Wire’s First Three Albums Sound More Spacious and Vital Than Ever

Wire’s Pink Flag, Chairs Missing, and 154 have been reissued on excellently pressed vinyl.by Ned LannamannWire first split up in 1980, after they’d recorded three miraculously inventive albums and a stack of 7-inches. Of course, the English band never really “broke up”; its members kept collaborating on various projects, and the Wire name has been resurrected several times over the years. Currently, Wire is an active, ongoing concern—they’ve released seven alb