 As a dominant commercial force , the revival was relatively short @-@ lived . By 2007 , the initial success of the movement was beginning to subside , leading commentators to discuss its decline as a phenomenon and argue that it had been overtaken by the more musically and emotionally complex music of indie rock bands like Arcade Fire ( which , nevertheless , has been characterized by critics as featuring post @-@ punk influences and sound ) and Death Cab for Cutie . By the end of the decade , many of the bands of the movement had broken up , were on hiatus or had moved into other musical areas , and very few were making significant impact on the charts . Bands that returned to recording and touring in the 2010s included Arctic Monkeys , the Strokes and Interpol . 
