Post-punk revival

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The post-punk revival is a development in alternative rock of the late 20th and early 21st centuries in which bands take inspiration from the original sounds and aesthetics of post-punk of the late 1970s.^[1]

New Wave music of the 1980s has also influenced the post-punk revival.

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Originally, the term "post-punk" was coined to describe those groups which in the late 1970s and early 1980s took punk and started to experiment with more challenging musical structures, lyrical themes, and a self-consciously art-based image, while retaining punk's initial iconoclastic stance, such as Public Image Ltd., Gang of Four, and Joy Division. At the turn of the century, the term "post-punk" began to appear in the music press again, with a number of critics reviving the label to describe a new set of bands that shared some of the aesthetics of the original post-punk era. The Rapture, Interpol, The Killers, and Franz Ferdinand were the first commercially successful projects to revive media interest in the movement.^[2] This second wave of post-punk incorporates elements of dance music and genres that are part of the dance punk movement in much the same way that the original post-punk movement was influenced by the Krautrock, Dub, and Disco music of the 1970s. Music critic Simon Reynolds notes that many of these bands draw particular influence from the more angular strain of post-punk such as Wire and Gang of Four.^[3] However, other post-punk revivalists such as Interpol and Editors are more clearly indebted to the atmospheric wing of post-punk epitomized by Joy Division and Echo & the Bunnymen.

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[edit] External links

• New Wave/Post-Punk Revival at Allmusic