Instruct: Classify the given review as either positive or negative.
Query: the album wire fans have waited for 20 years late

When Wire resurfaced in the late eighties many of their die hard fans I imagine where hoping for a pink flag/chairs missing type lp. Snakedrill the ep sort of fell along those lines but the lp, Ideal Copy was anything but punk(still a good release just the same).Now much more than a decade later i have just heard read and burn and though its not the sparse raw sound of pink flag its much closer to their early punk sound than the eighties syrupy gloop that followed ideal copy. R&B; is solid if simple. I am reminded of early pixies, Chrome and other eighties post punk punks.Any fans should not be disappointed (as manscape and bell is a cup did for me) but not blown away either.However in a way this could be considered a concept album as here these guys are considerably over the hill thrashing away. Once again Wire is doing what they are not supposed to be doing.