I think the CD length is just fine, CD's are so often packed with fillers.
Keep it short but sweet.
Gigs should last no longer than 45-60 min either.

Tangent Dept:
Mekon - Gosling - Zoskia - Thankyou - Is this the one?

TB

I'm with Tim. The age of the cd has produced far too many cd's that are waaay too long.

At the risk of showing my age if you can't fit an album on one side of a C90 then it's invaribaly too long!

I dunno. I thought Mozart was better when he tried to fit his music on two sides of vinyl rather than needlessly attempting to fill seventy odd minutes of a cd with his latter-day doodlings. ; )

Anyway, thirty odd mins of Wire is fine with me. If they're happy with the contents, I'm pretty sure I will be.

Can of worms there, some would argue that there isn't 45min worth on any of them...combined... ! ;)

Of course they would 1231742, but luckily for me they wouldn't be the kind of people I'd have any interest in conversing with. :)

Actually i'm living in a post-CD mindset and was celebrating the fact that bands no longer feel obliged to fill the arbitrary 74 mins that the silver discs offered. Of course it can work the other way. I still haven't quite made my mind up about Autechre's new download-only EP which runs to 2.5 hours!.

For me there is so much exciting new (and old undiscovered) music to listen too...bands shouldn't hog yer speakers for too long!.

Object 47 is brief compared to yer average Long Player, but then Wire have always been an economical band...the older songs often stopped when "the text ran out". And lets not forget that we've already had an EP of generous length this year...i suppose we could probably tack that on the end for a longer listen. A Wire record is a work of Art or like a fine wine, it doesn't come in big litre bottles or those cardboard boxes!

As for gigs, sure if its David Bowie or someone with a massive back catalogue then you want a couple of hours and a good bunch of old songs but generally I disagree that bands should pander to the fans and just play a long set with all the hits. I like that tension between the artist and the fans...(Fans: we made you what you are! We want to hear the hits!.. Band: Er..we want to play the new stuff and maybe a few b sides!)....its creative and it keeps things interesting for everyone otherwise every band becomes a nostalgia act. I'll forgive Autechre their daft 2 1/2 hour EP because at the gigs they usually play the stuff off the LP thats coming out 3 years after the one they're supposed to be touring.

But then I'm a Fall fan where you're lucky to get an hour set, and maybe one old song (written before 2003) if you're lucky!

"i'll have to pre-order it from Amazon"

Why?

Amazon is selling the new Album on CD only from the 15/07/08.
Will wait for Posteverything to sell it and get it on vinyl. Any incentives
for buying from Posteverything.com, like free badges,cd or something??
Got to ask haven,t you lol.

Garage Band, Posteverything are closely allied to Wire & Githead, and I am pretty sure Amazon will not get the CD to you quicker than PE will. In fact quite possibly, as with previous releases, you'll be able to get the new CD in advance of the official release date. (Calling PE....Object 47 where are you?)

I wouldn't take Amazon release dates as gospel, I've seen many of those dates come and go (Particularly with Fall releases), without checking the Pink Flag home page, I think it says they're aiming for a 7th July release, rather than that being the actual release date.

Just checked the normally reliable Norman and Action Records, both have Object 47 listed as being released on 14/07.

Save yourself the bother of reading some boring "journalist"'s half assed impression...download the album off soulseek...judge for yourself whether you wish to buy it...personally I think if you like anything Wire, you will like this...and you'll like it better in a non compressed longer life format ;)