Darkwave

Darkwave is a broad style of music that emerged alongside New Wave and Post-Punk across Europe in the late 1970s and early 1980s, particularly in the United Kingdom. It is characterized by a dark, introspective and sorrowful atmosphere reminiscent of Gothic Rock, and heavily utilizes Electronic influences, particularly Synthpop. Although the genre started as a style of post-punk, artists would eventually work outside of Rock idioms making greater use of synthesizers and drum machines, and even adding elements of Post-Industrial and Western Classical Music into their works.