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Dec 10, 2014The rehearsal takes are probably the real draw (aside from the customary production corrections and sonic scrub all reissues get) for those already tuned to the album’s contrary wavelength, and they do not disappoint.
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MagnetSep 18, 2014The linear song structures, full of droning, atonal, repetitive music, shrieking vocals and skewed tempos, still make this music as challenging today as it was in 1978, although some of the songs now sound remarkably normal. [No. 113, p.61]
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The WireDec 2, 2014Though it may not feel exactly pleasurable, it most definitely connects. [Sep 2014, p.72]
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Classic Rock MagazineDec 18, 2014Thirty years later, Documents And Eyewitness works best in the way its name describes: as an account of a moment when bands would do the wrong thing and do it brilliantly. [Sep 2014, p.98]
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MojoAug 25, 2014Clearly not a point of entry for the uninitiated, but all serious Wire-ologists need this. [Sep 2014, p.107]
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Aug 25, 2014How you find Document And Eyewitness will depend on your appetite for artistic bloody mindedness. Still, if you’re a fan of Wire, you’ll know it can be moreish.
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Aug 25, 2014Wire never wanted to be a satisfying band, yet they somehow became one--which leaves the otherwise bold impulse behind Document and Eyewitness curiously inconclusive.
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Aug 25, 2014The main event could have been bloody genius. It isn’t, but it remains fascinating.
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Under The RadarSep 5, 2014The sets recorded here focused on then-new material written after 154, but Wire never even bothered to develop some of thee directionless sketches. [Sep/Oct 2014, p.82]
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Sep 5, 2014In all honesty, the album’s listenability has not improved with age. There are 34 songs on this new version of Document and Eyewitness and, even if a number of the live tracks clock in at less than two minutes, the sheer relentlessness of the freeform, out-of-tune, semi-suicide mission wears you down by the time you are only halfway through.