WIRE: 154 Vinyl LP Licensed Merch Author Hugh Hodges presents the

Author Hugh Hodges presents the era's social and political landscape through a series of "mixtapes" or playlists

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Armaggedon Man

The riffs implode and the changes are impossible to follow without a map that probably leads somewhere unpleasant

WIRE: 154 Vinyl LP Licensed Merch Author Hugh Hodges presents theWire's third album in three years and the one where they stopped sounding like anyone but themselves. 154 (1979) takes the angular minimalism of Pink Flag and the textured expansion of Chairs Missing and pushes further into electronic atmosphere, found sound, and structural strangeness. Named for the number of shows the band played that year, it's a record that documents a band actively dismantling its own formula. "The 15th" and "Map Ref. 41N 93W"