Wire / 10:20
Artist Wire
Album Title: 10:20
Album Cover:
Primary Genre Alternative & Punk: Art Rock
Format CD
Released 06/24/2020
Label PinkFlag/Mutesong
Catalog No PF26CD
Bar Code No 5 024545 882124
Packaging 6 Panel Digipack
Tracks
1. Boiling Boy (6:21)
2. German Shepherds (4:28)
3. He Knows (4:40)
4. Underwater Experiences (2:19)
5. The Art of Persistence (3:46)
6. Small Black Reptile (3:42)
7. Wolf Collides (4:06)
8. Over Theirs (8:51)
Date Acquired 06/24/2024
Personal Rating
Acquired from Vermontvinyl (Discogs)
Purchase Price 16.24

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Notes

Notes:
Recorded at Resident, London & Swin Studio (1-4).
Recorded at Rockfield, Monmouth & Swin Studio (5-8).
Comes in a 6-panel Digipak with clear plastic tray without booklet.

Credits:
Acoustic Guitar [Acoustic Guitars] – Colin Newman (tracks: 5)
Art Direction, Photography By – Jon Wozencroft
Backing Vocals – Graham Lewis (tracks: 1 to 4)
Bass – Graham Lewis
Drone – Matthew Simms (tracks: 8)
Drums – Robert Grey
Electric Guitar [Electric Guitars] – Colin Newman, Matthew Simms
Engineer [Additional Engineering] – Matthew Simms (tracks: 5 to 8)
Engineer [Recording Engineer] – Jeroen Melchers (tracks: 7), Sean Douglas (tracks: 1 to 6, 8)
Guitar – Margaret Fiedler McGinnis (tracks: 1, 3, 4)
Keyboards – Colin Newman (tracks: 5 to 8)
Loops [Intro / Outro Loop] – Graham Lewis (tracks: 7)
Mastered By – Denis Blackham
Noises [Noises] – Graham Lewis (tracks: 8)
Producer [Production], Mixed By [Mix] – Colin Newman
Text By – Bruce Gilbert (tracks: 1), Graham Lewis (tracks: 2 to 8)
Vocals – Colin Newman
Voice [Spoken Voice] – Margaret Fiedler McGinnis (tracks: 2)
Written-By – Colin Newman, Wire

Companies, Etc.:
Distributed By – Cargo
Manufactured By – Optimal Media GmbH – AK07876
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Pinkflag
Copyright © – Pinkflag
Published By – Mutesong Ltd.
Published By – Pinkflag
Published By – Carlin
Recorded At – Resident Studios
Recorded At – Swim Studio
Recorded At – Rockfield Studios
Mastered At – Skye Mastering

Barcode and other Identifiers:
Barcode (Text): 5 024545 882124
Barcode (Scanned): 5024545882124
Matrix / Runout: PF26CD AK07876-01 manufactured by optimal media GmbH
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L576
Mould SID Code: IFPI 9707

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DR7   -0.20 dB   -07.81 dB   06 - Small Black Reptile.aif  
DR7   -0.20 dB   -08.85 dB   07 - Wolf Colides.aif    
DR7   -0.20 dB   -09.39 dB   08 - Over Theirs.aif    
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Official DR Value: DR7
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Reviews
All Music Guide Review by Heather Phares:

In 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.
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