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- Summary: The latest full-length studio release for the British post-punk band features an eight-minute-long track.
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- Record Label: Pink Flag
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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Positive: 13 out of 15
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Mixed: 2 out of 15
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Negative: 0 out of 15
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Feb 3, 2020Mind Hive is concise yet full of restless intelligence, musical ideas and willingness to push boundaries. Taut, tense, not a wasted note, moments of great beauty, 35 minutes of Wire contains enough to fuel a multitude of pretenders.
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Jan 24, 2020There is pleasing consistency to Mind Hive and its immediate precursors, Silver/Lead and Nocturnal Koreans, though this is a harder-edged record than either of those. Nevertheless, while there's still no way to know where they'll go next, you can guarantee it'll be interesting, and maybe that's the highest compliment you can pay a band.
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Jan 24, 2020The issues Wire grapple with are evergreen, and as they persevere in the face of stupidity and apathy, Mind Hive's unflinching, poetic songs prove maturity is a weapon they wield just as deftly as outrage.
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Jan 22, 2020Mind Hive is especially groundbreaking. In fact, several of its best tracks (the restless, motorik drive of Cactused and the jagged, staccato bursts of the menacing, 154-ish Be Like Them) quite openly flirt with familiarity. Yet, as always seems to be the case with this crew, these tunes are invested with enviable reserves of contemporary energy which ensure they’re served up fresh and minus the merest hint of parody.
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UncutJan 22, 2020Mind Hive follows a more varied set of strategies that yield both the dreamy haze of "Unrepentant" and the punishing grind of the eight-minute "Hung." [Feb 2020, p.35]
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Q MagazineJan 22, 2020A serious sustaining of quality. [Feb 2020, p.122]
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Jan 30, 2020Mind Hive is middling. Some tracks are engaging and perk up your ears, while others are flat-out dull and uninspired.
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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