The Drill is the eighth studio album by the British post-punk group Wire, released in April 1991 by Mute Records.

The track "Drill" first appeared on 1986's Snakedrill EP, but Wire soon began to develop its arrangement in live performances, sometimes with a duration lasting up to 30 minutes.

In a retrospective review, AllMusic wrote, "Comprising experiments within the genre that would come to be known as electronica ... at the time of its release, The Drill ranked among Wire's more idiosyncratic ventures, but considering subsequent work in minimal electronica by other artists, it doesn't seem so strange now.

"[5] Trouser Press called it "an entire nine-track album of "Drill" variations, none of which betters the original" and described it as "electro dance music that simply fizzled; lyrics that were once rewardingly abstract had grown simply incomprehensible.

They concluded that if the album is a failure, "it's a noble one, proving that Wire still found a way to craft something halfway interesting out of running a single track into the ground.