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I am completely astonished that the Womb isn't all over this like flies on sh*t, especially the resident guitar freaks. I knew Wire was back in action but had not heard any of their recent EPs (from which I guess at least some of this album originates), so I was a bit unprepared. I mean, I knew and appreciated Wire but my socks weren't completely knocked off by them...until now. To get to the point: Send represents the last 25 years of post-punk guitar rock rolled into one blazing package. Punk, grunge, techno, shoegaze, metallic thrash, and art-noise are all present, not as individual styles but as components, flavors blended to complement and reinforce one another. (About the only style you won't hear is the sort of dreamlike layers of "liquidity" that The Church are the unquestioned masters of.)

Wire are master chefs now; Send is as guitar-based as their classic early work but incorporates the electronic and rhythmic experience they picked up in their late-80's incarnation. It is, as Arthur Rimbaud might have said, "completely modern" . In summing up the past, Wire is also pointing toward the future...Send has "21st Century" written all over it. A must-hear experience!

Michael