From Loudersound.
Wire have announced their return by revealing a new album and sharing a video for its first single.
Mind Hive will launch on January 24 through the band’s own Pinkflag label and follows 2017’s Silver/Lead.
The video for the first single from the album is Cactused, with the promo featuring footage from Graham Duff’s upcoming career-spanning documentary about the band titled People In A Film which is expected to be released in the spring of next year.
Cactused is described as one of “Mind Hive’s resoundingly pop moments. Colin Newman’s vocal is wide-eyed and wired, with Graham Lewis’ smooth backing vocals thickening the plot.
“Matthew Simms’ effects-heavy guitar work creates a bright web of noise, with the song’s stop/start moments providing a series of precise energy bursts.”
Check out the video for Cactused below along with a teaser for the documentary.
Wire will embark on a UK tour early next year before heading across the Atlantic for a run of North American shows in March.
They’ll then return to London on May 21 for a set at the Islington Assembly Hall.
Wire: Mind Hive
1. Be Like Them
2. Cactused
3. Primed and Ready
4. Off The Beach
5. Unrepentant
6. Shadows
7. Oklahoma
8. Hung
9. Humming
Wire 2020 tour dates
Jan 27: Bristol The Fleece, UK
Jan 28: Manchester Band On The Wall
Jan 29: Birmingham Hare & Hounds, UK
Jan 30: Glasgow The Garage G2, UK
Jan 31: Leeds Brudenell Social Club, UK
Feb 01: Brighton Chalk, UK
Mar 03: Minneapolis Fine Line, MN
Mar 04: Chicago Metro, IL
Mar 06: Nashville Mercy Lounge, TN
Mar 07: Atlanta Variety Playhouse, GA
Mar 09: Washington Union Stage, DC
Mar 10: Philadelphia Underground Arts, PA
Mar 11: Brooklyn Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NY
Mar 12: Brooklyn Music Hall Of Williamsburg, NY
Mar 13: Boston Sinclair, MA
Mar 14: Ottawa Bronson Centre, ON
Mar 15: Toronto Great Hall, ON
May 21: London Islington Assembly Hall, UK
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- Wire - Pink Flag - BioVinyl - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £24.99, $31.49, €29.99 (New Item) (arrived 14-Feb-2025 16:10)on February 16, 2025 at 3:10 pm
WIRE Pink Flag (Critically acclaimed landmark debut album from definitive and highly influential post-punk band Wire, originally released in 1977 and now available with remastered audio pressed on BioVinyl LP. Featuring 21 songsthat are diverse in mood and style, "perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk", according to AllMusic. Picture sleeve with original cover artwork and inner, minus the Harvest logo. Factory sealed andhighly recommended) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Wire - Chairs Missing - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $119.70, €114.00 (Back In Stock) (arrived 05-Feb-2025 17:00)on February 16, 2025 at 3:10 pm
WIRE Chairs Missing (1978 UK first press 15-track LP, the second longplayer [or 'next dose of disease'] from one of Britain's finest post-punk outfits, including the classics, Outdoor Miner & I Am The Fly, complete with the illustrated lyric inner hosued in a matt picture sleeve. The sleeve is clean with some light signs of age wear mostly to the edges with a seam split on the top edge, whilst the vinyl is very clean with little to no signs of play SHSP4093)
- Wire - 154 (One Five Four) - UK - vinyl LP - £60.00, $75.60, €72.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Feb-2025 18:00)on February 16, 2025 at 3:10 pm
WIRE 154 (1979 UK 13-track LP with A1/B2 matrices, the third album by the English Post-Punk legends including the superb 'Map Ref. 41N 93W', picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve is still in the hype stickered open shrinkwrap & the vinylstill looks barely played SHSP4105)
- Wire - Chairs Missing - 1st - EX - UK - vinyl LP - £95.00, $119.70, €114.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Feb-2025 16:53)on February 16, 2025 at 3:10 pm
WIRE Chairs Missing (1978 UK first press 15-track LP, the second longplayer [or 'next dose of disease'] from one of Britain's finest post-punk outfits, including the classics, Outdoor Miner & I Am The Fly, complete with the illustrated lyric inner hosued in a matt picture sleeve. The sleeve is clean with some light signs of age wear mostly to the edges with a seam split on the top edge, whilst the vinyl is very clean with little to no signs of play SHSP4093)
- Wire - 154 (One Five Four) - UK - vinyl LP - £60.00, $75.60, €72.00 (New Item) (arrived 03-Feb-2025 12:36)on February 16, 2025 at 3:10 pm
WIRE 154 (1979 UK 13-track LP with A1/B2 matrices, the third album by the English Post-Punk legends including the superb 'Map Ref. 41N 93W', picture sleeve with lyric inner. The sleeve is still in the hype stickered open shrinkwrap & the vinylstill looks barely played SHSP4105)
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