Well Ninjas… here we are in the first week of April, sequestered indoors with ample time to expand our sonic palates, and introduce new artists. And while I wish this writer’s return to TMN was under more optimistic circumstances, here we are nonetheless. Thus, to help pass the time and hopefully share some newer artists with our readers during our ‘stay-at-home’ mandate, it’s time to share a genre(s), which have helped incite a musical reawakening worth writing about.
Categorized over time as Darkwave as early as the late 70’s/early 80’s with artists like Iron Curtain, Lives of Angels, and even Gary Numan & Depeche Mode, to the contemporary genre tags of Coldwave, Goth-Pop & Gravewave; the concept -with roots emerging out of post-punk and New-Wave- of pairing simple pop arrangements with minor keys, lo-fi percussion kits, and heaps of reverb has managed to permeate throughout the landscape of alternative music for nearly five decades now.
