Mind Hive


Mind Hive is the seventeenth studio album from English art punk band Wire, released on 24 January 2020. The release was preceded by a music video for "Cactused" made up of clips from the forthcoming documentary People in a Film and streaming audio for "Primed and Ready". They also announced a brief tour of North America to promote the recording.

Critical reception

Review aggregator AnyDecentMusic? assess the critical consensus as a 7.7 out of 10. Brooklyn Vegan praised the album saying Wire "have honed a sound that pulls from all periods of the band." Alexis Petridis of The Guardian gave the album four out of five stars and said, "If Mind Hive were the debut by a hot new band, you suspect what's left of the music press would be doing their nut over it."

Track listing

All songs written by Colin Newman, except "Oklahoma" by Graham Lewis. All lyrics by Graham Lewis, except "Cactused" and "Unrepentant" by Colin Newman.
  1. "Be Like Them" – 3:51
  2. "Cactused" – 3:35
  3. "Primed and Ready" – 2:44
  4. "Off the Beach" – 2:23
  5. "Unrepentant" – 5:01
  6. "Shadows" – 2:46
  7. "Oklahoma" – 3:08
  8. "Hung" – 7:54
  9. "Humming" – 3:30

    Personnel

Wire
Additional personnel