Mind Hive

Rolling Stone reviews Wire's new album, 'Mind Hive.'

Youngsters take note, the past can be your friend.

‘No Love Lost’ sums up the band politics in Wire so accurately, you would be forgiven for thinking it’s their song. “It can be

Wire treat successes and failures just the same – and here they are with Mind Hive, their seventeenth LP, a full-fat hooky pop album. Really.

Even on their debut, Pink Flag, Wire were winking at their constant rejection of nostalgia.

<strong>(Pink Flag)</strong><br>The band have added taut melodies, lush electronics and lyrics of prickling anxiety to the distorted guitar chaos: this is such a good album