The wave (music)

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The wave or the new wave of post-hardcore (TNWOPH) was a loosely-defined collective of post-hardcore bands and the movement that spawned around them. Taking place between roughly 2008 and 2015, it was founded by Defeater, La Dispute, Make Do and Mend, Pianos Become the Teeth and Touché Amoré. The movement was a reaction against the commerciality of the pop screamo sound, which had dominated the post-hardcore scene for much of the 2000s. In response, bands in the wave embraced the influence of screamo, melodic hardcore and post-rock, as well as literary forms, often spoken word. By 2012, the wave had come to encompass a spectrum of bands that were similar to, influenced by or friends with the founding acts of the movement. This included contemporary screamo bands State Faults, the Saddest Landscape, Frameworks and Caravels, bands also in the emo revival such as Balance and Composure, Title Fight and Tigers Jaw, blackgaze band Deafheaven, and Britain's UKswell movement, which included the...

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