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Wire - Red Barked Tree

Red Barked Tree

Wire

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12" Vinyl Album 11 tracks £12.99 Out of stock
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Wire - Red Barked Tree

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”...

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Tracklisting

12" Vinyl Album (PF18)
  1. Wire - Please Take
  2. Wire - Now Was
  3. Wire - Adapt
  4. Wire - Two Minutes
  5. Wire - Clay
  6. Wire - Bad Worn Thing
  7. Wire - Moreover
  8. Wire - A Flat Ten
  9. Wire - Smash
  10. Wire - Down To This
  11. Wire - Red Barked Trees
CD Album (PF18)
  1. Wire - Please Take
  2. Wire - Now Was
  3. Wire - Adapt
  4. Wire - Two Minutes
  5. Wire - Clay
  6. Wire - Bad Worn Thing
  7. Wire - Moreover
  8. Wire - A Flat Ten
  9. Wire - Smash
  10. Wire - Down To This
  11. Wire - Red Barked Trees
Download Album (PF18)
  1. Wire - Please Take
  2. Wire - Now Was
  3. Wire - Adapt
  4. Wire - Two Minutes
  5. Wire - Clay
  6. Wire - Bad Worn Thing
  7. Wire - Moreover
  8. Wire - A Flat Ten
  9. Wire - Smash
  10. Wire - Down To This
  11. Wire - Red Barked Trees

Downloads

mp3 downloads

Track Number Track Name Track Length Price Buy
1 Please Take 3m 50s £0.99
2 Now Was 2m 23s £0.99
3 Adapt 2m 51s £0.99
4 Two Minutes 2m 0s £0.99
5 Clay 3m 12s £0.99
6 Bad Worn Thing 3m 33s £0.99
7 Moreover 4m 34s £0.99
8 A Flat Ten 2m 15s £0.99
9 Smash 3m 55s £0.99
10 Down To This 4m 55s £0.99
11 Red Barked Trees 5m 34s £0.99
  Entire MP3 Download Album (11 tracks) £6.99

flac downloads

Track Number Track Name Track Length Price Buy
1 Please Take 3m 50s £0.99
2 Now Was 2m 23s £0.99
3 Adapt 2m 51s £0.99
4 Two Minutes 2m 0s £0.99
5 Clay 3m 12s £0.99
6 Bad Worn Thing 3m 33s £0.99
7 Moreover 4m 34s £0.99
8 A Flat Ten 2m 15s £0.99
9 Smash 3m 55s £0.99
10 Down To This 4m 55s £0.99
11 Red Barked Trees 5m 34s £0.99
  Entire FLAC Download Album (11 tracks) £6.99

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