New Romantic

"Manafon" has more in common with the music of Edgar Varèse, John Cage and Morton Feldman than the so-called New Romantic pop with which Mr. Sylvian was associated some 35 years ago.

In a Sylvian Groove 2009

It was then they launched the Pirates collection that became the template for the New Romantic look.

The Saturday interview: Vivienne Westwood 2011

We no longer live in a world where New Musical Express and Rolling Stone codify the new sounds and new styles into neat definitions like punk and New Romantic for the kids to fix their tribal allegiances.

Save The Hipster! 2010

No sign of that New Romantic she fell in love with.

Suspicion 2010

We no longer live in a world where New Musical Express and Rolling Stone codify the new sounds and new styles into neat definitions like punk and New Romantic for the kids to fix their tribal allegiances.

Save The Hipster! 2010

We'd all just travel, like New Romantic noblemen from Con to Con to Con, every weekend, scribbling stories to fuel the plane tickets and hotel rooms.

After WFC... Sleeping in... 2009

But over the course of 30 years, starting as a teenager with the New Romantic band Japan and through a series of acclaimed solo albums, David Sylvian has successfully navigated the musical opposites of improvisation and composition, tonality and atonality.

David Sylvian and the Mysterious Sound of Inspiration 2009

Thankfully no "Switch it off" after the "Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound" line.

Archive 2008-05-01 Dave Bara 2008

Thankfully no "Switch it off" after the "Like some New Romantic looking for the TV sound" line.

Duran Duran Live at the WaMu Theater, 4/30/08 Dave Bara 2008

There are others that make the list from time to time, but all of them are in this sort of dark, brooding, New Romantic style, much as I initially conceived SCW.

Archive 2007-06-01 Dave Bara 2007