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Release Date: 13 April 2015, Pinkflag

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Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Matthew Simms and Robert Grey a.k.a Wire is a band with a long and rich history in music going back to 1977 when the first studio album ‘Pink Flag’ was released with the memorable pink flag on the sleeve. Wire is a band in whose early music one could find elements of indie rock, post punk, minimal synth, new wave and electro clash genres that emerged later in music history. Even with ‘Pink Flag’ the band surpassed the limits of punk music from which it had emerged. Wire have been inventive on what concerns the arrangement and the instruments that make up their sound. In each album, different instruments, different arrangements and various vocal styles have been combined. No album has been identical to the previous ones since 1977 and the band has even used uncommon instruments such as cor anglais (i.e. a type of English horn) in their albums.

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