Colin Newman: Provisionally Entitled the Singing Fish (1981)

From Wikipedia:

The album received mixed reviews, and less attention than other albums in Newman's discography. AllMusic gave it 3 out of 5 stars but no written review. Richard Cook of the British music magazine NME called the album, along with Newman's previous work A-Z, "erratic and needlessly fussy affairs that creak under pretensions to alchemy when studio pottering is nearer the mark." [source]

This is a bizarre record, but I do like it. It does not sound like Wire at all. The tracks are entitled Fish 1 through Fish 12 with a brief reprise at the end.