Tuesday, 19 October 2010

Wire - Two Minutes (from Red, Barked Tree)

WIRE
“Red Barked Tree”
New album released January 10th 2011

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At a time when back catalogue outsells fresh creativity and newcomers achieve fame by adding a lick of paint to their parents’ record collections, it’s unusual to find a band who, despite plying their trade for decades, are willing and able to make new work that’s as vital and relevant as their own illustrious past recordings. Wire are such a band, and with Red Barked Tree they just might have succeeded in making a statement that will sound as strong in 30 years as their celebrated historical oeuvre does today.

Red Barked Tree rekindles a lyricism sometimes absent from Wire’s previous work and reconnects with the live energy of performance, harnessed and channelled from extensive touring over the past few years.

Red Barked Tree was conceived, written and recorded mostly during 2010 by the pared-down line-up of Colin Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey -- with no guests. Ranging from the hymnal “Adapt” to the barking sledgehammer art-punk of “Two Minutes,” the album encompasses the full palette of style and nuance that has always endeared Wire to pastel-tinged pop aficionados and bleeding-edge avant-rockers alike.

Whatever Wire make is Wire music: this is the band’s enigmatic guiding axiom. While Wire remain agnostic about the nature and identity of their aesthetic essence, it’s always been instantly recognisable, manifesting itself throughout their heterogeneous work. Perhaps this enigma will be revealed when we find the “Red Barked Trees”....

Tracklisting:

1. Please Take
2. Now Was
3. Adapt
4. Two Minutes
5. Clay
6. Bad Worn Thing
7. Moreover
8. A Flat Tent
9. Smash
10. Down To This
11. Red Barked Trees

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Regarding world maps and an enemy...
“Concentrate on these blue areas,” I told my generals, “because whoever it is has got America surrounded.”
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Americans prefer tax increases to benefit cuts

Monday, 18 October 2010

Girlz With Gunz #131 (Freedom from The Land of the Free!)

Earlier today my first ever GWG (Hazel Dooney) had her account with Facebook suspended due to censorship...this is art NOT porn and please America keep yr bigoted morals to yourself...
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This is the photo that caused the outrage

As Hazel says:

It was only a matter of time before Facebook suspended my account. The content of nearly all my paintings and photographs are proscribed by their 'Terms of Use'. The photograph that finally provoked them to do it is now being offered as a signed, numbered print, image size 4" x 2.66" on 6" x 4" matt paper, in a limited... edition of 750. I've titled it, not surprisingly, 'Banned'. The price is just $US/$A 20.00 including postage anywhere in the world. Email for further details at link below:

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