Other Favorite Albums of 2012
January 2, 2013
Other favorites of 2012!
- Deerhoof, Breakup Song
- Screen Vinyl Image, Strange Behavior
- Wire, The Black Session – Paris, 10 May 2011
- Aesop Rock, Skelethon
- Mallard, Yes On Blood
- Mode Moderne, Strange Bruises
- Chromatics, Kill For Love
- Japandroids, Celebration Rock
- Sharon Van Etten, Tramp
- Moritz Von Oswald Trio, Fetch
- Oren Ambarchi, Audience of One
- Talk Normal, Sunshine
- Sun Araw, M Geddes Gengras, and the Congos, Icon Give Thank
- Berangere Maximin, No One Is An Island
- Adrian Sherwood, Survival and Resistance
- CS Yeh, Transitions
- Andy Stott, Luxury Problems
- Tame Impala, Lonerism
- Christian Loeffler, A Forest
- Alog, Unemployed
Wire – The Black Session: Paris 10 May 2011
April 10, 2012
Great live performances: new songs and old favorites!
“Kidney Bingos”
“Adapt”
Wire – Red Barked Tree
January 15, 2011
It’s not just the amount of snow on the ground that’s reminding me of the winter of 1977-78. Wire has an new lp just out, and it’s really, really, great.
Of course, it wouldn’t be reasonable to expect the band’s latest work to repeat the stylistic and philosophical innovations achieved with their first three records. Instead, what makes the new album so outstanding are the songs themselves: the first four, culminating with the astonishing and appropriately-titled “Two Minutes,” rank up there with any of the tracks that Wire has ever produced.
Equally important are the lyrics. The members of Wire have always been ones to say what needs to be said — nothing more and nothing less. And so, not surprisingly, those first four songs, as well as “Bad Worn Thing” and the closing, title track, speak directly to the bankruptcies — financial and moral — of our time and lament the stupidity and greed that blocks even the most modest steps towards solution.
“Two Minutes” can be downloaded for free, from the listen page of the band’s website. But don’t stop there — “Red Barked Tree” is a masterpiece in its entirety.
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