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10:20 * by Wire (Vinyl, 2020)

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A glimpse into Wire's working practices, when Wire play live there are different three classes of pieces that are performed, new songs, old songs and 'new old' songs. The latter often involves taking something that existed on a previous release and re-working it, very often evolving a stage highlight from it. There also pieces that have never seen a major release but for some reason never fitted on an album. The best of these ideas were recorded in two sessions - one relating to 'Red Barked Tree' but recorded in 2010 and another relating to Wire's latest album 'Mind Hive' released in 2020. Incidentally celebrating the decade Matt Simms has been with the band. The album divides in to two halves - the 2010 side & the 2020 side - hence the title.

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UPC5024545882117

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Release Year2020

FormatVinyl

GenreRock

TypeLP

StyleExperimental Rock

ArtistWire

Release Title10:20 *

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DistributionRedeye Music Distribution

Country/Region of ManufactureUSA

Additional informationIn 2020, Wire fans were lucky enough to get not one but two potent reminders of the band's consistent greatness. The first was that January's Mind Hive, which proved their political statements and sharply honed post-punk were just as relevant then as when they formed over 40 years prior. The next was 10:20, a collection of reimagined rarities and live favorites that felt just as fresh, even though its recordings spanned the 2010s and its material stretched all the way back to 1978's Chairs Missing. Wire took a similar approach and also struck gold with 2013's Change Becomes Us, which found them revisiting songs they'd played live in 1979 and 1980. This time, the particulars of each track are more complex; Wire wrote the slow-burning "He Knows" in 2000 when Bruce Gilbert was still a member of the band, it became a staple of their live show in 2008, and the recording that appears here dates from 2010 sessions with Laika's Margaret Fiedler. No matter how convoluted the histories of these songs are, they all make the most of Wire's evergreen strengths. "German Shepherds," originally from 1989's It's Beginning to and Back Again, is a fine example of their slanted guitar pop, as is "The Art of Persistence," a circa-2000 rarity that wouldn't have sounded out of place on either 154 or Mind Hive. The band's blazing punk is as vital as ever on the Chairs Missing leftover "Underwater Experiences," while Fiedler adds her six strings to the triple-guitar onslaught of "Burning Boy" (originally from A Bell Is a Cup.Until It Is Struck), and the 1985 vintage "Over Theirs" is remade with the slow, ominous grind Wire perfected years later. Other standouts include "Small Black Reptile," which the band transforms from synth pop into something in between psych-rock and shoegaze (and boasts some of Colin Newman's most playfully deadpan vocals) and "Wolf Collides," an eerily poignant Silver/Lead outtake that's just as compelling as anything that ended up on the album. Hearing Wire riff on their past and present so brilliantly makes 10:20 both a dream come true for longtime fans and a surprisingly good introduction to their music for newcomers. ~ Heather Phares

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