Wire - Wire (2015)

This could be the best of their recent run. Certianly the most melodic. Why is ILM not all over this?

Dunno. Tremendous album!

My favorite is the 8 minute one. Heavy heavy shit

Got the impression everything after PF456REDUX/Send ws p disappointing? Have heard good things abt this one tho

The one previous was very melodic

yeah, 'sleep-walking' turns into a jam and 'joust & jostle' is one of their better upbeat songs, of any of their periods. 'swallow' could be improved by cutting the first half of it and throwing it in a burning trashcan.

i don't know why i got so aggro all of a sudden. sorry 'swallow', your other part is pretty cool.

Are those off the one previous?

don't think so, unless spotify is totally fucked up. i don't think i listened to change becomes us

They were tremendous at the Lexington last night. And Brazil was a nice surprise in the set.

this isn't very good

second half and especially last two tracks somewhat redeem what now appears to be terminal senescence, but it isn't enough tbh

still, those last two tracks will get quite a few replays

listened to it when i as unweeding in the garden. the songs are rather melodic but at the same time they are very boring. in the beginning i liked what i heard but after one or two songs it became quite repetitive and it was lacking inspiration. some of the lyrics - eg the 1st song called blogging, i think - seem to take text modules and string them together. that sounds quite ok and reminds me of the eno school of songwriting. but probably they have hid a meaning somewhere in the platitudes. overall a weak album not that i have expected anything else.

Excellent album, and more to say soon.

This sounds more like a poppier Colin Newman album than a Wire album? I like a few songs, but there are no Lewis vocals on this one, and it seems rather unadventurous as a whole.

i clicked for that lame youtube "superfan" of some time ago , what she is up to?

Can't find a proper all-inclusive Wire thread. Is there really not one? Decided to declare today "Wire" day, as a facebook friend said it was Wire day the other day and I said it should be 4/19, 3pm central time.

Pink Flag folks taking a long time shipping out the vinyl. I've had trouble with them before. Anyone receive theirs?

I love the guitar sound and tunings, but, yes, the mix is monochromatic and is closer to Colin Newman + sidemen than Red Barked Tree and Change Becomes Us allowed.

ned's review is really good

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/20472-wire/

loving this so far

Thanks!

This sounds more like a poppier Colin Newman album than a Wire album?

I could be doing with listening to a poppy Colin Newman album tbh.

Poppier than "Change becomes us" ? I doubt it, but.

Never heard it "Change Becomes Us", but then I haven't bothered with Wire since "Send", which bored the tits off me tbh.

They did a deal version where you got a book-format copy of the CD and a copy of a new biography for "Change Becomes Us", along with an instant download of the CD.

I bought it, then thought "Why, I havent bought a Wire album since the "Redux" LP edition of "Send" which had its moments but.

Anyway, it's been my most played Wire CD since "Drill"

I gave up real quick because I really wasn't digging Blogging but gave a second listen today and moved past that and of course it's fantastic. Not about to say it's better than 154 as certain critics have, but another great Wire album for sure. I love all the little subtle references and callbacks, little riffs and basslines and snippets of melodies here and there. I am happy that it seems like this release everyone is moving past the idea that their another revival band and just realize they've been around for a long time and continue to be fantastic. I think when you think about the breaks it makes so much sense. Everyone knows it's exceptionally rare that any musical artist has a long career of continued quality and relevance, and I think the occasional break to experiment outside the band, to reconfigure, to recalibrate etc, has been useful.

And that recent Graham Lewis solo album is awesome too.

Not about to say it's better than 154 as certain critics have

!!!

Yeah, there aren't any Graham-sung songs on the new album, right? I think of his solo vocal album as the flip-side to this new poppy Wire.

interesting. I can seem mashing the two up and making a fan version!

the (Edvard) Graham Lewis records from last year are amazing

much prefer them to the Wire album

is this not epicke?

it's a bit softe

'no show godot' off the lewis solo records is extremely epicke though; it and 'the eel wheeled' make quite a pair. think you'd enjoy them very much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZqP9ZzfILA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShkSbU6OmLQ

i love "blogging"

The fewer songs Lewis sings, the better imo.

I've given this album several chances and it doesn't hold together or offer moments as indelible as Red Barked Tree or Change Becomes Us did.

srsly No Show Godot

it's right there^ listen to it everyone

this album is very good. live the other night in SF they were tremendous.

Never seen Wire before. Debating on seeing them after work if I get out in time and am not exhausted (working a lot the previous and following weeks).

However, I looked at the setlist from last night in NYC and I don't know...

They played the new album in it's entirety - 11 songs out of the 20 they performed - plus one brand new song not on the album.

Add in two songs from their previous album Change Becomes Us and that means 70% of the set is from the last two years only which is pretty ridiculous for a band with 14 albums, a few of them classics. And they played only one song each from the first three albums; only "Brazil" from the debut. Ugh.

I like the new album a lot but I think this might be frustrating. I get that the band is in "we're not a nostalgia act" mode but I would hate to leave the show more frustrated than happy.

Think you need to read up on Wire's MO, they used to *never* play tracks from anything they had got "bored" with.

Back then, that would include the latest album. (Sometimes, they'd do gigs based around the next album but one)

I get the impression, however, they swap the 'oldies' around now.

Yes, they're corporate sellouts compared to what they used to be like!

they played a fair amount of older stuff in SF (by 'older' i mean some things from chairs missing, a few pink flag songs, and several from a bell is a cup). I say go; the new songs are very good live too.

a high rated app

Sounds like I was v lucky the first time I saw Wire in that case cos they played things like "Eardrum Buzz" and "Drill", and that were only a couple of years back!

I like this album, but it does sound v similar to Change Becomes Us. Which isnt a bad thing because I *love* that album, but this ones got a lighter poppier feel?

I'm being fussy bcs its Wire, frankly.

"nocturnal koreans" might be as awesome

join the queue of future has beens

If Rateyourmusic.com is anything to go by (and it's not the final statement by any means but it's an interesting bellweather), the remaining Wire fans were unimpressed with the self-titled album and ranked it ahead of only the widely disparaged "Manscape". I happen to like it but, truth be told, Colin's current singing style doesn't grab me like it used to, and "Nocturnal Koreans" isn't the radical departure the interviews beforehand seemed to indicate. We do get the missing Graham songs but "Nocturnal Koreans" songs could've easily integrated with the self-titled album without feeling out of place.

I think the recent Graham Lewis solo albums were much more engaging, as was "Red Barked Trees". Maybe I just need some more time with it, a luxury only given to my most favorite bands. Not sure where they're heading though I'm sure to follow.

oh god yeah, 'all over/all under' was way, way better than 'wire'. 'no show godot' is some sort of masterpiece. that said, both preview tracks from 'nocturnal koreans' have grabbed me more than anything off 'wire' save for 'harpooned' - it seems promising, put it that way

o look the new album is here, and is 26 mins long lol

having listened, it's frustratingly close to being quite good. 'internal exile' is great, 'numbered' and 'still' might be too. the rest ranges from good to distinctly mundane. read and burn 03 their last properly amazing release

Dunno, I loved "Change Becomes us"

Colin Newman is best known as singer and chief songwriter with the ground breaking post-punk band WIRE. From their internationally influential 1977 debut ‘Pink Flag’ right up to 2016’s critical acclaimed ‘Nocturnal Koreans’, Newman and Wire have always been at music’s cutting edge.
Throughout 1980-82, Newman released a series of solo work. From sound-tracking The Silence of the Lambs to being covered by This Mortal Coil, this solo work sought a place in history in it’s own right and has been unavailable for many years.

Three of Colin Newman’s classic solo records will be made available in on October 28th via his own new imprint Sentient Sonics (originally released via Beggars Banquet/ 4AD):

‘A-Z’ (1980)
‘Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish’ (1981)
‘Not To’ (1982)

The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ vinyl release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, released as three single albums. The ‘A-Z/ Provisionally Entitled The Singing Fish/Not To’ CD release will consist of the 3 re-mastered original albums, each accompanied by a companion CD of extra tracks, B-sides & demos - many of which have never been released before, which will be released as 3 double-CDs.

COLIN NEWMAN - ‘A-Z’
Single Vinyl (SS01 LP) // Double CD (SS01/02 CD)

In 1980, Newman released his debut solo album ‘A-Z’, which, as the title suggests, offers up a wide spectrum of musical approaches and sees multiple envelopes being pushed. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely re-mastered, and is augmented with an additional disc of bonus tracks, including out-takes, alternate versions, B-sides, demos and home recordings.

‘A-Z’ picks up exactly where Wire’s classic first three albums left off. In fact, Newman’s debut is one of post-punk’s great lost masterpieces, mixing slanted lyrics, fizzing analogue synths and Newman’s trademark angular guitar work. Highlights include the bass propelled stomp of album opener ‘I’ve Waited Ages’, which features heavily distorted guitar loops and some seriously bizarre lyrics which could give Spike Milligan a run for his money. While the Syd Barrett on steroids mania of ’S-S-S-Star Eyes’ sees Newman constructing a strangely catchy song from just one note, around which are woven numerous counter melodies.

Elsewhere, the melancholic and brooding ‘Alone’ (which has text by Wire’s Graham Lewis) propels itself into view with such majestic menace that it would later earn a well deserved place on the‘Silence of the Lambs’ soundtrack. Despite the unforced experimentation, tracks such as ‘Inventory’, with its brisk guitar and synth stylings, prove that Newman never lost touch with his ‘pop side’. As the NME review of the time so accurately observed, ‘A-Z’ is “An album in which experiment and accessibility co-exist”.

The CD only ‘A-Z’ bonus disc includes an additional 17 tracks - only 4 of which have previously been released. The demos recorded at Riverside Studios, are a revelation. Without the more obvious studio interventions of their final incarnations, tracks such as ‘But No’ and ‘The Classic Remains’ offer startlingly different takes on the material. Perhaps the biggest surprise is the demo of ‘Life on Deck’. While the album version is heavy with absurdist punk abrasion, the original comes over as a piece of hook laden guitar pop. Other treats include the poignant ‘Alone on Piano’ which does exactly what it says in the title, and one of Newman’s great lost songs ‘Not Me’ - later covered by This Mortal Coil on their epochal album ‘It’ll End in Tears’. Meanwhile, Newman’s original lo-fi home demos present the songs in more stark, experimental form.

‘A-Z’ shows Newman at the height of his powers, fashioning music which sounded utterly unlike anything else at the time. Or indeed since.

A–Z - Vinyl & CD disc 1 tracklist:

1. I’ve Waited Ages / 2. & Jury / 3. Alone/ 4. Order for Order / 5. Image 6. Life on Deck / 7. Troisième / 8. S-S-S-Star Eyes / 9. Seconds to Last 10. Inventory / 11. But No / 12. B

A–Z - CD disc 2 track list:

Studio Demos

1. Life on Deck / 2. The Classic Remains / 3. Don’t Bring Reminders / 4. Image 5. Not Me / 6. But No / 7. Troisième / 8. I’ve Waited Ages/ 9. Order for Order

Studio Recordings

10. Alone on Piano / 11. The Classic Remains

Home Studio Demos

12. Order for Order / 13. Not Me / 14. The Classic Remains / 15. Troisième 16. Standard Practice/ 17. Part of Our History

COLIN NEWMAN - ‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’
Single Vinyl (SS03 LP) // Double CD (SS03/04 CD)
Colin Newman’s second solo album, the perversely named ‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’, was released in 1981 and proves that Newman was more than able to work outside the traditional rock format.
A collection of imaginary soundtrack pieces in the manner of Brian Eno’s ‘Music For Films’,‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’ is a diverse collection of instrumentals, encompassing the atmospheric, the abstract and the thrillingly propulsive. Now, for the first time, this album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole disc of additional tracks, including alternate vocal versions, B-sides and demo recordings.

Sounds described it as “Wonderfully cinematic”. And it’s not hard to see why. Witness the misty, ambient marshes of ‘Fish 4’, or the tripped out Morricone-esque soundscape of ‘Fish 11’. But there are moments of intensity here too. Check out the deliriously insistent krautrock of ‘Fish 7’, or ’Fish 9’, where Newman speeds up the rhythm tracks to dadaist effect. The album as a whole displays a true desire to endlessly experiment.
Newman’s first self produced set, its ambition and scope show why he would go on to become producer of choice for post punk luminaries such as Minimal Compact and Virgin Prunes.

The CD only bonus disc presents an additional 20 tracks, only 5 of which have previously seen the light of day. There’s a number of fascinating vocal versions of the Fish tracks, including the wide eyed‘No Doubt’ (‘Fish 1’) and the skeletal psych of ‘You And Your Dog’ (‘Fish 11‘). Meanwhile, Newman’s home recordings from the era reveal that aside from experimenting with more abstract soundscapes, he was also simultaneously developing a set of vocal songs. Of particular note are the fuzz bass driven ‘Is It Worth Repeating?’ which features one of Newman’s most relaxed vocals and the airy Canterbury Scene stylings of ‘Crystal Clear’. In contrast, the menacingly insistent ‘Vox Pop’ sees a snarling vocal riding atop waves of pulsing distorted guitars.
In the late 80s, numerous artists as diverse as Barry Adamson and In The Nursery would go on to release so called imaginary soundtracks. But with 1981’s ‘provisionally entitled the singing fish’Newman proved that, as ever, he was well ahead of the curve.

provisionally entitled the singing fish - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:

1. fish1 /2. fish2/3. fish3/4. fish4/5. fish5/6. fish6/7. fish7 8. fish8/9. fish9/10.fish10/11.fish11/12.fish12

provisionally entitled the singing fish - CD disc 2 track list

Studio Recordings

1. You and Your Dog / 2. Here Come the Fleeing Rabbits / 3. No Doubt 4. The Grace You Know / 5. This Picture

Home Studio Demos

6. fish 9 / 7. fish 11 / 8. Crystal Clear / 9. A Passing Parade / 10. Soft Option 11. Original Suicide / 12. You and Your Dog / 13. Is It Worth Repeating?
14. It Isn’t Quite Enough / 15. I Can Feel It / 16. Atmos 1 / 17. Atmos 2
18. Now You Know / 19. Kiora Kora / 20. Vox Pop

provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 1 Instruments, mouth noise, cover and production: COLIN NEWMAN. Engineering and facilitating: STEVE PARKER. Track 9 drums ROBERT GREY. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Photographs by ANNETTE GREEN.

provisionally entitled the singing fish CD 2 Tracks 1–4 additional recording by JOHN FRYER at Blackwing Studio (London). Track 5 recorded by STEVE PARKER at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 6–9 & 11–20 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood. Track 10 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN in Rob’s basement studio in Brixton.

A–Z CD 1 Performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN + CHARLES BULLEN (clarinet, Track 7). Producer: MIKE THORNE. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Engineers: DENNIS WEINREICH & STEVE PARKER. Original paintings by COLIN NEWMAN. Paintings & design re–imagined by BEN NEWMAN.

A–Z CD 2 Tracks 1–9 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Riverside Recordings (Chiswick). Track 10 performed by MIKE THORNE & COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Media Sound (New York). Track 11 performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, MIKE THORNE, COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded at Scorpio Sound (London). Tracks 12–17 performed by COLIN NEWMAN. Recorded in West Norwood.

COLIN NEWMAN - ‘Not To’
Single Vinyl (SS05 LP) // Double CD (SS05/06 CD)
Newman’s third album ‘Not To’ (1982) is probably the finest of them all. Now, for the first time, the album has been completely remastered and augmented with a whole additional disc of unreleased tracks.
‘Not To’ sees Newman developing his distinctive art-rock in a more melodic pop direction. Songs such as the gorgeous ‘Lorries‘ with its chiming Byrds-like guitars and serpentine bass line, or the reflective‘Remove For Improvement’, contribute to an album with a strong psychedelic sensibility - complete with an unexpected Beatles cover - a deeply woozy take on George Harrison’s ‘Blue Jay Way’.

Other highlights include the beautiful, meditative title track and the minimalist stream of consciousness of ‘Truculent Yet’. Where Newman’s previous albums had foregrounded studio experimentation, ‘Not To’ keeps the focus clearly on the band dynamic. For this reason, the collection of songs has a timelessness which many albums of the period lack. Contemporary reviews were unstinting in their praise. NME called it “icicle-cool pop” . Hot Press described it as “Newman’s most commercial offering to date... this man could be a major force.” While Melody Maker summed it up even more neatly; “Originality and a determined lack of compromise...what more could you want?”

The additional disc presents the luminous single ‘We Means We Starts’ alongside 21 previously unreleased songs, which essentially constitute the demos for what would have been Newman’s 4th solo album. And it turns out it would have included some absolute gems. ‘But Either Way’ wouldn’t have sounded out of place on Wire’s ‘154’, while the fizzingly optimistic ‘You Must Decide’ is up there with Newman’s finest songs. Some of the demos also feature early sequencer work which point towards both Wire’s mid-80s incarnation and the ideas Newman would develop in his later solo work. Another treat is an early incarnation of the ‘Not To’ track ‘1, 2, 3, Beep Beep’ . Far superior to the quirky album cut, here it comes across as much more intense, yet also far more melodic.

What shines out from both ‘Not To’ itself and these demo recordings is an abundance of ideas and approaches, showing an artist with an ever evolving creative drive.

Not To - Vinyl & CD disc 1 track list:
1. Lorries / 2. Don’t Bring Reminders / 3. You, Me and Happy
4. We Meet Under Tables / 5. Safe / 6. Truculent Yet / 7. 5/10
8. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 9. Not To / 10. Indians! / 11. Remove for Improvement 12. Blue Jay Way

Not To - CD disc 2 track list:
Home Studio Demos
1. Truculent Yet / 2. Remove for Improvement / 3. You, Me and Happy
4. 1, 2, 3, Beep, Beep / 5. I’m Still Here / 6. It’s Just My Heart
7. If Time Had Been / 8. Hello Mr. Sandman / 9. Greensleeves / 10. This Time 11. Keeping It to Myself / 12. You Must Decide / 13. Don’t You Disagree?
14. Lunaris / 15. At Rest / 16. A Word in Your Ear / 17. Where Was I? / 18. Wo Hoe 19. But Either Way / 20. We Means We Starts / 21. Ye Rama Dabble Am

Studio Recording
22. We Means We Starts

Not To CD 1 Music performed by DESMOND SIMMONS, ROBERT GREY, SIMON GILLHAM, COLIN NEWMAN + BRUCE GILBERT (guitar, Track 10 ). Produced by COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London). Cover by ANNETTE GREEN.
Text tracks 3,5 & 7 GRAHAM LEWIS, track 11 BRUCE GILBERT all other tracks COLIN NEWMAN.
Not To CD 2 Tracks 1–21 performed by COLIN NEWMAN + ROBERT GREY (drums, Tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 9–12, 14, 17, 19, 21). Tracks 1–4 recorded in West Norwood. Tracks 5–13 recorded in Chalford, Gloucestershire. Tracks 14–21 recorded in West Norwood. Track 22 performed by SIMON GILLHAM, CHARLES ARTHUR, TOM MORLEY, COLIN NEWMAN. Engineered by STEVE PARKER. Recorded & mixed at Scorpio Sound (London).

Digital Promo: Colin Newman (of WIRE) - "A-Z / provisionally entitled the singing fish / Not To"

Release date: Friday, October 28th 2016

Immersion is excited to announce the release of Nanocluster Vol 2. out June 14. The album will be available as a double 10-inch, CD and on all digital platforms. Nanocluster Vol. 2 features collaborations with Immersion (Colin Newman and Malka Spigel), Thor Harris, and Cubzoa (Jack Wolter from the band Penelope Isles). Matt Schulz from Holy Fuck plays drums throughout the release.

Nanocluster started as a one-off pop-up gig that turned into an album series. Built around Colin Newman from acclaimed UK post-punk band Wire and his partner in life and sound Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact with various guests, they define collaboration. Colin met Malka when he produced her band in 1985. The collaboration started there. They became a couple and created their own projects like the instrumental electronic duo Immersion in 1994 and Githead in 2004 - spaces where they both ‘feel really comfortable.’

Growing out of Immersion, Nanocluster was birthed as a series of one-off gigs at the Rosehill in their new hometown of Brighton in 2017 with an added cast of influential and cutting-edge musicians. These were not ad hoc jams.
The songs had been written and rehearsed before each performance. This adventure led to a debut album, Nanocluster Vol 1, released in 2021 with Stereolab singer/guitarist Laetitia Sadier, German post-rock duo Tarwater, electronic musician Ulrich Schnauss and experimental artist Robin Rimbaud (Scanner).

Released again as a double 10-inch with each collaboration taking up each disc, the new album Nanocluster Vol. 2 has further developed this idea with a stark beauty that sounds like a future pop with sleek lines and unexpected great melodies.

Disc one is built around Thor Harris, the charismatic percussion player from Swans and many other projects, whom they met and performed with at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas in 2023. Thor adds ideas, his tuned percussion instruments, clarinet, and trumpet to the sessions.

Disc two is built around Cubzoa (Jack Wolter from the band Penelope Isles) who brings his musical craft, beguiling voice, guitar, and much more.

Meanwhile Matt Schulz from Holy Fuck plays drums across both combinations helping the resulting music become a third entity.

What results is a true collaboration that, enhanced via Immersion’s production, merges its elements to develop a new harmony.

Key to the process is Colin and Malka’s radio show for Slack City radio, ‘Swimming In Sound’ with its entertainingly diverse playlist that has widened their horizons. It’s also helped build relationships not only with these collaborators but also musicians like ambient country masters SUSS, with whom they plan an extended Nanocluster tour in the USA in 2025, and Brighton via Falmouth’s “jangly pop punk” Holiday Ghosts with whom they will perform the next Nanocluster event in their home town, as well as many more in the pipeline.

Malka says: ‘Nanocluster is collaboration but in a very specific form. We don't have rules. It’s a series of creative snapshots. We start with a gig with our collaborators with tracks that we rehearse because this is not a jam and where it stops is an album.’
songs, so when Malka and I first started working together, we had to find a third path, and that was the concept behind our collaboration.’

Nanocluster Vol. 2 is a 21st-century collusion of shared ideas, creating a momentary extended musical family. It’s about musical and personal relationships and the meeting place in the middle. A temporary band of house guests. The place where Immersion happens.

hey that sounds really pretty! over years I find myself returning frequently to that Oracle album Tree as well, Colin and Malka and... Samy Birnbach?

Immersion, the electronic duo comprising the “life and art” couple Colin Newman from Wire and Malka Spigel from Minimal Compact, are excited to announce the third album in their Nanocluster series, out February 14 2025 (pre-order). The release is a mid-Atlantic melting pot of ideas that have created a brand new third way. The album sees a collaboration between the European post-punk electronic discipline of Immersion meeting the American ambient country band SUSS and their big sky, new world, Americana cinematic soundscapes to create a perfect Nanocluster!

Immersion has shared "In The Far Away" the first pre-release single from Nanocluster Vol. 3 featuring collaborators SUSS. The band-created video can be shared on YouTube and the song is on all streaming platforms for any playlist shares.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlS11y_zmfY

Composed of veteran musicians Pat Irwin (the B-52s, Raybeats, 8 Eyed Spy), Bob Holmes (numun, Rubber Rodeo), and Jonathan Gregg (the Combine, the Linemen), SUSS combine Pedal Steel, National Steel Guitar, Mandolin, Harmonica, Baritone Guitar, and the Harmonium, which they weave with synthesizers and loops to create their big, lonesome sound.

Their fifth album, Birds & Beasts, released on Northern Spy Records in June 2024, shows the band heading off into a new direction, populating their stark landscapes with the creatures, cycles, and rhythms of the world around them.

This sense of adventure makes them perfect partners for the Nanocluster project. SUSS understood immediately the nature of this fascinating collaboration as that was already part of their creative process.

Says SUSS’ Bob Holmes, "Collaboration is an important aspect of the type of music SUSS makes. Whether we are collaborating with each other, or with musicians and artists outside of the band, the exploration and discovery of the unknown is central to our creative process. When Colin & Malka approached us to collaborate with them on Nanocluster, it seemed like a perfect fit. Their use of rhythm, synthesizers, bass and atmospherics felt very complementary to our instrumentation. As expected, the results were unexpected and our music was taken to a place where we would not have gone otherwise."

It’s this element of surprise that sparks the best art.

As Pat Irwin from SUSS explains, "One of the challenges of a collaboration is being led into places you never could have imagined. I look forward to those challenges."

It’s these challenges that create the sparks, as fellow SUSS member Jonathan Gregg points out: “It’s always exciting to include and react to new sounds and approaches.”

North American Tour Dates

March 14 - Austin, TX @ SXSW Music Festival
March 15 - Houston, TX @ The Orange Show
March 16 - Dallas, TX @ The Texas Theatre
March 18 - Memphis, TN @ The Green Room
March 19 - Nashville, TN @ Third Man Records
March 21 - Louisville, KY @ The Whirling Tiger
March 22 - Chicago, IL @ Constellation
March 23 - Detroit, MI @ Third Man Records Cass Corridor
March 25 - Pittsburgh, PA @ The Warehouse at Tech 25
March 26 - Columbus, OH @ The Old First Presbyterian Church
March 27 - Knoxville, TN @ Big Ears Festival
March 31 - Washington, D.C. @ Pie Shop
April 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s
April 3 - Boston, MA @ The Red Room at Cafe 939
April 4 - New York, NY @ Joe’s Pub

* all North American shows with SUSS

that xp pre-order link:
https://swim.greedbag.com/buy/nanocluster-vol-8/

If you have any questions, contact caroline at clarioncallmedia dot com.

New Graham Lewis album out too. Sort of like He Said for the 21st century:
https://edvardgrahamlewis.bandcamp.com/album/alreet

how lucky that these guys found each other back then. They're all still killing it.

Yeah, the recent Immersion "Nanocluster" collaborations are all great.

The Graham Lewis album is excellent. The songs that work with traditional verse/chorus structures hearken back for me to the best stuff on "The Ideal Copy". The other compositions really hold up as well. I put it up there with the last Stephen Mallinder and John Foxx's "Howl" as prime examples of the old guard making exciting new music that doesn't blemish their legacies.

I had that "In Esse" CD back in the day, found cheap. Interesting, but I can't imagine anyone paying full price for it...

I think Graham's most slept on side-project is He Said Omala, completely different in feel from the other He Said albums, must more atmospheric.

I’ve really been enjoying the weekly radio show that Colin and Malka do…
https://www.slackcity.org.uk/swimming-in-sound

They’re regular faces at local gigs too, love that they’re still so into finding new music

Bummed about no west coast dates, Wire and related projects are always high on my list of things to see after they blew me away on the Red Barked Tree tour.

Immersion Nanocluster vol 3 event tonight Monday in a small little dc club called Pie Shop that mostly just has local bands

Immersion— the electronic duo formed by life and art partners Colin Newman of Wireand Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact— are excited to announce their new album WTF?? out September 26 on their own label ~swim.

To mark the announcement, the band has shared the album’s lead single, “Use It Don’t Lose It,”along with an accompanying music video created by the band and Ben Newman:

I can't be arsed to compare these tour dates w ones already posted:

Immersion UK Tour Dates:

August 30 - Woodbridge, UK @ Woodbridge Festival of Arts & Music
October 3 - Brighton, UK @ The Actors (listening party & Immersion in conversation with John Robb)
October 29 - Leeds, UK @ The Attic
October 30 - Glasgow, UK @ MONO
October 31 - Manchester, UK @ Kamera
November 1 - Coventry, UK @ Just Dropped In
November 3 - London, UK @ Cafe OTO
December 4 - Brighton, UK @ Alphabet