Tag: Pink Flag

This week's new releases: Wire, Poster Children, Breeders, Matthew Sweet, Rat Scabies

This week’s new releases: Wire, Poster Children, Breeders, Matthew Sweet, Rat Scabies

Record Rack: A round-up of the week’s new albums, expanded reissues and/or box sets, appearing each Monday on Slicing Up Eyeballs. All releases due out this Friday unless noted. This week’s releases include titles from Wire, Poster Children, The Breeders, Matthew Sweet, Rat Scabies and Lords of Acid.

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of 'Pink Flag,' 'Chairs Missing' and '154'

Wire preps demo-packed expanded reissues of ‘Pink Flag,’ ‘Chairs Missing’ and ‘154’

Seminal post-punk act Wire will reissue its first three albums — 1977’s Pink Flag, 1978’s Chairs Missing and 1979’s 154 — in May with each remastered album packaged in a special book and featuring one or more bonus discs filled with studio demos and previously unreleased material. Full details here.

Wire resurrects unrecorded material from 1979-80 for new album 'Change Becomes Us'

Wire resurrects unrecorded material from 1979-80 for new album ‘Change Becomes Us’

U.K. post-punk legends Wire today announced the release of their fourth post-reunion album and 13th overall, a 13-track collection called ‘Change Becomes Us’ that is due out next March and “began as an exploration of unrecorded material originally written in 1979-80,” according to an e-mail the band sent to fans.

Download: Wire's 'Two Minutes,' first track from new album 'Red Barked Tree'

Download: Wire’s ‘Two Minutes,’ first track from new album ‘Red Barked Tree’

Pared-down U.K. postpunk act Wire today announced it will self-release its 12th studio album — and third post-reunion effort — on Jan. 11, an 11-track collection called ‘Red Barked Tree’ that is preceded by a free MP3 download of the song ‘Two Minutes.’