Wire – 154 (Vinyl) Melody's Echo Chamber 1 Wheeling

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bass-heavy drum break with snatches of a funky guitar refrain

Pitch Black

One of the Freerange Studio tapes suffered irreparable print through damage on two tracks

Wire – 154 (Vinyl) Melody's Echo Chamber 1 Wheeling154 from 1979 finds Wire moving away from its punk roots toward darker, more experimental horizons. There is less overt anger and insolence than in the past, and in its place is plenty of dark weirdness. truly disturbing at certain points, this album is a challenging listen. Beginning with the sinister I Should Have Known Better a song that has so little to do with the same titled Beatles song that it really is scary, 154 follows with the shambling,