I Hate to quote The New Yorker again, but it *is* a highly respected publication. According to reviewer Anwen Crawford,

"As an answer to [singer-songwriter Jenny Hval's own question on the first track of her last album], 'What is soft dick rock?' [her new album] presents a kind of experimental folk music, which resists the rhythmic and melodic efficiencies...of chart pop in favor of something slower and more irregular, with few hooks or choruses."