Wire – Nine Sevens – 2LP – Black Vinyl [Record Store Day 2025]

This product is a RECORD STORE DAY 2025 title and not available to pre-order. Available to buy in-storefrom 8am on Saturday, 12/04/2025 (Record Store Day). Remaining copies will be available to buy online from 8pm on Monday14/04/2025.

For RSD 2025 the influential band will be releasing both a new double LP edition of their Nine Sevens box set of 7″ records first released in 2018.Combining the run of early singles with more obscure later period tracks underlines the strength in depth that Wire had

This is pop art as art/pop and an exploration of the blank canvas of pop culture and how far that canvas can be stretched going from three minute constructs to ambient washes

The 7″ single was always the ultimate artefact and statement with the A side being the band momentarily paused in time and distilled and freeze-framed into the forever with less than three minutes of electric sound

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 the compilation of Nine Sevens onto a double album makes for quite a weird documentation of the band in this period

The first disc, to some extent, follows the script of a singles / greatest hits collection but the second one goes wildly off-piste and ends up somewhere quite far from where the collection started

A conventional Greatest Hits collection, besides being conceptually a bit naff would, if strictly based on charting singles, consist of only one song! A Best Of is subjective and somewhat pointless in the age of the Spotify playlist that anyone can make

The only thing really that these tracks have in common (besides being by Wire) is that they were released or destined to be released on 7″ by Wire in the period 1977-1980

Nine Sevens is both title & elevator pitch!’Wire always understood the language of pop and also the artfulness of playing with it, deconstructing it and reassembling it into new and thrilling shapes

Decades later, these adventures into sound are like slices of delicious, perfect pop/noise and hits from a parallel universe

Track Listing

A1. Mannequin
A2. Feeling Called Love
A3. 12XU
A4. I Am the Fly
A5. Ex-Lion Tamer
A6. Dot Dash
A7. Options R *

B1. Outdoor Miner (Single Version) *
B2. Practice Makes Perfect
B3. A Question Of Degree *
B4. Former Airline *
B5. Map Ref. 41N 93W

C1. Go Ahead *
C2. Our Swimmer *
C3. Midnight Bahnhof Caf *
C4. Second Length (Our Swimmer) **
C5. Catapult 30 **

D1. Song 1 *
D2. Get Down 1 + 2 *
D3. Let’s Panic Later *
D4. Small Electric Piece *

* Previously unreleased on vinyl album
** Recorded in 1980 but not released until 2014