{"product_id":"cd-wire-vien","title":"CD - Wire - Vien +","description":"\u003cp\u003e1CD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFollowing the departure of Wire's drummer Robert Grey in 1990, WIR had risen phoenix like from the ashes of the acclaimed UK post-punk band after and were created to fulfil the final phase of Wire's Mute Records contract. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a more sequence based sound, WIR saw the band breaking all their own rules by creating a new sparse electronic music with Graham Lewis singing most of the vocals and even cannibalising their own catalogue by sometimes sampling their own older material. WIR was, however, not a long-term project and besides completing their only album, \"The First Letter\", their only other activities were a very small number of gigs and two multi-artist \"conceptual happenings\" under the name I Saw You. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOne of these was in Vienna in February 1993. On that Vienna trip, in addition to playing the gig, the band recorded a radio session for the Austrian national broadcaster ORF. This was released in 1996 by Touch on CD and consisted of two long tracks with a running time of almost 25 minutes. The remastered 2025 edition adds a newly recorded, Taylor Swift style re-recording of what is undoubtedly WIR's most pop moment, the dark brooding shadows of \"So And Slow\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Encore Records Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47009446887678,"sku":null,"price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1546\/6351\/files\/8S4_iPGPpMVoJ1nfVvFIVV66Fu00NTjO82HOEo2Kypg-1920w.webp?v=1746113570","url":"https:\/\/encorerecords.ca\/products\/cd-wire-vien","provider":"Encore Records Ltd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}