In the four-star review of The Wire soundtrack ... and all the pieces matter in the Buffalo News, writer Jeff Miers says that album, in its "stunning package" is, "like the show itself, ... fierce, unflinching and uncompromising." He praises the series's choice of music as "essential to its stance of tough, uncompromising and unwashed verisimilitude" and points in particular to the inclusion of four very different versions of The Wire's opening song, Tom Waits's "Way Down in the Hole," which taken together offer proof that "this song has legs."

To read the review, visit buffalonews.com.