily Allen UK pop (La Roux, Little Boots, Florence and the Machine)
8.Prim, buttoned-up indie (Grizzly Bear, Andrew Bird, St. Vincent)
9.Shitgaze/lo-fi aesthetics (Times New Viking, Wavves, Vivian Girls)