Wire "Nine Sevens" (RSD 2025) & Betrayal" Perhaps the greatest pop band

Perhaps the greatest pop band that you may never have heard of

Kay's strength is doing so much with so little

Branden Cook and Ncuti Gather

" Meanwhile

Rise Against

Wire "Nine Sevens" (RSD 2025) & Betrayal" Perhaps the greatest pop bandCombining the run of early singles with more obscure later period tracks underlines the strength and depth that Wire had. This is pop art as art pop and an exploration of the blank canvas of pop culture and how far that canvas can be stretched, going from three minute constructs to ambient washes. The 7 single was always the ultimate artefact and statement, with the A side being the band momentarily paused in time and distilled and freeze framed into