Object 47

PRE-ORDER NOW: VINYL VERSION OF WIRE’S 11th STUDIO ALBUM, On heavy VINYL, ESPECIALLY ADAPTED ARTWORK, INNER BAG WITH FULL LYRICS, 1st PRESSING COMES WITH VINYL VERSION OF PREVIOUS EP “READ & BURN 03”

In the 5 years since the release of their last album "Send" (in May 2003) Wire have expounded, reviewed, contracted, lain dormant, recovered, expanded and through all that have shed an old skin and grown a new one. Wire is not the same as it was before but then Wire is never the same as it was before..

Object 47 (the 47th object in Wire's discography) is nonetheless only Wire's 11th studio album. It is the 2nd product of an arc of work began in 2006 which has so far thrown up the rather well received EP "Read And Burn 03" (from which no tracks appear) and stands as a confident statement of where Wire are in 2008. As ever looking forward! While retaining Wire's idiosyncratic mix of an avant-garde mindset with classic pop timing this album boasts "tunes with zoom" a unique formula that somehow manages to sound wholly Wire (in a classic sense) and wholly contemporary.

"Wire's best new music since their glory days in the late '70's" GARRY MULHOLLAND - Q

"It's vital, quintessential Wire. In 2008, no less." TROY CARPENTER - Billboard

"At 35 minutes long, Object 47 is the perfect length: short, to the point, and boasting some of Wire's most vital music." MIKE BARNES - The Observer

"Scuffed-up and brainy, Object 47 finds Wire still beguiling after all these years." SHANNON ZIMMERMAN - Spin

"Wire have made a smooth pop album that still sounds like a new wave Wire challenge without being like anything you might have expected, and I guess that’s the perfect way for Wire to be in 2008" ALBUM OF THE WEEK - The Organ

"With Wire it pays to expect the unexpected." (Wire 2008)