{"id":1976,"date":"2011-03-20T15:43:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=1976"},"modified":"2011-03-20T15:43:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T22:43:24","slug":"wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/03\/wire\/","title":{"rendered":"WIRE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WIRE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1977\" title=\"WIRE-M-Review-JanFeb2011\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WIRE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WIRE-M-Review-JanFeb2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/WIRE-M-Review-JanFeb2011-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>W<\/strong><strong>IRE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong><em>Red Barked Tree<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Pink Flag]<\/p>\n<p>Wire\u2019s angular omnipresence has long lurked in the deep corners of the English rock psyche. Morphing from the most art-damaged of the early punks to the most punk-damaged of the post-punk art-rockers, the band has spent 30 years off and on watching half-shed shards of its DNA pop up at intervals, and now even their descendants in the Feelies or the Pixies are old enough to go on reunion tours. While crashers like \u201cTwo Minutes\u201d and \u201cA Flat Tent\u201d show they\u2019ve aged with edge, <em>Red Barked Tree<\/em> is notable for its accessibility. Unfolding at a measured pace, the album often features shimmery guitars and rounded vocals that would live on the old-school side of today\u2019s indie rock street. All else being equal, it\u2019s even a bit (gulp) conservative. Still, 12 albums in, the basic integrity of the institution remains intact and strangely noble. \u2013Jeff Leven<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRE Red Barked Tree [Pink Flag] Wire\u2019s angular omnipresence has long lurked in the deep corners of the English rock psyche. Morphing from the most art-damaged of the early punks to the most punk-damaged of the post-punk art-rockers, the band has spent 30 years off and on watching half-shed shards of its DNA pop up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[1511,196,1059,1509,1508,1510,1507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1978,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions\/1978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}