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Title: An electric soup of mangled memories and submerged vision.
Review: This curiosity, the only live entry in the Wire canon, is the antipathy of the stadium live opus despised by these art school graduates on a punk rock mission. Sounding almost wholly improvised, this smorgasbord of decaying power pop and art gallery installations is at best chaotic, at worst narcissistic in its own sense of post punk artrock indulgence. Impossible to single out songs, but titles include: "Eels Sang Lino", a Burroughsesque barrel roll and "Piano Tuner (Keep Strumming Those Guitars)", a bedlamatic strip of shouty pop. These two disparate items are indicative of the album's psychotic appeal. An overview would recommend this strongly to existing Wire fans but the unconverted should begin with "154" or "Chairs Missing".
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