Mind Hive

Mind Hive is the seventeenth studio album from English art punk band Wire, released on 24 January 2020.[3] The release was preceded by a music video for "Cactused" made up of clips from the forthcoming documentary People in a Film[4] and streaming audio for "Primed and Ready".[5] They also announced a brief tour of North America to promote the recording.[5]

Mind Hive
Studio album by
Wire
Released24 January 2020 (2020-01-24)
Recorded2019
Studio
  • Rockfield Studios
  • Swim Studios
Genre
Length34:52
LabelPinkflag
Wire chronology
Silver/Lead
(2017)		 Mind Hive
(2020)		 10:20
(2020)

Critical reception
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
AnyDecentMusic?7.7/10[6]
Metacritic84/100[7]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[8]
DIY[9]
The Guardian[10]
PopMatters[2]
Rolling Stone[1]

Mind Hive was met with positive reviews from critics noted at review aggregator Metacritic. This release received a weighted average score of 84 out of 100, based on 10 reviews.[7] Review aggregator AnyDecentMusic? assess the critical consensus as a 7.7 out of 10.[6] Brooklyn Vegan praised the album saying Wire "have honed a sound that pulls from all periods of the band."[11] 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."[10]

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

  • Graham Lewis – bass guitar, backing vocals on "Be Like Them" and "Cactused", synthesizer on "Oklahoma", vocals on "Oklahoma" and "Humming"
  • Robert Grey – drums, cymbal on "Unrepentant"
  • Colin Newman – vocals, guitar; keyboards; acoustic guitar on "Be Like Them", "Off the Beach", "Unrepentant", and "Shadows"; 12-string acoustic guitar on "Off the Beach" and "Unrepentant"; effects on "Hung"; stylophone on "Hung"; tenor guitar on "Be Like Them" and "Unrepentant"
  • Matthew Simms – guitar; synths on "Be Like Them", "Primed and Ready", "Unrepentant", "Oklahoma", and "Hung"; effects on "Hung"; organ on "Humming"

Additional personnel

  • Sean Douglas – organ on "Humming"
  • Harald Pettersson – hurdy gurdy on "Oklahoma"
  • Skye Mastering – mastering

Charts
Sales chart performance for Mind Hive
Chart (2020) Peak
position
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[12] 155
Scottish Albums (OCC)[13] 22
UK Albums (OCC)[14] 82
gollark: Even if you reverse-engineer where it gets the hashes from and how it operates, by the nature of the thing you couldn't work out what was being detected without already having samples of it in the first place.
gollark: Anyway, the generality of this solution and the fact that they'll probably keep the exact details private for "security"-through-obscurity reasons also means that, as I have written here (https://osmarks.net/osbill/) in a blog post tangentially mentioning it, someone could just feed it hashes for, say, anti-government memes and find out who is saving those.
gollark: Although I suppose that *someone* probably keeps the originals around in case they have to change the hashing algorithm.
gollark: It's trickier on images (see how PyroBot does it...) but not impossible. (since you want moderately fuzzy matching, unlike SHA256 and such, which will produce an entirely different hash if a single bit is flipped)
gollark: Through the magic of cryptography, you can condense arbitrarily big files down to a fixed-length fingerprint and check if that matches, with basically-zero false positive risk.

See also

References
  1. Grow, Kory (24 January 2020). "Wire Narrate Dark Times Over Art-Punk Maximalism on Mind Hive". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  2. Griffiths, Peter (24 January 2020). "Wire's Mind Hive Shows the Post-Punk Band at Their Inimitable Best". PopMatters. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  3. Ruiz, Matthew Ismael (22 October 2019). "Wire Announce New Album Mind Hive, Share New Song 'Cactused'". Pitchfork. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. Eede, Christian (22 October 2019). "Wire Announce New Album, Mind Hive". The Quietus. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  5. Grow, Kory (8 January 2020). "Hear Wire's New-Wavey Song 'Primed and Ready'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
  6. "Mind Hive by Wire Reviews". AnyDecentMusic?. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
  7. "Mind Hive by Wire Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
  8. Phares, Heather. "Mind Hive". AllMusic. Retrieved January 26, 2020.
  9. Doherty, Jack (24 January 2020). "Wire – Mind Hive". DIY. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. Petridis, Alexis (24 January 2020). "Wire: Mind Hive Review – Sinewy, Stripped-Back, Fearful – and Beautiful". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  11. Pearis, Bill (24 January 2020). "Bill's Indie Basement (1/24): The Week in Classic Indie, College Rock, and More". Brooklyn Vegan. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  12. "Ultratop.be – Wire – Mind Hive" (in Dutch). Hung Medien. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  13. "Official Scottish Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
  14. "Official Albums Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
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