Wire - Nine Sevens 2LP

Combining the run of early singles with more obscure later period tracks underlines Wire's strength and depth. This is pop-art as art-pop; an exploration of the blank canvas of pop culture and how far that canvas can be stretched, ranging from three minute constructs to ambient washes.

These "sevens" released from 1977 to the end of that decade signpost the band's remarkable development from their brilliantly monochromatic early phase to the textured complexity of the almost psychedelic unzipping of their sound and vision. In some ways, compiling Nine Sevens onto a double album makes for quite a weird documentation of the band in this period -- The first disc loosely follows the script of a singles / greatest hits collection but the second one goes wildly off-book and ends up somewhere quite far from where the collection started.

(Previously released as a 7" box set. This Record Store Day 2025 2LP release is the first time for most tracks on the LP format and includes a 1980 track previously unreleased on vinyl.)

Track List:

Side A

1. Mannequin
2. Feeling Called Love
3. 12Xu
4. I Am the Fly
5. Ex-Lion Tamer
6. Dot Dash *
7. Options R *

Side B

1.  Outdoor Miner (Single Version) *
2. Practice Makes Perfect
3. a Question of Degree *
4. Former Airline *
5. Map Ref. 41ºN 93ºW

Side C

1. Go Ahead *
2. Our Swimmer *
3. Midnight Bahnhof Café *
4. Second Length (Our Swimmer) **
5. Catapult 30 **

Side D (154 Ep)

1. Song 1 *
2. Get Down 1 + 2 *
3. Let's Panic Later *
4. Small Electric Piece *