Silver/Lead

by Wire

Silver/Lead cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 31 March 2017
  • Label: pinkflag
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 36:07
  • Community rating: 3.26/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: software instrument

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Releasing exactly on the fortieth anniversary of their legendary debut 'Pink Flag', the influential post-punk pioneers deliver their fifteenth studio album. The record eschews their early, abrasive punk aesthetics in favor of lush, shimmering pop melodies and driving, mid-tempo motorik rhythms. It proved that Colin Newman and company remained as vital, forward-thinking, and creatively restless as ever.

Genres

Descriptors: guitars, minimal, melodic, male-vocals, atmospheric

Tracklist

  1. Playing Harp for the Fishes (3:44)
  2. Short Elevated Period (2:54)
  3. Diamonds in Cups (4:08)
  4. Forever & a Day (4:06)
  5. An Alibi (3:10)
  6. Sonic Lens (4:30)
  7. This Time (4:16)
  8. Brio (3:37)
  9. Sleep on the Wing (2:59)
  10. Silver / Lead (2:39)

Credits

  • Wire - primary artist, written-by, music by [music], written-by, songwriter [song]
  • Graham Lewis - band [wire are], bass guitar, cover [cover image by], written-by, lyrics by [text], written-by, songwriter [song], lead vocals, loops, sampler [samples], backing vocals, backing vocals, loops, sampler [samples], synthesizer [sk-1]
  • Matthew Simms - band [wire are], electric guitar, synthesizer [ms-10], electric guitar, mandola, electric guitar, effects [fx], electric guitar, synth [modular synth], electric guitar, effects [fx], synthesizer [ms-10], lap steel guitar, autoharp
  • Robert Grey - band [wire are], drums [drum kit]
  • Pete Norman - lacquer cut by

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