It's Beginning to and Back Again [IBTABA]

by Wire

It's Beginning to and Back Again [IBTABA] cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 May 1989
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 59:43
  • Community rating: 2.95/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Graham Lewis, John Fryer, Robert Gotobed, Bruce Gilbert, Paul Kendall

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Constructed from extensively manipulated live recordings that were radically reworked in the studio, this cryptic project blurs the line between a live album and a new studio effort. Wire fully embraces clinical electronic sequencing, submerging their angular post-punk tendencies beneath a slick, mechanized synthesizer sheen. The centerpiece, a mechanized, danceable rework of their classic 'Eardrum Buzz', became one of their highest-charting alternative hits.

Genres

Descriptors: rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Finest Drops (4:28)
  2. Eardrum Buzz (4:16)
  3. German Shepherds (4:39)
  4. Public Place (6:05)
  5. It's A Boy (3:59)
  6. Illuminated (6:51)
  7. Boiling Boy (8:17)
  8. Over Theirs (9:24)
  9. Eardrum Buzz (12" Version) (4:15)
  10. The Offer (2:54)
  11. In Vivo (4:35)

Credits

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