Early in 2017 Kieran Evans said that he was not working on the new album with the band, and that he heard two new songs that sounded "very, very melodious"; the album was expected to drop later in 2017, but then they had to move to a new studio and it got pushed back. Wire said that this was a very long gap for the group, and if the new songs were not good enough they would not come out. There was much speculation on whether they were releasing a new album at all, with Wire saying that the last two albums might have drained the band in terms of creativity, with the band saying that they were "in a funny place".

Despite this, in November 2017 the band announced the new album, their first to be recorded at their new studio near Newport. Described as "widescreen melancholia", and an attempt to recall the sound of Generation Terrorists and Everything Must Go, the band said that the album came together after some "old school hard work". The themes behind the album are memory and loss, forgotten history, confused reality and art as a hiding place and inspiration, with the band releasing further information saying that "It's obsessively melodic – in many ways referencing both the naive energy of 'Generation Terrorists' and the orchestral sweep of 'Everything Must Go'. After delay and difficulties getting started, the record has come together really quickly over the last few months through a surge of creativity and some old school hard work."

Resistance Is Futile is expected to be released on 6 April 2018 in standard CD format, deluxe CD, cassette and vinyl.

The band also announced a UK tour to promote the album. During April and May 2018 the band will play in Newcastle, Glasgow, Birmingham, Manchester, Llandudno, Leeds, London and Cardiff.

The first single "International Blue" was released as a download on 8 December 2017.

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