WIR, Wire - Vien + (2025) [Hi-Res]
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- Title: Vien +
- Year Of Release: 2025
- Label: pinkflag
- Genre: Experimental, Indie Rock
- Quality: FLAC 24/44100; 16/44100; MP3 320
- Total Time: 00:28:59
- Total Size: 76; 189; 327 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Wir(e)’s beloved 1993 recordings for radio ORF, Austria - made at the behest of big fan, Peter Rehberg - augmented with a Taylor Swift-style rerecording of their pure synth-pop classic ‘So & So It Grows’ in a new arrangement on the B-side
"Following the departure of Wire’s drummer Robert Grey in 1990 WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire’s Mute Records contract. With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes sampling their own older material. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album, The First Letter, their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist “conceptual happenings” under the name I Saw You. One of these was in Clapham in April 1992 on election night and the other in Vienna in Feb 1993. On that Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF which was organised by Peter Rehberg - later the person behind MEGO & sadly no longer with us. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. Once the short run of CDs had sold out, the rights technically fell to the band, and pinkflag released it - digital only - in 2007 ..
The remastered 2025 CD edition adds a newly recorded, Taylor Swift style re-recording of what is undoubtedly WIR’s most pop moment, the dark brooding shadows of So and Slow. The version released here is based on how the band played it live, so, in spite of being instantly recognisable, it does not follow the arrangement of any previously released version."
Tracklist:
1-1 WIR;Wire - The First Letter [16:10]
1-2 WIR;Wire - Sexy And Rich (Janet) [8:32]
1-3 WIR;Wire - So & Slow it Grows (2024) [4:18]
"Following the departure of Wire’s drummer Robert Grey in 1990 WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire’s Mute Records contract. With a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes sampling their own older material. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album, The First Letter, their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist “conceptual happenings” under the name I Saw You. One of these was in Clapham in April 1992 on election night and the other in Vienna in Feb 1993. On that Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF which was organised by Peter Rehberg - later the person behind MEGO & sadly no longer with us. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. Once the short run of CDs had sold out, the rights technically fell to the band, and pinkflag released it - digital only - in 2007 ..
The remastered 2025 CD edition adds a newly recorded, Taylor Swift style re-recording of what is undoubtedly WIR’s most pop moment, the dark brooding shadows of So and Slow. The version released here is based on how the band played it live, so, in spite of being instantly recognisable, it does not follow the arrangement of any previously released version."
Tracklist:
1-1 WIR;Wire - The First Letter [16:10]
1-2 WIR;Wire - Sexy And Rich (Janet) [8:32]
1-3 WIR;Wire - So & Slow it Grows (2024) [4:18]
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