Basement – Wired

Name: Basement - Wired | B Side Vinyl
Brand: Basement
SKU: BSV-981841
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WIRED is a hard reset for Basement. It marks the British band’s 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 that’s 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 — with the same alchemic bond. The only thing that’s changed in recent years is their renewed sense of purpose, and their new album makes that loudly apparent. WIRED is the most dynamic, daring, and inspired Basement have ever sounded, while also retaining the timeless fundamentals of the band’s singular sound: growling guitars, rousing choruses, striking emotional verbiage. Basement are back firing on all cylinders, but they’re not interested in rehashing old glories. The whole band was adamant that WIRED had to be their most decisive artistic statement yet. Title-track “WIRED” is the most urgent they’ve ever sounded, a surefire live staple propelled by needling guitars, a slugging drumbeat, and a skyscraping hook that finds Fisher’s voice in peak form. “Broken By Design” has the opposite temperament: dusky, delicate, bass-led, but still quintessentially Basement in its immediate catchiness and moody character. Nothing on WIRED sounds stagnant. Not one part feels undercooked. The band looked to a smorgasbord of adventurous heroes for inspiration (REM, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins, to name a few) without ever sounding like they’re imitating any one band — not even themselves. The record’s title condenses all of this into a single word. The textural connotations of WIRED — metallic, sharp, jagged — evoke the album’s steely sonics, and on a more conceptual level, the title speaks to Basement’s unshakeable tenacity. An analog band who’ve thrived in an increasingly digital world without resting on the comforts of nostalgia. Five friends who’ve persisted through several breakups and breakthroughs, but have only grown as people and evolved as a musical unit. At this point, Basement have to accept their fate: they’re wired for this shit.

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Record Details

Label	RUN FOR COVER
Catalog No	RFCCD 288
Format	CD
Release Date	May 2026
Condition	New / Sealed

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Basement Wired is the sound of a band returning not with caution but with conviction, marking the British five-piece’s first full-length in eight years and a homecoming to Run For Cover Records, the label that helped define their early career. Catalog number RFCCD 288, this is the CD pressing of an album that announces itself immediately and does not let up.

Why Basement Wired Is the Band at Their Most Focused

Basement have always been the same five people: vocalist Andrew Fisher, guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix, bassist Duncan Stewart, and drummer James Fisher. That continuity matters. The chemistry that runs through their best material is not manufactured, and on Wired it feels recharged rather than recycled. The band drew from a wide range of adventurous reference points, REM, Interpol, Smashing Pumpkins among them, without leaning on any single one. The result is an album that moves between moods without losing its identity. The title track is the most urgent thing they have put to tape, driven by needling guitars, a relentless drumbeat, and a hook that places Andrew Fisher’s voice at its most commanding. Then something like “Broken By Design” shifts the atmosphere entirely, bass-led and dusky, quieter in approach but no less immediate. Nothing here sounds like filler, and nothing sounds like a band coasting on goodwill.

The Pressing and Format Details

This is the Run For Cover Records CD edition, catalog RFCCD 288. Run For Cover has been putting out carefully considered releases in the post-hardcore and alternative space for years, and their packaging standards hold here. For collectors who follow Basement’s discography closely, this is the official label-sanctioned release tied directly to the band’s reunion with the imprint that originally helped build their reputation. Owning this pressing means owning the album in the format that Run For Cover intended, connected to a label relationship that carries real history for this band.

Who Should Pick This Up

If you have followed Basement since their early records, or if you came to them through the post-hardcore and alternative guitar music that flourished in the early 2010s around bands like Touché Amoré or Defeater, Wired is not a soft re-entry. It is a direct, confident statement from a band that had every reason to play it safe and chose not to. The title is deliberate. The textural connotations of being wired, sharp, metallic, alert, describe both the album’s sound and the mindset behind it. Five friends who have navigated breakups and breakthroughs and come out on the other side making the most dynamic record of their career. That story has weight, and this pressing carries it.