cyclical guitar and great screeching arcs of reverberating feedback

providing nearly continuous timbral fluctuation across its 78-minute runtime even as thematic material reiterates

35 years after its initial 1977 release on RSO

RIYL: Sade

THE WIRE - Read & Burn 03 LP NY Hardcore cyclical guitar and great screechingReleased at the end of the initial period of Wire's 3rd act after Send and before the band's post Bruce Gilbert re invention Read & Burn 03 (2007) never quite got the attention it deserved. However the opening track "23 Years Too Late", with its tour narrative text and motorik rhythm stands as one of the band's finest achievements of any era in the view of both, core fans & the band (a rare point of agreement!) The original EP, 3rd in the Read & Burn