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Wire
mind hive
PINK FLAG
With more angles than a Rhombicosidodecahedron, the post-punk architects are in fine fettle here, one moment they’re creating drifting vistas, the next, pummelling us into an exultant thrall.
wire exhibit little inclination to look back - rather they remain resolutely focused on producing music which is smart, vital and defiantly modern. From the bright noise web of “Cactused” to the album centrepiece – the dense and mesmeric 8 minute “Hung” - this is wire at their most compressed yet propulsive. quite how a group that has been operating for such a long period is still able to produce such exciting and essential work is difficult to understand. and yet here we are… “lurid yet skilfully inconclusive music for these precarious times” 4/5 - Mojo