Wire exhibit little inclination to look back - rather they remain resolutely focused on producing music which is smart, vital and defiantly modern. "Mind Hive" is the group's first newly recorded material since 2017's "Silver/Lead". That album garnered rave reviews and career best sales. Yet, if "Silver/Lead" set the bar pretty high, "Mind Hive" seems to have no problem vaulting over it and arrives at a time when Wire are being cited as an influence by yet another generation of bands. A career spanning feature documentary called "People in a Film" is due for release late 2020. Quite how a group that has been operating for such a long period is still able to produce such exciting and essential work is difficult to understand. And yet here we are_ [p] "Be Like Them" is a super-angular composition, utilizing a recently rediscovered Wire lyric from 1977. Colin Newman and Matthew Simms' guitars constantly mesh and diverge, whilst the rhythm section ensures the song prowls forward with an unstoppable menace
