Performer
Dead Can Dance
Style
Ambient
New Age
Dark Wave
Post-punk
Darkwave
ethereal wave
neoclassical dark wave
Neoclassical darkwave
gothic
Country
Australia
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- Listeners: 1
Performer description
Dead Can Dance are a British-Australian neoclassical darkwave band founded in Melbourne in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard before the pair relocated to London the following year. They signed with independent label 4AD and were initially associated with the United Kingdom's gothic scene before developing a style that incorporated European medieval and Renaissance music traditions alongside ambient pop, darkwave, and world music elements. Beginning with their 1985 album Spleen and Ideal, the band helped to pioneer the neoclassical darkwave subgenre.
