Characteristics According to music journalist Simon Reynolds, standard musical fixtures of gothic rock include "scything guitar patterns, high-pitched basslines that often usurped the melodic role [and] beats that were either hypnotically dirgelike or tom-tom heavy and 'tribal. Reynolds described the vocal style as consisting of "deep, droning alloys of Jim Morrison and Leonard Cohen". Several acts used drum machines downplaying the rhythm's backbeat.
characteristics according to music journalist simon reynolds standard musical fixtures of gothic rock include "scything guitar patterns high-pitched basslines that often usurped the melodic role [and] beats that were either hypnotically dirgelike or tom-tom heavy and 'tribal reynolds described the vocal style as consisting of "deep droning alloys of jim morrison and leonard cohen" several acts used drum machines downplaying the rhythm's backbeat