Help me classify this style of music...

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Posted by Paradox Lost on Jan-09-2014 13:31:

Help me classify this style of music...

We've all heard this revivalist sound pop up at one time and place or another since, what, 2007? �but I've never quite gotten a handle on what genre of music this is made out to be, exactly:

�what is it that I'm listening to, here? 'Indie Dance?' 'Nu Disco?" 'Neo New Wave?' Yeah, I know it's the musical component to that broader trend of nostalgically repackaging all things 80's, but I'm looking for help with some genre tags, here.

Posted by Alero50 on Jan-09-2014 13:58:

Synth pop, New wave?

Posted by Paradox Lost on Jan-09-2014 14:14:

Help me classify this style of music...

So this is nothing more nuanced than simply being modern synthpop (and 'modern', as in 'produced this decade').

Posted by Sykonee on Jan-09-2014 15:22:

First one sounds like Depeche Mode. Second one a little like futurepop. Third one... shoegaze-dance? Whatever, it's all essentially still new wave / darkwave / synth-pop. Genre's got enough of a lineage to have modern musicians making the stuff un-ironically.

Posted by Paradox Lost on Feb-23-2014 06:18:

So are we still just talking synthpop, here?

http://crozet.bandcamp.com/track/we-can-see-it