Dome 1

It’s 1980, and post-punk innovators Wire have called it a day (for now). But founding members Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis promptly made good on their fast-working credentials with an intensive 12 months of writing, releasing three albums as the newly-formed group Dome. Dome 1, released on Gilbert and Lewis’ own label in July 1980, is the sound of sated punk, sloven from having fully consumed itself. Opener ‘Cancel Your Order’ sets a splintering course of deconstruction right through to closer ‘Madmen’, pairing clipped poetry with ascending noise, sounding like boiling hot soup sputtering on the stove