What The Hell Is Float House In Everyone's Spotify Wrapped?

It's December again, we're into what is set to be a stacked summer of live music. All I Want For Christmas is inescapable, and everybody is spamming their social media with their Spotify Wrapped statistics.

Spotify collects the data for ten months and has analysed our behaviours and listening patterns tracking everything from our favourite artists, playlists and, of course, genres.

Every year more and more questions pop up regarding Spotify's process of collecting data. This year a heap of dance heads are asking, what the hell is Float House?

Spotify has a weird way of breaking down every single genre of music into millions of pieces, and Float House is a reflection of a certain type of dance music that is defined by its mood rather than a strict set of sonic qualities.

In a Spotify playlist by The Sounds Of Spotify titled The Sound Of Float House, a range of familiar artists are represented. It includes the likes of Anthony Naples, Fantastic Man, Leon Vynehall, Priori, Omar S, DJ Python, Ex-Terrestrial, Baltra, Khotin and more.

Float house appears to cover the spaced out, ethereal and minimal brands of house music, one focussed on distinct rhythms and driven by downtempo yet driving percussion sections. Many of the tracks are heavily ambient inspired, toeing the line between club worthy hits and beach worthy unobtrusive progressive numbers.

A few years ago, we also found a definition for another genre that was popping up everywhere titled Escape Room. The genre is not, in fact, a steadily closing in, foreboding and ominous type of music. Instead, it's actually a genre that includes the likes of Shygirl, Cakes Da Killa, Tommy Genesis, Azealia Banks, Rico Nasty, Charli XCX and many more.

In fact, according to the website Every Noise At Once (as reported by The Fader), similar and overlapping genres include hyperpop (SOPHIE, A. G. Cook), art pop (Caroline Polachek, Perfume Genius), trap queen (Kash Doll, Mulatto), deconstructed club (Zora Jones, Lotic), and electropop (Robyn, Sky Ferreria). 

You can check out the Float House playlist below.