Wire
Change Becomes Us (+bk)
CD PLUS BOOK! In Spring 2012, Wire's plan was to review the rudimentary blueprints of songs that had never made it beyond a few live performances in 1979 and 1980, a time when the band-members were in creative overdrive, though the band itself was disintegrating. The aim wasn't simply to resuscitate and record old songs. Rather, the objective was to approach that unrealized work as an oblique strategy, a potential springboard for their contemporary, forward-looking processes, a possible point of departure for new compositions. This CD-edition includes an 80-page hardbound book featuring documentation of the story of the album alongside extensive studio photos and the complete lyrics.