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New wave became a broad name for pop-oriented music that followed punk in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It kept punk’s energy and irreverence while opening toward electronics, style, art and pop hooks. The category was wide enough to include artists as different as XTC, Gary Numan, Elvis Costello, the Pretenders, the Police and the Cars.
Seek Validation Loop take a cold electronic route. Seances stay close to post-punk, while Korine centre synthesizers and pop songwriting. Velvet Mist pull new wave toward goth rock.
In 2026, French Inhaler made a guitar-free synth-wave record. Screensaver connect synths with Australian post-punk, and Generacion Suicida approach it from Los Angeles punk and rock en español.