Released 13 April 2015 Release date 13 April 2015 | Length 44:01 Label Pinkflag | |
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Recorded 2014 at Rockfield Studios outside Rockfield, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK; overdubs added December 2014 Brighton Electric, Brighton, England, UK Genres Art punk, Alternative rock Similar Red Barked Tree, Change Becomes Us, Manscape, Nocturnal Koreans, Object 47 | ||
Wire is the self-titled fourteenth studio album by British post-punk band Wire. It was released on 13 April 2015.
Contents
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Background
The material on the album is a combination of songs which were written and performed live on tour preceding the recording and material written by Colin Newman just prior to entering the studio. The band chose eleven songs out of nineteen they’d been preparing, and Newman has stated that the band will issue the remaining material in “… a second release, probably early next year.” He later confirmed that this material would be released in April 2016 as Read & Burn 04. In the event, the subsequent album was entitled Nocturnal Koreans.
According to the band’s official webpage for the release, Wire is the first time that guitarist Matthew Simms, who joined in 2012, was heavily involved in the creation of album material. Colin Newman said of Simms: "This is the first album where Matt's been involved in the whole process. It would be overstating to say that we're in a Renaissance, but we are definitely getting somewhere, and I think that Matt is very much part of that."
Track listing
All tracks written by Wire.
Personnel
Songs
1Blogging3:46
2Shifting3:17
3Burning Bridges3:17