The most interesting American post-punk groups were Europhiles dislocated from US culture

Evidence

Of the few American groups of any significance in this period, perhaps only Devo and the Meat Puppets took much inspiration from the American landscape (in Devo’s case of course, the US was processed as a thoroughly artificial PKD-US-trash heap of post-industrial detritus). No wave emerged from the rootless cosmopolitanism and transnational nihilism of New York, while in many ways the most interesting American groups — Tuxedomoon and the Residents — were Europhiles. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1014

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts and deepens the prior claim about America’s erasure in post-punk, so overlapping with the reader’s material on rootless transnational artistic formations. — connects to: British post-punk largely erased America from its pop imagination — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1013