WIRE: 154 Vinyl LP At The Gates industrial textures

industrial textures

It serves as a definitive "Greatest Hits" of sorts

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While many in the genre seek only to drown the listener in misery

WIRE: 154 Vinyl LP At The Gates industrial texturesWire's third album in three years and the one where they stopped sounding like anyone but themselves. 154 (1979) takes the angular minimalism of Pink Flag and the textured expansion of Chairs Missing and pushes further into electronic atmosphere, found sound, and structural strangeness. Named for the number of shows the band played that year, it's a record that documents a band actively dismantling its own formula. "The 15th" and "Map Ref. 41N 93W"