I was browsing music on Spotify and kept seeing this "Escape Room" genre label on what seemed to be very divergent artists. I noticed that particular bands connected to genres such as industrial, hip hop, noise, pop, indie, lofi, jazz, IDM, psychedelic and punk were all being tagged "Escape Room". I found this all very curious, so I consulted google and found this article.

The genre is one generated organicaly from spotify-users' listening habits. The spotify reccomendation algorithm grouped these artists together, despite being quite different on the surface. The article discusses the everynoise.com site, which is a very interesting and useful tool that maps all genres on Spotify. I've used this tool in the past. I looked up "Escape Room" on everynoise and found that many bands that I listen to are in it, mostly along the outside edges of the cloud, but a few toward the core.

I never noticed many similarities between some of these bands, so I found it very interesting that spotify was able to lump them all together and find commonality between them.