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Manscape
Rock · 1990 · 15 tracks

Manscape

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A pivot toward programmed electronics and digital precision. Wire strips away the rock grit for a clinical, sequencer-driven exploration of 1990s art-pop.

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It's like Wire decided to become a synth-pop band but kept their art-school brains fully intact.

A cold, intellectual curiosity wrapped in sleek digital textures.

Manscape · vs · Wire
Drum Machine+2.3σ

The instrumentation foregrounds drum machine far more than the catalogue usually does.

Tracklist · 15 Tracks
01
Life in the Manscape
3:28
02
Stampede
4:51
03
Patterns of Behaviour
4:18
04
Other Moments
3:50
05
Small Black Reptile
3:15
07
Morning Bell
4:23
08
Where’s the Deputation?
3:51
09
What Do You See?
6:48
10
Goodbye Ploy
3:50
11
Sixth Sense
4:20
12
Children of Groceries
3:03
13
You Hung Your Lights in the Trees / A Craftman’s Touch
10:04
14
Who Has Nine?
6:03
15
It Can’t Be True Can It?
4:06
16
Gravity Worship
5:12
Moments Worth Waiting For
The hypnotic ten minute sprawl of track 13 where the band fully commits to a repetitive electronic pulse.
The sharp contrast of Graham Lewis's deadpan delivery against the shimmering synth pads on Morning Bell.
The way the mechanical drum patterns on the title track create a sense of rigid, unyielding movement.
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