Nocturnal Koreans

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AlbumApr 22 / 20168 songs, 26m 1s
Post-Punk
Popular
7.0 / 10

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.

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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…

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Wire's latest finds a band still willing to take risks 40 years into an exalted career.

Also includes Wire: Nocturnal Koreans, The Jayhawks: Paging Mr. Proust  and Robin McKelle: The Looking Glass

Discover Nocturnal Koreans by Wire released in 2016. Find album reviews, track lists, credits, awards and more at AllMusic.

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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.

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'Nocturnal Koreans' is the latest instalment in what has been Wire's longest uninterrupted stint as a band, and finds the group revisiting the

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Photo: Kenichi.

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.

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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.