Wire
Wire emerged out of the British punk explosion but, from the outset, maintained a distance from that scene and resisted easy categorization. While punk rapidly became a caricature of itself, Wire's musical identity -- focused on experimentation and process -- was constantly metamorphosing. Their first three albums alone attest to a startling evolution as the band repeatedly reinvented itself between 1977 and 1979. That capacity for self-reinvention, coupled with a willingness to stop recording indefinitely when ideas weren't forthcoming, has been crucial to Wire's ...[more]
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. Originally released on Harvest in 1977, Pink Flag is perhaps the most original debut album to come out of the first wave of British punk. Exhibiting severe art school damage, Wire careens at breakneck speed through 21 songs in 36 minutes to create an album that has influenced bands for nearly thirty years. Original artwork. 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
LP $18.99
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. With its Eno-esque synth textures, Chairs Missing has been often cited as the evolutionary link between punk and post-punk. In general, the lyrics are darker than those on Pink Flag, even morbid at times; images of cold, drowning, pain, and suicide haunt the record, and the title itself is a reference to mental instability. Originally released in 1978 and now available for the first time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl. Original artwork.
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VINYL FORMAT. 180 GRAM VINYL! REISSUE. If Chairs Missing is the transition album from punk to post-punk, 154 is definitely of the latter genre. Synth moves to the forefront on this 1979 third album from Wire along with melodies that help humanize the electronic textures. Named for the number of gigs the band had played to that point, 154 shows how far this band had come in three years over three albums. Original artwork. First time on 180 gram audiophile vinyl.
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VINYL FORMAT. Includes a bonus 12-inch featuring all four tracks from the Read and Burn 03 EP. In the five years since the May 2003 release of their last full-length album, Send, Wire has expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded, and shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same as it was before-- but then Wire is never the same as it was before. Object 47 (the 47th object in their discography) is nonetheless only Wire's eleventh studio album. It is the s [ read more ]
LP+12" $16.99
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VINYL FORMAT. In typically oblique fashion, the vinyl version of Send is very nearly a different record. Famed in the past for taking the stage with completely revised arrangements of their recorded songs, WIRE have extended that principle to Send/PF456 Redux, and present a limited edition vinyl release conceived in the spirit of the polar opposite of the now traditional "DJ Friendly Triple Album" concept. All songs from the CD release of Send and both Read & Burn EPs have been truncated, edited, and reduce [ read more ]
LP $27.99
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