New wave isan umbrella term for various pop rock styles from the late 1970s and mid-1980s. Its sound incorporates elements such as drums, synthesizers, keyboards, and other instruments, often improvised to produce sounds compatible with electronic music . It is also a musical style with links to punk and certain rock genresof the #1970s. Initially, as with later gothic rock , new wave remained largely analogous to post-punk before branching out into a distinctly identifiable genre. It subsequent