WIRE - Send - Amazon.com Music. Your Amazon Music account is currently associated with a different marketplace. To enjoy Prime Music. Initial mail-order copies of the album came with a bonus live album 'WIRE. CD and expanded liner notes by Wilson Neate in 2010 as Send Ultimate.

Is a quasi-compilation and pseudo-new album from an older and much more ferocious; it plucks seven songs from the two low-key EPs the group released on its own Pink Flag label in 2002 and adds four new ones. This is the culmination, perhaps, of the group's 1999 re-formation -- an outcome that only attendees of the terse performances and buyers of the EPs could have forecasted. Unlike a lot of re-formed groups, chose not to be a jukebox with its old material while performing in front of its multi-generational crowds. The bandmembers didn't merely run through pieces of their beloved discography, or even inject new life into them -- they tore through them with a vigorous energy that teetered on the brink of violence. The new material collected and built on here takes on the same tightly wound, clenched-teeth direction.

Thick walls of clamor are constructed on each song. The opening 'In the Art of Stopping' is a relatively unassuming din of whipsaw guitars and percussion that could double as the sound of railroad ties being driven into the ground. Talvin Singh Ok Rapidshare Movies. 's voice hectors ominously as it slowly shifts from one channel to the other and back again. All the buzzing sets up the viscous and highly repetitive grinding of 'Mr. Marx's Table,' where takes on a more hospitable tone. On 'Spent,' practically screams at the top of his lungs and fights to be heard over an overwhelming bank of industrial guitars that twist with agitated riffs and squeals.

The only break from the onslaught comes during the closing '99.9,' which takes nearly four minutes to be worked into another rich lather of vibrating menace. Dynamic, taut, feisty, and clever as ever, is this group's fourth-best album.

Send Ultimate is an archaeology of Wire in the studio between 2000 and 2003--a period during which the band worked on new music for the first time in a decade. This retooled edition of Send gives fresh insight into an exciting chapter for Wire, expanding the frame around the album and providing a larger context with rare and previously unheard material. The double-CD includes both sides of the 12 Times U vinyl-only collectors' item (the '12XU' remixes that catalyzed Wire's Send-era burst of creativity); unreleased curiosities such as 'DJ Fuckoff,' an exercise in hyperkinetic dancefloor lunacy; alternate versions of numbers originating in this period that subsequently appeared on 2007's Read & Burn 03; and the tracks from the first two (out-of-print) Read & Burn EPs that were omitted from the original Send.