{"id":900,"date":"2020-01-26T15:16:30","date_gmt":"2020-01-26T15:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/?p=900"},"modified":"2020-01-26T15:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-01-26T15:16:31","slug":"mind-hive-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garyhollingsbee.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/26\/mind-hive-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Mind Hive (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tremendous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wire’s new album is atmospheric. Autumnal. Claustrophobic. Menacing even. It’s like the nights drawing in. For me, it’s very much a brutal soundtrack to the period we’re currently living through. Droning guitars and dark-ambient synths (developing from their 2016 album, Nocturnal Koreans<\/em> and 2017’s Silver\/Lead). Newman and Lewis sing about Russian oligarchs, populism, state-sanctioned mass-killing, the hopelessness of conformity, those left washed up on the margins.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wire have always drawn heavily on a cut-up, surrealistic approach to lyrics, often mixing the personal and societal. According to bassist\/singer Graham Lewis about the song Primed & Ready<\/em>, \u201cThe lyric\/text for this song could be read as a series of questions, set in 2017,.. Who could have known the answers would be, in no particular order \u2026 Liverpool FC, me, Boris the Spider, 67, Lieutenant Colonel.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The opening track, Be Like Them<\/em>, seems to be a commentary on the way media manipulates: “They play it all for you \/ They explain it all to you… \/ Demanding you too \/ Be like them”. It’s a clear warning about the hive mind culture that seems all-too-readily to threaten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I like the entire album. Tracks I particularly like are: Off the Beach<\/em>, Be Like Them<\/em>, Cactused<\/em>, Primed and Ready<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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