{"id":36675,"date":"2021-04-28T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-28T19:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36675"},"modified":"2021-04-22T07:07:02","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T11:07:02","slug":"wire-announce-pf456-deluxe-for-record-store-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=36675","title":{"rendered":"Wire announce \u2018PF456 DELUXE\u2019 for Record Store Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Wire have announced new release details for \u2018PF456 DELUXE\u2019 which will be released on June 12 for Record Store Day. \u2018PF456 REDUX\u2019 was released in 2002, comprised of tracks from the two \u2018Read & Burn\u2019 EPs, plus the album \u2018Send<\/em>,\u2019 all of which were edited in length to accommodate the vinyl format. This new DELUXE edition for Record Store Day 2021 sees the tracks released at their full length, most of which for the first time on vinyl plus the \u201812 Times You\u2019 7\u201d thrown in for good measure. Additionally, \u2018PF456 REDUX\u2019 will also be re-released on CD.
This vinyl release comprises 2×10\u201d singles + 1×7\u201d single housed in a hardback book designed by Jon Wozencroft, including a 6000 word essay from writer Graham Duff, with new interviews with WIRE\u2019s Bruce Gilbert, Colin Newman, Robert Grey and Graham Lewis, as well as complete lyrics and recording details, plus many previously unpublished photographs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wire are one of Britain\u2019s most influential and prolific groups. Indeed, they have a good claim to be the very first post-punk band. In the late 1970s they produced a trio of acclaimed albums that influenced the next generation, including Henry Rollins and REM. During a second period of operation in the 1980s, Wire experimented with what a pop band might sound like in a parallel universe. This went on to influence the next generation including <\/strong>Blur and Massive Attack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Wire reconvened for a third time in the early years of the 21st century, they did so once again with a clean slate. Their new music was harsh and jagged: a sound that welded together huge guitars, bass and drums, scuzzy electro loops and yet more guitars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first of Wire\u2019s new material to see the light of day was a 7\u201d single: \u2018Twelve Times You\u2019. This hyperactive reimagining of one of the group\u2019s most iconic songs – 12XU<\/em> – was done, as Newman puts it: \u201cTo see what it would sound like if Fat Boy Slim made punk rock records.\u201d<\/em> It also paved the way for the group\u2019s new recording method: assembling rock records in the same manner as techno or breakbeat records…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next stage came in June 2002, with the release of the \u2018Read & Burn 1\u2019 EP. That a group of Wire\u2019s seniority was capable of producing such tough and vital work proved a revelation to some. This was followed by \u2018Read & Burn 2\u2019 and the album \u2018Send\u2019.

<\/strong><\/em>Highlights from \u2018PF456 DELUXE<\/u><\/strong>\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Art of Stopping<\/strong> – Simple, serrated and mercilessly repetitive, it\u2019s hard to imagine how this
particular song could be reduced any further. There\u2019s no chorus, no middle eight, no solo: just that riff!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I Don\u2019t Understand<\/strong> – Riding out on scything guitar strokes with a barked vocal, I Don\u2019t Understand<\/em> is a strident and aggressive beast. Oddly, it would be used as the music for a 2007 TV commercial for the lingerie company Victoria\u2019s Secret!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1st Fast <\/strong>– Every second operates as a dramatic sttement of intent, with its text, offering a partial manifesto: Able missives, rich deciduous, Coppiced riff meets aphorism. Whilst the lines Who\u2019s the bastard? Where\u2019s the pay-off? are about as punk as Wire get.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

99.9<\/strong> – Perhaps the most blatantly electronic of the songs on offer. Everything is compressed, something that serves to reduced all sense of space, leading to a claustrophobic sound world that sucks in air and light. \u2018PF456 DELUXE<\/em>\u2019 leans right into the darkness, and, as Bruce Gilbert\u2019s Wire swan song it\u2019s an uncompromising and decisive body of work and an essential document of a turning point in 21st century rock music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Wire<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u2018PF456 DELUXE\u2019 track list<\/strong>
1. “In the Art of Stopping” 
“I Don\u2019t Understand Comet”
“Germ Ship”
“1st Fast”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. “Raft Ants”
“The Agfers of Kodack” 
“You Can\u2019t Leave Now” 
“Spent”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. “Read & Burn” 
“Trash\/Treasure”
“Half Eaten”
“Nice Streets Above”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4 “Mr. Marx\u2019s Table” 
“Being Watched”
“99.9”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. “Twelve Times You” (X mix) 
“Twelve Times You” (Y mix)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wire have announced new release details for \u2018PF456 DELUXE\u2019 which will be released on June 12 for Record Store Day. \u2018PF456 REDUX\u2019 was released in 2002, comprised of tracks from the two \u2018Read […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[22,23,28,30,39],"tags":[10239,925,956,1320],"class_list":["post-36675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guitar-rock","category-indie","category-music","category-new-release","category-vinyl","tag-pf456-deluxe","tag-post-punk","tag-record-store-day","tag-wire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/3FC2D22A-CB84-40B1-9377-153037327FEF-e1619087165161.jpeg?fit=1084%2C607","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-9xx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29750,"url":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=29750","url_meta":{"origin":36675,"position":0},"title":"Spiritualized ‘Fucked Up Inside’ LP gets black vinyl edition","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"October 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"London-based\u00a0Glass Redux Records, the sister label of\u00a0Glass Modern Records, has announced a new black vinyl edition of\u00a0'Fucked Up Inside'\u00a0by British space rock legends\u00a0Spiritualized. 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