CHANGE BECOMES US
Wire (Southbound)
Three and a half decades of arthouse punk is tough to sustain so the Londoners dipped into their past for the basis of their 13th studio offering.
But the small nuggets mined from their late 70s seam of peculiarity get the type of reworking that reminds you that Wire are both the band of Heartbeat and Eardrum Buzz – and aren’t afraid to warp a track with poppy enthusiasm or Eno melancholy.
Weird, of course, can’t go out of fashion and Wire are one of the great geek-weird bands – it’s a truly wonderful thing to realise that a four-piece pushing pensionable age can recycle 35-year-old tracks and still sound oddly contemporary.
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