"Art School Punk" it has been said earlier. The 3 remaining WIRE members (Bruce Gilbert was already on "Object 47" [2008] no longer there.) Have made it through art professors-age, but apparently did not think about quitting, and the New Year so begins me-anything-you -Nothing with a new wire-plate! And she is good! On unspectacular way in the 21st century make Wire a plate after the other, the need to (today a co-worker for a change praised once again the "154" to the skies) not to hide from the chiseled in stone reference albums of the 70s. And there they are again, the typical Wire characteristics: Colin Newman's unmistakably cool whispering, ageless voice (also Graham Lewis sings a number songs.), Robert Grey's stoic, sounding almost by refusing drumming (Bum-Tschick And hardly cymbals or! even breaks ...) and the airy sound carpets of guitars, samples and keyboards. Easy to simple compositional device and reduction to the essentials and to less than the essentials. "Red Barked Tree" ties with ultra-tidy wave pop like on "Please Take" or "Bad Worn Thing" on the one hand at the 80-output or the predecessor "Object 47" on, on the wire again more pop (and danceable! ) sounded; On the other hand, the panel also filled with typical Wire sounds and ideas: The riff of "More Over" has a rhythmic structure, must immediately think of "Question Of Degree" when the initiate. As a song it is more concerned with monotony, repetition and compression because said reef is the only reef. "Clay" on the other hand can be "I Am The Fly" peeping around the corner. And the guitars on "A Flat Tent" refer directly to "154". Finally Wire draw on "Red Barked Tree" but also ideas on the phase coming from the well again seven years past "Send", such as the pretty much as long as "Two Minutes", a stubborn breaker, though a total of melodic, unaggressiver, not so in-your-face. But Wire were indeed earlier. Always umwaberte something ambiguous, ultimately not entirely tangible, located Draining which demanded the listener initiative. And they have never repeated clumsy in everything they did. In this sense, "Red Barked Tree" a very nice and unnostalgische Wire-plate does not need pity age bonus. Respect!
