Silver / Lead
As the originators of UK post-punk enter their fifth decade, they write with a natural-born ease—uncomplicated music cruising under lyrics that question progress and our ability to move forward.
No two Pile albums are alike, and that’s what makes hitting play on a new one so exciting. Those first few notes open a door to a new world, one that could only be created by frontman Rick Maguire. With Pile, Maguire is fearless, willing to take country and bluegrass riffs and twist them around noisy post-hardcore and…
This haunted house of a record is built with every creak and memory of albums gone by definitely put in place on purpose.
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As their 16th album demonstrates, Wire always seem to be searching for a certain stylistic innovation to unlock the door to a new musical revolution.
Post-punk mainstays Wire were never likely to rest on their laurels. In the late '70s, they refused to play songs from their triptych of cla...
It's not that Silver/Lead is a bad record. It's not. But what is interesting about it—the atmospheric sounds and rhythms—are relegated to the background, if there at all, and then to only certain sections of songs.
40 years on since their landmark debut album, ‘Pink Flag’, Wire may be forever considered a post-punk group given their stature and influence in the genre.
After mapping out post-punk with their first three albums in the 1970s, and taking various excursions since, Wire’s 16th continues the Indian summer that began Change Becomes Us in 2013.
Wire have nothing to prove, though they could seemingly use a fresh jolt of energy.