Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Pitchfork	7.0/10
The Guardian
The A.V. Club	B+
Paste Magazine	8.2/10
Consequence of Sound	B-
PopMatters	7.0/10

Wire is the self-titled fourteenth studio album by British post-punk band Wire. It was released on 13 April 2015.

The material on the album is a combination of songs which were written and performed live on tour preceding the recording and material written by Colin Newman just prior to entering the studio. The band chose eleven songs out of nineteen they’d been preparing, and Newman has stated that the band will issue the remaining material in “… a second release, probably early next year.” He later confirmed that this material would be released in April 2016 as Read & Burn 04. In the event, the subsequent album was entitled Nocturnal Koreans.

According to the band’s official webpage for the release, Wire is the first time that guitarist Matthew Simms, who joined in 2012, was heavily involved in the creation of album material. Colin Newman said of Simms: "This is the first album where Matt's been involved in the whole process. It would be overstating to say that we're in a Renaissance, but we are definitely getting somewhere, and I think that Matt is very much part of that."

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