The Ideal Copy

by Wire

The Ideal Copy cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 April 1987
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 1:03:24
  • Community rating: 3.33/5 from 6 ratings

Artists on this release: Bruce Gilbert, Robert Gotobed, Graham Lewis, Colin Newman

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Ending an extended hiatus, Wire returned with a heavily modernized, sequencer-driven sound that completely abandoned traditional punk rock instrumentation. 'The Ideal Copy' utilizes cold, clinical synthesizers and programmed drum machines to support highly abstract, cryptic lyrical structures. It is a surreal, remarkably avant-garde pivot into alternative dance and art-pop.

Genres

Descriptors: leftfield, existential, avant-garde, synthesizers, electronic, minimal, repetitive, rhythmic

Tracklist

  1. Point of Collapse (3:22)
  2. Ahead (4:59)
  3. Madman's Honey (4:29)
  4. Feed Me (5:59)
  5. Ambitious (4:05)
  6. Cheeking Tongues (2:08)
  7. Still Shows (4:10)
  8. Over Theirs (5:23)
  9. Ahead (II) (3:29)
  10. A Serious of Snakes (Snakedrill EP Version) (4:42)
  11. Drill (Snakedrill EP Version) (5:03)
  12. Advantage In Height (Snakedrill EP Version) (3:02)
  13. Up to the Sun (Snakedrill EP Version) (2:42)
  14. Ambulance Chasers (Live) (2:55)
  15. Feed Me (Live) (4:28)
  16. Vivid Riot of Red (Live) (2:22)

Credits

  • Wire - primary artist, composed by
  • Sven - artwork [cover image]
  • Graham Lewis - bass, performer [various], voice, others instrument, vocal
  • Dave Coppenhall - design, artwork [inner bag art]
  • Russell Mills - design, artwork [inner bag art]
  • Robert Gotobed - drums, performer [various], others instrument
  • Andr茅 Giere - engineer [assistant engineer]
  • Bruce Gilbert - guitar
  • Colin Newman - guitar, performer [various], voice, others instrument, vocal
  • John Dent - lacquer cut by
  • PAG - plated by
  • Gareth Jones - producer, engineer

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