| Artist |
Wire |
| Album Title: |
Silver / Lead |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Post-Punk |
| Format |
CD |
| Released |
03/31/2017 |
| Label |
PinkFlag/Mutesong |
| Catalog No |
PF24 |
| Bar Code No |
5 024545 773323 |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Playing Harp For The Fishes (3:44)
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| 2.
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Short Elevated Period (2:54)
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| 3.
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Diamonds In Cups (4:09)
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| 4.
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Forever & A Day (4:06)
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| 5.
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An Alibi (3:10)
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| 6.
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Sonic Lens (4:31)
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| 7.
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This Time (4:17)
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| 8.
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Brio (3:37)
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| 9.
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Sleep On The Wing (3:00)
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| 10.
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Silver/Lead (2:40)
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| Date Acquired |
04/22/2017 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Amazon |
| Purchase Price |
12.69 |
Web Links |
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Discogs entry:
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Notes |
Wire are: Robert Grey, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman and Matthew Simms
Recorded at Rockfield Studios, Monmouth
Engineers: Tim Lewis & Jelroen Melchers
Production, Mix and additional recording by Colin Newman at swim studio
Mastering at Skye Mastering by Denis Blackham
Cover Image by Graham Lewis
Art Direction by Jon Wozencroft
Published by pinkflag / mutesong
℗&© pinkflag 2017
info@pinkflag.com www.pinkflag.com
mailorder: pinkflag.greedbag.com
Acoustic Guitar – Colin Newman (tracks: 5, 6, 8, 10)
Art Direction – Jon Wozencroft
Autoharp – Matthew Simms (tracks: 8)
Backing Vocals – Graham Lewis (tracks: 2, 3, 8)
Bass Guitar – Graham Lewis
Drums [Drum Kit] – Robert Grey
Effects [FX] – Colin Newman (tracks: 10), Matthew Simms (tracks: 4, 6)
Electric Guitar – Matthew Simms (tracks: 1 to 7, 9, 10)
Electric Guitar, Keyboards – Colin Newman
Illustration [Cover Image] – Graham Lewis
Keyboards [Hammond SK-1] – Graham Lewis (tracks: 8)
Lap Steel Guitar – Matthew Simms (tracks: 8)
Lead Vocals – Colin Newman (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10), Graham Lewis (tracks: 1, 4, 7)
Loops, Sampler [Samples] – Graham Lewis (tracks: 1, 4, 8)
Mandola – Colin Newman (tracks: 8), Matthew Simms (tracks: 2)
Mastered By – Denis Blackham
Performer [Wire Are] – Colin Newman, Graham Lewis, Matthew Simms, Robert Grey
Producer [Production], Mixed By [Mix], Recorded By [Additional Recording] – Colin Newman
Recorded By [Engineer] – Jeroen Melchers, Tim Lewis (2)
Software Instrument [M-Tron Baritone] – Colin Newman (tracks: 7)
Synth [Modular Synth] – Matthew Simms (tracks: 5, 7)
Synthesizer [Korg MS-10] – Matthew Simms (tracks: 1, 3, 6)
Twelve-String Guitar – Colin Newman (tracks: 3)
Written-By [Music] – Wire
Written-By [Song] – Colin Newman (tracks: 1 to 3, 5, 6, 8 to 10), Graham Lewis (tracks: 1, 4, 7), Wire (tracks: 1, 4, 7)
Written-By [Text] – Graham Lewis
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pinkflag
Copyright © – Pinkflag
Published By – Pinkflag – 77 2017
Published By – Mute Song – 77 2017
Recorded At – Rockfield Studios
Produced At – Swim Studio
Mixed At – Swim Studio
Recorded At – Swim Studio
Mastered At – Skye Mastering
Manufactured By – www.keyproduction.co.uk
Pressed By – TAKT – 2100006703092
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log date: 2017-04-23 20:20:15
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Analyzed: Wire / Silver/Lead
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR7 -0.10 dB -8.70 dB 3:44 01-Playing Harp for the Fishes
DR6 -0.10 dB -6.64 dB 2:54 02-Short Elevated Period
DR7 -0.10 dB -7.63 dB 4:09 03-Diamonds in Cups
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.37 dB 4:06 04-Forever & a Day
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.04 dB 3:10 05-An Alibi
DR6 -0.10 dB -8.12 dB 4:31 06-Sonic Lens
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.73 dB 4:17 07-This Time
DR7 -0.10 dB -8.81 dB 3:37 08-Brio
DR6 -0.10 dB -7.97 dB 3:00 09-Sleep on the Wing
DR8 -0.10 dB -9.41 dB 2:40 10-Silver/Lead
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR7
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 16
Bitrate: 900 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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| Reviews |
AllMusic Review by Heather Phares:
On Silver/Lead, Wire celebrate their 40th anniversary by throwing some intentional kinks into their well-oiled machinery. Much of their music in the 2010s was as fast-paced as their release schedule, but on their 15th album, they're slower and stranger than they've been in years. Aside from the swift guitar pop of "In a Short Elevated Period," this album doesn't blaze like Change Becomes Us or Nocturnal Koreans; instead, it turns the energy of those albums inward on songs that shimmer like silver and have the heft of lead. Wire are just as keenly observant when they're introspective as when they take aim at the outside world, and when Colin Newman sings "be a good witness of all that you've seen" on the minor-key T. Rex riffage of "Diamonds in Cups," it's an apt description of their modus operandi. Meanwhile, the grinding opener "Playing Harp for the Fishes," which features bassist Graham Lewis on vocals, revives the darkly surreal ruminations that this incarnation of the band seemed to have left behind. The feeling that Silver/Lead's songs should be faster creates a different kind of tension that's arguably more provocative, and interesting, than a barrage of rapid-fire tempos. "An Alibi" is an uneasy post-punk lullaby, while the ironically named "Brio" evokes the languid spaciness of Pink Floyd as well as the desolation Wire mastered decades ago. Slowing things down also lets the melancholy that bubbled under on Wire come to the surface, and Silver/Lead delivers some of the band's prettiest, and saddest, music in some time. Newman imbues "Sleep on the Wing" with a highly literate, ever so slightly ominous sorrow, while Lewis' weary baritone is used perfectly on "This Time," where he sings "this time is gonna be better" to a melody that sounds like a lie the moment it leaves his lips. And when he sings "Ooh darling/I want you to stay" on "Forever & a Day," it shows just how much power naked emotion can have in the hands of a band as famously cerebral and aloof as this one. As precise as ever yet oddly moving, Silver/Lead reaffirms that Wire are more like mercury, shape-shifting effortlessly while remaining true to the things that have always made them great.
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