WIRE - 154 LP Lo-Fi steadily issuing work and staying

steadily issuing work and staying busy with the right kind of regularity

New Orleans' The World is a Vampire delivers a serving of unsettled noisy goth punk

Brazil's Orua returns with another completely engaging LP

synth-draped house 12"s for much-fêted labels like 22a and Rhythm Section

Jandavs also connected them with the prolific Richmond-based soundsystem worshippers

WIRE - 154 LP Lo-Fi steadily issuing work and staying1979's 154 represented the final tableau in Wire's Harvest released 70's triptych and was the first Wire album to be released to a universal set of five star reviews from the British rock weeklies. Thus it represented the point when the British 'pop culture establishment' publicly recognised Wire's primacy. "154 makes 95 percent of the competition look feeble," wrote Nick Kent in the NME, "Wire are achieving a lot of things other and more recognised