Hurts

I've recently been looking at a duo called Hurts. They are primarily a synthpop artist but I know from my previous research that this genre is closely linked with new wave. Many of their songs can also be classified as new wave. These are probably the most up to date new wave band I have found.

I really like the whole concept of Hurts. The duo is made up of two men; a singer and an instrument player, which is conventional to synthpop groups (according to Wikipedia) since the genre traditionally made heavy use of synthesizers which only require one person to use. Another example of this is Eurythmics who's song Sweet Dreams I have analysed. This type of band would be ideal to me since I only have two people who can definitely be in it (and they're both male) and I think it just an interesting idea. I also realised that whilst Sweet Dreams and Eurythmics pushed boundaries by gender bending, I can say that I have done the same thing since Matthew has long hair (its not much but still).

The Hurts website is also interesting;

Music videos are constantly playing in the background to advertise them and the artist.

 You can see lots of things by scrolling down. All text is in the font of the logo. Emphasis on live shows and album. There is a navbar and social media icons. Pics labeled as photography perhaps to seem more professional.

By clicking the thing next to the logo (or is it part of the logo?) most of the page disappears to reveal the music video. This is really really cool but there is no way for me to replicate it on wix unfortunately.