Wire has always gone against the grain, or rather, taken their own route despite where the traffic is headed. Their early albums were lumped in with punk, but they were more angular, bent their music into odd shapes. They shared the sense but not the sound of their punk contemporaries, and they were already way too old for this.
Skip ahead to Wire 2.0, their rebirth. More keyboards, poppier melodies, more Krautrock influence, in the sense that systems were set up, songs were experiments in perpetual motion (like clockwork until the weirdness sent the engine off the rails). "A Bell Is A Cup", today's example. Skip ahead again, to Wire 3.5, noisier again, guitars are back in a carpet of distortion. "Send" is from 2003, yet still sounds like next week.
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