From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #437 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Monday, July 28 2008 Volume 10 : Number 437 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [idealcopy] Abject 47 ["johnny clash" ] Re: [idealcopy] Abject 47 [Tim ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:19:07 -0700 From: "johnny clash" Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Abject 47 object47 for free on newsgroups On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 2:44 AM, Fergus Kelly wrote: > Seems like The Wire aren't too enamoured of the Wire album: > > "For all that Wire of Gang Of Four were ahead of the curve the first time > round, it feels like the recent reactivations of both groups are behind it, > with the sudden explosion of interest in post-punk cooling off in the last > year or so. Object 47 (so named because it's the 47th item in the Wire > discography) is particularly baffling, with a sound and feel reminiscent not > of 2012, nor even 2008, but middle of the road 90s indie. It makes you > question their brilliant trio of Pink Flag, Chairs Missing and 154. Did they > really take the basic building blocks of rock and reassemble them in subtly > unfamiliar ways, using skewed melody, Situationist humour, punk energy ? > There are glimmers of these albums here: covert turns from abrasion into pop > song; the odd textural twist. > > But texture is a real problem on Object 47. Newman's distorted guitars > don't sound incisive or buzzsaw, just mushy and indistinct. Filtered and > processed they start to sound like mid-90s musical cul de sac Garbage. > Robert Grey's drums settle into a bland punk-pop briskness, a groove so well > worn, they disappear into anonymity, almost inaudibility, before your very > ears. Patient Flees feels briefly like a slow burning fuse - but then it > fails to go off. Instead it veers into a peculiar litany - > Inspiration/intoxication/provocation/subjugation/discrimination/motivation - > delivered in a seesaw leer, which a friend of mine likened to something Peep > Show's Super Hans might write. Perhaps most frustrating is the sense of > listening to a group convinced of its own edginess; by the closing track on > Object 47, All Fours, Wire have rehearsed plenty of old poses, but engaged > with few new ideas." > > Review by Sam Davies > > > > http://www.roomtemperature.org > http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com > http://www.myspace.com/ferguskellyrecordings > http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 00:06:26 +0100 From: Tim Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Abject 47 johnny clash wrote: > object47 for free on newsgroups > I can't believe anyone on this list hasn't already *paid* for it. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #437 ********************************