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.
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
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
CD: Wire - Nocturnal Koreans. Fifteenth album from respected post-punk perennials. Review by Thomas H Green.