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Rating: THE REVIEW
Abstract and silent cover for 154 and there couldn't have been a more appropriate one. Just one listen and you understand why.
Watershed masterpiece, symbol of the transition from the '70s to the '80s, manifesto of postpunk, 154 makes it clear once and for all that there would no longer be room for the sonic self-indulgence of progressive and that hard rock had given everything (it would take over 10 years to see it resurrected amalgamated precisely with that punk that had decreed its end).
Punk and the "new wave" that followed had wiped the slate clean. Unheard music, futuristic, often cold, robotic. The voice of a humanity already enslaved by technology, but precisely for this reason its voice filtered by the machine is stronger and more expressive.
Dark atmospheres in "Indirect Enquiries" "Single K.O." deviant pop "The 15th", "Blessed State","Map Ref. 41° N 93° W", apocalyptic visions in "Touching Display" and opening with the beautiful "I Should Have Known Better" for a masterpiece that would influence the entire new wave and beyond.
From this moment on, we enter the contemporary era of rock.
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Wire's album 154 is celebrated as a watershed postpunk masterpiece marking the shift from the 1970s to the 1980s. It rejects progressive and hard rock indulgences, embracing cold, futuristic, and robotic sounds that symbolize a new musical era. With dark atmospheres and apocalyptic themes, the album influenced the entire new wave movement and beyond.Tracklist Lyrics Videos
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Wire are an English rock band formed in London in 1976, widely associated with punk’s late-1970s moment and with the development of post-punk and new wave through albums such as Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154; the band later returned with new material in the 2000s, including Send.11 Reviews
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By Emanuel Fantoni
154 is the Zeitgeist at a low degree of formalization, punk treated in a serial bric-a-brac workshop, a caravanserai of the heteroclite.
It is above all an extreme attempt to give life, through a heart of darkness, to a music balancing between decadent ambitions and alien immensity.
