Every Noise at Once: The Most Addictive Website You Never Knew You Needed

Every so often, the internet coughs up something that makes you forget you were only supposed to be online for five minutes. Every Noise at Once is exactly that. It’s a living, breathing map of music genres, not just the obvious ones, but thousands of hyper-specific rabbit holes you didn’t even know existed.

You’ll start out safe: click “indie pop” and you’ll nod along, smug in your musical literacy. But five minutes later you’re knee-deep in “Escape Room,” “Vapor Twitch,” and “Deep Filthstep,” and you’re questioning not only your taste but your very identity. It’s like Google Maps, except every road leads to another festival you weren’t invited to.

The site was built by Glenn McDonald, a data wizard who once worked at Spotify’s Echo Nest. He used algorithms to place each genre based on its density, energy, and organic feel. Click a genre and you get an instant audio sample, a dangerous feature if you value your productivity.

The best part? It’s overwhelming in the most glorious way. Instead of Spotify spoon-feeding you the same “chill vibes” playlist for the 400th time, here you’re dropped into the wild frontier of human creativity. Some genres make sense, others feel like dares, and a few will make you laugh out loud. (“Shiver Pop”? Really?)

The site isn’t updated anymore thanks to corporate layoffs, but that only adds to the charm. It’s frozen in time, a snapshot of the world’s musical chaos before AI inevitably invents “Post-Quantum Lo-Fi” or “Cave Troll Techno.”

So if you’re bored of your playlists or just want to explore humanity’s bizarre obsession with naming things, Every Noise at Once is your next guilty pleasure. Go ahead. Open it. You’ll thank me later.