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Read & Burn 03: a new record by Wire. Those 4 songs are amazing. Totally different from the Send material, the songs develop more towards some kind of "Art-Pop-Rock", and this is Wire at its best. It's Pop, and it's not. Expect drones. Expect fuzzy guitars. Don't expect Send. Hey, it's Wire.
I had the opportunity to talk to Colin Newman, the frontman of Wire, about the new release, about Wire and about the future of Wire. And for the first time ever you can listen right here to excerpts of the new material before the actual release on November 12; enjoy the music.
You can download the podcast here [25mins, 19MB]. Alternatively, if the link still works (iTunes can be incredibly funny at times), here's the direct link to iTunes.
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From Wire's press release:
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, Read & Burn 03 — the latest in Wire's series of 'research and development' vehicles — will be delivered to an unsuspecting world's door on November 12, 2007.
With a running time of over 25 minutes, Read & Burn 03 is a substantial chunk of audio and offers significant signposting in the third reactivation of Wire as a recording entity.
Having spent the four-and-a-half years since the May 2003 release of Send, their last full length studio album, consolidating and reappraising their back catalogue (by means of CD and DVD releases and re-releases of their '70s material) and for the most part remaining out of the public eye, Wire have nonetheless not been creatively idle. Although drawing on a resource pool of material developed over the entire post-Send period, Read & Burn 03 benefits substantially from a concentrated creative effort and newly defined aesthetic sense developed since mid-2006. Wire, ever multi-layered, ever redefined, is evolving yet again. No greater indication of the seismic shift in Wire's intentions can be given than the very fact that the first track on the band's first utterance for almost five years is nearly 10 minutes long!
Wire: Read & Burn 03 - Pinkflag pf16
23 Years Too Late (09:46)
Our Time (04:33)
No Warning Given (05:25)
Desert Diving (05:30)
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Apart from that, there's not much left to say. Just listen to my podcast with Colin Newman.
Links:
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The Wire Website
The Wire Mailing List
Wire @ Wikipedia
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