Wire - Send Ultimate

‘Send Ultimate’ is an archaeology of Wire in the studio between 2000 and 2003, as the band worked on new music for the first time in a decade. This retooled edition of ‘Send’ gives fresh insight into an exciting chapter for Wire, by expanding the frame around the album and providing a larger context with rare and previously unheard material. This includes both sides of the ‘12 Times U’ 7-inch vinyl-only collectors' item (those being the ‘12XU’ remixes that initially catalysed Wire's ‘Send’-era burst of creativity); unreleased curiosities such as the exercise in hyperkinetic dancefloor lunacy that is ‘DJ Fuckoff’; alternate versions of numbers originating in this period that subsequently appeared on 2007's ‘Read & Burn 03’ EP; and the tracks from the first two (out-of-print) ‘Read & Burn’ EPs that were omitted from the original album tracklist. Released in April 2003, ‘Send’ itself (which has been out of print long enough for it’s absence to be a source of frustration to many newer Wire fans) was the band’s first full album of new music in over a decade, containing 11 examples of their most caustic and brutally compelling output in twice that time, marking a dramatic and emphatic return to the shot-blasted immediacy and stylistic minimalism of their very earliest material. The critics concurred :  “Their most direct and focussed performances since their ‘Pink Flag’ (album) debut” - The Independent  … "Phenomenal - an album of untrammeled power and pre-apocalyptic unease" - Mojo (5 stars) … "The reconvened Wire sound outrageously on form and up for it" - The Wire … "Bouncing up and down into the 21st century, the Duracell-battery-powered irritants are back to beat us into submission once more" - Sunday Times (3 stars / outstanding) … "Startlingly spirited stuff" – Q.

Tracklisting:

DISC ONE:1. In the Art Of Stopping   2.Mr Marx’s Table 3.Being Watched 4.Comet 5.The Agfers Of Kodack 6.Nice Streets Above 7.Spent  8.Read And Burn 9.You Can’t Leave Now 10.Half Eaten 11. 99.9

DISC TWO:1.I Don't Understand 2. Trash/Treasure 3.Raft Ants 4.Germ Ship 5.1st Fast 6.Artificial Gravity 7.DJ Fuckoff 8.12 Times U 9. Our Time (minimal mix) 10.Desert Diving (alt mix) 11. 12 Times X

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