[2020-01-31] Wire "Mind Hive" (Pinkflag)

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2019 2:58 pm

Description
Since their inception Wire have maintained a reputation for creating music that stretches the rock form whilst simultaneously editing it down to its essence. With their gift for crafting songs that perfectly balance experimentation and accessibility, Wire were recently hailed by the Quietus as "one of the most consistent British bands of all time." Yet Wire exhibit little inclination to look back or trade on past glories, rather they remain resolutely focused on producing music which is smart, vital and defiantly modern.

Mind Hive is the group's first newly recorded material since 2017's stellar Silver/Lead. That album garnered rave reviews ("Some of the best tunes they've done" - The Guardian) and career best sales. Yet, if Silver/Lead set the bar pretty high, Mind Hive seems to have no problem vaulting over it - a supremely confident album featuring some of the band's most upbeat moments of recent years.

Wire's back catalogue is of course studded with influential epoch defining works. Last year saw the reissue of their ground-breaking first three albums: Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154. These were voted amongst the top reissues of the year (Rolling Stone at no.10, Uncut at no.12 and Select at no.3). And now Mind Hive arrives at a time when Wire are being cited as an influence by yet another generation of bands. They are also the subjects of a career spanning feature documentary called People in a Film due for release late 2020.

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; Mind Hive is the most masterful 35 minutes of post-punk you will hear this year.

Tracklist
1. Be Like Them
2. Cactused
3. Primed And Ready
4. Off The Beach
5. Unrepentant
6. Shadows
7. Oklahoma
8. Hung
9. Humming

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07Z7531ZW/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Tue Oct 22, 2019 3:01 pm

Wire Drops Serene New Song ‘Cactused’

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/musi ... sed-902189

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:20 pm

The album has been pushed back a week, to January 31st. In the meantime we have another preview track to listen to, "Primed & Ready":

Glenn S. · 30 Oct 2006

It's great to see that these guys are still at it. Makes me feel a little better about getting older myself.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Jan 10, 2020 5:46 pm

Glenn S. wrote:

It's great to see that these guys are still at it. Makes me feel a little better about getting older myself.

Colin Newman said this recently about the group's work ethic:

Quote:

With Wire, we approach things as if we were a band in our twenties or thirties, and we do albums quite often. We tour as regularly as we can, and we don't get offered those great festival headliners because we're not playing the classical albums. We might not be playing huge venues, but we make it work.

Lawrence Talbot · 31 Jan 2007

Really enjoying this album. Very nice review at AllMusic.

https://www.allmusic.com/album/mind-hive-mw0003330334

The Human Top · **Joined:** 29 Jan 2011 **Posts:** 1114

Really, really loving it too--one of their better ones, I think. I like how it's got a very clean sound, less "fuzzy" than "Silver/Lead" but also feels more bleak and edgy. I'm a huge fan of when they get slow and minimal and there are a bunch of songs like that here.

I've been listening on youtube but have pre-ordered the vinyl from Bullmoose and will play it asap when it arrives in the mail. I just wish the tour hit Seattle!

[2020-01-31] Wire "Mind Hive" (Pinkflag)

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