Review: Wire - Read and Burn 03

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Wire is more a chameleonic entity than a band anymore, with each iteration of their existence defined by a different sound. The Wire of the late 1970s, all angular guitars and cold rhythms, seems largely estranged from the Wire that would emerge nearly a decade later starting with 1987's The Ideal Copy and its lushy-intertwining electronic sounds. And nearly 15 years after that, 2003's crunching, guitar-driven Send. With Read And Burn 03, the third in a series of 21st century musical portraits, Wire returns almost full-circle to the textured guitar sounds of 1979's 154, with songs like the driving, beautiful "Desert...

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