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Change Becomes Us

Wire

Change Becomes Us

Album number thirteen from the London post-punk veterans features songs built on rough ideas from early live shows

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7.4

Label
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UK Release date
25/03/2013
US Release date
26/03/2013
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  1. 8.2 |   Pitchfork

    Their 21st century incarnation has built some of their most fetching songs from some of the most ragged and jagged ideas to come from their younger selves
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  2. 8.0 |   Mojo

    They remain, as ever, tightly wound. Print edition only

  3. 8.0 |   Loud And Quiet

    It’s an album that doesn’t sit still. Much like the group themselves
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  4. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Because they write interesting but still enjoyable songs, as they do consistently on Change Becomes Us, they make their music worth coming back to again and again
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  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    New guitarist Matthew Simms has refreshed Wire's sound. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   Q

    On this career highlight they deliver their memorandum as effectively as at any time in their 30-odd years of operation. Print edition only

  7. 8.0 |   musicOMH

    Wire are still, five decades in, showing how it should be done
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  8. 8.0 |   All Music

    Found a way to place the intensity of its early days into a more modern context
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  9. 8.0 |   PopMatters

    A band like Wire isn’t about repeating history, but making more of it
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  10. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Despite the songs' far-off beginnings, Change Becomes Us is like an aggressive, steroid-pumped continuation of the band's excellent 2011 album Red Barked Tree
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  11. 8.0 |   Spin

    They've turned creaky blueprints into jumping-off points for wholly re-imagined pop tunes
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  12. 7.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    Even after more than 35 years in the trenches, Wire’s diverse, trailblazing brand of art rock still sounds remarkably current
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  13. 6.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Despite many excellent tunes, a continual emphasis on effects makes the album slightly grating in parts, feeling a bit like a Wire and Frampton Come Alive!
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  14. 6.0 |   Blurt

    Hopefully this uncertainty means that their next phase is on the way
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  15. 5.0 |   NME

    Lacks Wire's usual focus
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