Basement - WiredWIRED is a hard reset for Basement. It marks the British bands first album in eight years, a reunion with their original label Run For Cover Records, and a return to making music with the unbridled passion and creative intuition thats always animated their best material. Since forming in 2009, Basement have always been the same five friends vocalist Andrew Fisher, guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix, bassist Duncan Stewart, and drummerJames Fisher

the album truly revealed itself when they reunited with original rhythm guitarist Ziyad Asrar in his basement Chicago studio—the same place where they hashed out much of their critically acclaimed 2016 debut

and a refusal to settle

Modern English bassist Mick Conroy and former Elastica drummer Justin Welch

and contains some truly impressive musicianship

was previously a digital only release

The Projectors' singers Amber Coffman

They even manufacture and wind the crossover components in house

with whom Zushi has guested on second guitar for decades

Bill Fay has always sung about attempting to understand the most universal questions: those of nature

The Raincoats have offered creative and spiritual inspiration for several generations of artists such as John Lydon

Like all fIREHOSE albums

" three-minute confections that sound like pop hits from another galaxy " Salon // " an alluring 34-minute seduction