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This is kind of embarrassing but I still cannot properly tell what the difference between post punk & darkwave is despite listening to goth music for years now. I see so many bands labeled under both so I cannot really tell what is what 😅 How do you guys identify between the genres?
Anything with 'wave' in the genre title usually has electronic synth-heavy elements. Like New Wave (Kim Wilde, Berlin, A Flock of Seagulls, etc) , Vaporwave, Synthwave, etc. So if you hear a lot of synths you're listening to Dark Wave. If it doesn't have a lot of synth you're definitely listening to a genre that doesn't have -wave in the title. This is one of my special interests.