- How does garage rock differ from punk rock?
- In stance. Punk carries an explicit oppositional and political position, running faster and angrier. Garage rock has far less manifesto in it — closer to a group of people making noise purely for fun, with blues and early rock underneath and a rhythm that swings more.
- How do I prompt for garage roughness?
- Describe recording conditions rather than the genre name: "mono-style recording, room microphone, drums close and smeared, untuned vocal with no overdubs, slight overall distortion." Those concrete production limits produce the texture far better than naming the style.
- Doesn't the roughness read as unprofessional?
- In this context roughness is the professionalism. It signals immediacy and truth — a group of people playing in a room right now. If you need institutional authority or refinement this is the wrong style, but for sincerity and energy it beats any polished production.
