WIRE - 154 LP Avantgarde whose cynicism has grown out

whose cynicism has grown out of disappointed idealism

It's music that is intensely personal and kept close to the vest

Hamid Drake - drums

LOLLI / Doc Geo

WIRE - 154 LP Avantgarde whose cynicism has grown out1979's 154 represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest released 70's triptych and was the first Wire album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies. Thus it represented the point when the British 'pop culture establishment' publicly recognised Wire's primacy. "154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble," wrote Nick Kent in the NME, "Wire are achieving a lot of things other and more recognised