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