On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:23:29PM +0100, Alan Lockett wrote:
quoted 9 lines "Wire's flirtations with a nascent techno sound and its attendant beats
> "Wire's flirtations with a nascent techno sound and its attendant beats
> burgeoned into a fully declared romance fashioned from synths and
> sequencers on Manscape (1990). However, Manscape stands as somewhat of a
> nadir in the Wire corpus -- Colin Newman himself describing it as a "really
> good record," albeit "badly recorded [and] really badly mixed." Much of the
> band's creative edge is blunted in this arguably overproduced affair that
> sees the embrace of newer technology yielding for the most part
> unremarkable, although vaguely danceable results."
> <http://www.popmatters.com/music/reviews/w/wire-reissues.shtml>
(For what it's worth, a demolition-job/cover of Map Ref's in my current
live set.)
You Hung Your Lights in the Trees is the last track on Manscape; it's
definitely electronic, though whether it'd win the approval
of amiIDMornot.com is an open question. It's the best thing on the record
by a mile, though.
Someone so needs to register that domain.
Andrew
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