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 - UK - vinyl LP - £18.00, $23.22, €21.42 (New Item) (arrived 11-Jul-2024 13:50)on July 27, 2024 at 7:25 am
WIRE Pink Flag (2018 UK remastered issue of their debut 1977 21-track LP on Heavyweight Vinyl, including Reuters, Three Girl Rhumba, Ex Lion Tamer, Lowdown, Mannequin & more. Comes housed in a deluxe picture sleeve with the lyric card inner. The sleeve shows minimal wear & the vinyl appears barely played PF11LP) #Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time
- Wire - Snakedrill EP - UK - 12" vinyl - £10.00, $12.90, €11.90 (New Item) (arrived 20-Jun-2024 15:23)on July 27, 2024 at 7:25 am
WIRE Snakedrill (1986 UK 4-track 12" vinyl EP, including A Serious Of Snakes, Drill, Advantage Height & Up To The Sun, picture sleeve 12MUTE53)
- Wire - Pink Flag - BioVinyl - Sealed - UK - vinyl LP - £19.99, $25.79, €23.79 (New Item) (arrived 31-May-2024 14:10)on July 27, 2024 at 7:25 am
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 songs that 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 - Mannequin - P/S - EX - UK - 7" vinyl - £195.00, $251.55, €232.05 (New Item) (arrived 17-May-2024 14:56)on July 27, 2024 at 7:25 am
WIRE Mannequin (Rare 1977 UK 3-track 7" vinyl single with intact four-prong centre, also including Feeling Called Love and 12XU, picture sleeve. The sleeve shows very little wear & the vinyl shows just a little dulling in colour ['misting'], probably caused by the enthusiasm for recycled vinyl at the time with light foxing to the label, but otherwise few signs of play HAR5144)
- Wire - On Returning 1977-1979 - UK - vinyl LP - £45.00, $58.05, €53.55 (New Item) (arrived 13-May-2024 09:50)on July 27, 2024 at 7:25 am
WIRE On Returning 1977-1979 (1989 UK 22-track vinyl LP compilation, which covers material from Wire's classic post-punk albums Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154. Includes the classics 'Three Girl Rhumbra', 'Ex Lion Tamer' & 'I Am The Fly'. Picture sleeve with inner notes written by Jon Savage. The sleeve shows minimal wear with its vintage price sticker in place and the vinyl looking barely played. SHSP4127)
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