After years apart, BASEMENT have relinked for a new album that is bursting with renewed purpose. WIRED is the UK-based band’s fifth full-length album and first on Run For Cover Records in ten years. But it’s more than that – it’s the feeling of electricity that surges through these twelve songs like a current, and a statement on how interconnected these five individuals were while creating their most complete album to date. Since joining together with the modest goal playing shows around their hometown of Ipswich, Basement’s consistent core – vocalist Andrew Fisher, bass player Duncan Stewart, drummer James Fisher, and guitarists Alex Henery and Ronan Crix – have had an enduring connection that’s grown over nearly twenty years. WIRED signals a return to what drove the band in those earliest days: creative freedom & connection. Songs like title track “Wired,” opener “Time Waster” and the fiery “Pick Up the Pieces” are as intense as they are intimate, pushing against the boundaries of anything the band’s done before. There are softer moments, too – the infectious melodies of”Broken By Design” and “Head Alight” feel as emotionally resonant as any song the band’s ever done. Together, these twelve songs radiate like the iridescent cat captured on the album’s cover – flashes of pure energy, captured in the perfect moment to light up fiercely against the night. Navigated by producer John Congleton (Shame, Mannequin Pussy), WIRED channels the all of the catharsis of previous Basement records with a renewed focus on distortion, imperfection, and strangeness. There is clear inspiration from alt-rock pioneers like Radiohead and Sonic Youth across these songs, but what pulses through every moment of WIRED is a dedication to experimentation – a risky gambit on the creative force of these five individuals that rewards on every listen. For Basement, WIRED is not just the continuation of a story that started years ago – it’s a bold statement and a new beginning.

Tracklist:

1. Time Waster
2. Wired
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up the Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer’s End

UPC: 199438002530
Label: Run For Cover
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: Vinyl

WIRED 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 — with the same alchemic bond. The only thing thats 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 bands singular sound: growling guitars, rousing choruses, striking emotional verbiage.

Basement are back firing on all cylinders, but theyre 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 theyve ever sounded, a surefire live staple propelled by needling guitars, a slugging drumbeat, and a skyscraping hook that finds Fishers 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 theyre imitating any one band — not even themselves.

The records title condenses all of this into a single word. The textural connotations of WIRED — metallic, sharp, jagged — evoke the albums steely sonics, and on a more conceptual level, the title speaks to Basements unshakeable tenacity. An analog band whove thrived in an increasingly digital world without resting on the comforts of nostalgia. Five friends whove 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: theyre wired for this shit.

Tracklist:

1. Time Waster
2. WIRED
3. Deadweight
4. Broken By Design
5. Pick Up The Pieces
6. Embrace
7. Sever
8. The Way I Feel
9. Satisfy
10. Head Alight
11. Longshot
12. Summer’s End

UPC: 199438001731
Label: Run For Cover
Release Date: 5.8.26
Format: CD