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There was a common trajectory for the great new wave artists of the '80s. With many of them having come out of punk in the '70s, their beginnings were often more avant-garde than they might be given credit for, visionary collisions of post-punk and various dance music forms and pioneering electronic music in the lineage of Krautrock. When people talk about new wave as somehow being glossier and apolitical and genteel compared to the punk movement that preceded it, they're not only eliding over the fact that plenty of these artists grappled with the bleak, Cold War atmosphere of the times, but that the sort of technological and genre experiments that were occurring in their music was, and still sounds, forward-thinking.
