There\u2019s something beautifully comforting about Basement sounding like Basement again. Not in a nostalgia-bait, \u201cremember Tumblr?\u201d kind of way \u2014 more like running into an old friend who still owns the same battered leather jacket and somehow wears it better now than they did ten years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
WIRED\u00a0arrives with the familiar emotional bruising, thick guitars and half-broken-heart-half-stage-dive energy the Ipswich band built their reputation on, but there\u2019s a sharper pulse running underneath this time. The album feels restless. Twitchy. Urgent. Less wallowing in the corner of the venue, more pacing outside it at 2am wondering whether to text your ex or start another band instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n