Wire Announce New Album Nocturnal Koreans, Share Title Track

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On April 22, Wire will release a mini-album titled Nocturnal Koreans on Wire’s Pinkflag label. It follows their self-titled LP released last year. That record’s sessions were the basis for the new record, according to the press release. Listen to the title track above, and see their European tour dates below.

Speaking about the song in a press release, guitarist Matthew Simms says, “It’s a great snapshot of touring America and when I hear or play that song, it reminds me of the many weird and wonderful times, places and people that cross your path.”

Newman said of the mini-album:

The WIRE album was quite respectful of the band, and Nocturnal Koreans is less respectful of the band—or, more accurately, it’s the band being less respectful to itself—in that it’s more created in the studio, rather than recorded basically as the band played it, which was mostly the case with WIRE. A general rule for this record was: any trickery is fair game, if it makes it sound better.

Wire:

03-10 Lewes, England – Con Club
03-11 Bath, England – Komedia
03-12 Manchester, England – Cosmosis Festival
0422-24 Prestatyn, Wales – ATP
05-27-29 Madrid, Spain – GetMAD! Festival

Watch Wire perform “Comet” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2013:

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