Forty years on, Wire continue to hone their postpunk attack to an elegant point

It’s mind-boggling to me that Wire released their revolutionary debut, Pink Flag, four decades ago—and that there was a time when each new album from the band felt like it had the potential to change the postpunk landscape. That’s long since ceased to be the case, and sometimes I take for granted that Colin Newman and Graham Lewis (along with current drummer Robert Grey and second guitarist Matt Simms) are still making records—good ones, even.…