The term "cold wave" appeared in the 26 November 1977 issue of UK weekly music paper "Sounds": The caption of its cover picture, showing Kraftwerk's Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider was "New musick: The cold wave". That year, Kraftwerk released "Trans-Europe Express". The term was repeated the following week in "Sounds" by journalist Vivien Goldman, in an article about Siouxsie and the Banshees. In 1977, Siouxsie and the Banshees described their music as "cold, machine-like and passionate at the same time", and "Sounds" magazine prophecised about the band: "sound like a 21st century industrial plant [... Listen to the cold wave roar from the '70s into the '80s".