Genre story · Experimental
Future Wave
A forward-looking electronic or post-punk label whose meaning depends on the artist who uses it.
Future Wave has no widely accepted, continuous genre history in the way that New Wave, Synth-Pop or Cold Wave do. It has appeared as a promotional or editorial description for music borrowing synthesizer rhythms, post-punk guitar ideas and contemporary Electronic production. A particular band may use it to signal an imagined future of new wave, but that intention is not a shared musical genealogy.
On IDIOTEQ
In this archive the label appears on a single 2016 interview with THE FANTASTIC PLASTICS, introduced as a sci-fi pop act and described as a Brooklyn-based New Wave, synth punk and electro pop duo.
Listening context only
- 1981the Human LeagueDare1981, historical synth-pop.
- 2001Ladytron604
- 2011John MausWe Must Become the Pitiless Censors of OurselvesThese are not claimed as Future Wave releases.