| Artist |
Wire |
| Album Title: |
Read & Burn 02 |
| Album Cover: |
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| Primary Genre |
Alternative & Punk: Post-Punk |
| Format |
CD EP |
| Released |
10/01/2002 |
| Label |
PinkFlag/Mutesong |
| Catalog No |
PF5 |
| Bar Code No |
none |
| Packaging |
Digipack |
| Tracks |
| 1.
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Read And Burn (2:35)
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| 2.
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Spent (4:43)
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| 3.
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Trash/Treasure (5:07)
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| 4.
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Nice Streets Above (2:50)
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| 5.
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Raft Ants (2:05)
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| 6.
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99.9 (7:41)
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| Date Acquired |
09/23/2002 |
| Personal Rating |
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| Acquired from |
Band's Website |
| Purchase Price |
15.00 |
Web Links |
All Music Guide Entry:
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Notes |
Notes:
Mixed @ swim studios, London.
Mastered @ Country Masters.
Thanks to Frank Lievhart.
℗ & © pinkflag 2002.
No Barcode
Comes as a standard Digipak (Digipack manufactured by Van De Steeg, Holland)
Allegedly only available at concerts or through the 'Post Everything' website.
Initial copies came with a "Wire designed fragrance" known as 'The Smell of You' (a swab in a sachet labelled "Handcrafted by www.pinkflag.com )
Credits:
Design – David Coppenhall
Mastered By – Denis Blackham
Mixed By – Colin Newman
Photography By [Image] – Graham Lewis
Written-By, Performer – Wire
Companies, Etc.:
Mixed At – Swim Studio
Mastered At – Country Masters
Manufactured By – Disctronics, UK
Manufactured By – Van De Steeg
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pinkflag
Copyright © – Pinkflag
Barcode and other Identifiers:
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L136
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0419
Matrix / Runout: PF5 01 6
Matrix / Runout (Mould text): MADE IN THE UK BY DISCTRONICS
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Analyzed Folder: Wire - Read & Burn 02 EP_dr.txt
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DR Peak RMS Filename
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DR7 -0.06 dB -7.49 dB 01 - Read And Burn.aif
DR8 -0.03 dB -8.88 dB 02 - Spent.aif
DR7 -0.01 dB -8.26 dB 03 - Trashtreasure.aif
DR7 -0.03 dB -8.14 dB 04 - Nice Streets Above.aif
DR6 -0.02 dB -7.07 dB 05 - Raft Ants.aif
DR7 -0.03 dB -8.99 dB 06 - 99.9.aif
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Number of Files: 6
Official DR Value: DR7
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| Reviews |
All Music Guide Review by Wilson Neate:
On their post-millennial return to the studio, Wire rediscovered no-nonsense noisemaking, trashing the art component of their pioneering art punk identity and throwing themselves headlong into a fast, loud, and bilious new philistinism. The band's first salvo, Read & Burn 01, was a stomping, short, sharp shocker, the aural equivalent of getting jumped in a dark alley by a bunch of irate, amphetamine-addled pensioners (well, Bruce Gilbert was nearing 60 when the CD appeared). A few months later, with listeners still cowering in the corner groping about for their glasses and checking for broken bones, the thuggish quartet came back to put the boot in again. Grounded in the three Rs (repetition, repetition, and repetition), Read & Burn 02 shares its predecessor's hit-and-run aesthetic: it's a post-industrial punk rock barrage of buzzing, stinging guitars; chunky basslines; and clockwork beats littered with terse, strangled vocals that fall somewhere between bolshy, pre-brawl aggression and football-terrace chants. The sound of Wire 2002 rarely lets you catch your breath. From the title track's deconstructed glam rock rhythms to the metallic rush of "Nice Streets Above" to the hectoring speedcore of "Raft Ants," these numbers seem fueled by a "last-one-to-the-end-of-the-song's-a-sissy" competition among the bandmembers. But while the overriding feel is one of menace and urgency, there are some less-fraught moments. It's a good cop/bad cop routine: Amid the general sonic onslaught, part of "Trash/Treasure" sees Colin Newman trading his heckling delivery for almost soothing vocals and Wire playing pop in a way that recalls their better '80s material. Still, Gilbert, Grey, Graham Lewis, and Newman have never had much time for nostalgia, and the new level of assaultive energy here emphasizes that the band is still reinventing itself. Read & Burn 02 is the sound of Wire not so much looking back as looking forward in anger.
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