Nocturnal Koreans
This eight-song mini-LP from the veteran post-punks includes tracks that didn’t fit on their self-titled 2015 album and is marked by an unsettling, dead-of-night calm.
The eight songs on Wire’s Nocturnal Koreans emerged from the same studio sessions that produced the band’s last full-length, 2015’s bracing WIRE. However, vocalist-guitarist Colin Newman makes it very clear that these are no mere leftovers: Instead, songs ended up the raw material for intensive studio sculpting that…
Wire's latest finds a band still willing to take risks 40 years into an exalted career.
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Discover Nocturnal Koreans by Wire released in 2016. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.
2016 has been a bit of an oddity to date. How many other years can you think of where, even only at the quarter-year mark, so many of the best albums have been released by artists over 60? David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and John Cale are now joined by Wire.
'Nocturnal Koreans' is the latest instalment in what has been Wire's longest uninterrupted stint as a band, and finds the group revisiting the
Wire can’t be expected to repeat the 1977-9 burst of post-punk innovation that saw gave us Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154.
Wire has been re-inventing artsy post-punk into whatever it wants it to be for nearly four decades.
Nocturnal KoreansArtist: WireGenre: AlternativeLabel: Pink FlagAfter almost four decades in the business, you might imagine that a band like Wire have said all that needs to be said.
CD: Wire - Nocturnal Koreans. Fifteenth album from respected post-punk perennials. Review by Thomas H Green.