v/a- BACK UP: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 LP heavy 154 is the Wire album

154 is the Wire album that is the most popular from the 70's albums amongst Wire fans (perhaps perversely Wire fans tend to be the least enamoured with Pink Flag) and has had the most diverse influence

For Octavio Paz is the first Six Organs album to feature the reverberations of a nylon string guitar)

or pacing around their cavernous home in the French countryside

you can certainly tell this lot were well in tune with the rather twee textual modes – and soaring post-rock posturing – of the late 2000s

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v/a- BACK UP: Mexican Tecno Pop 1980-1989 LP heavy 154 is the Wire albumIncludes 12pg booklet printed on neon green, pink, and orange paper, which features photographs, band biographies, lyrics, and liner notes. The sleeve is a neon retro futurist design by Gwenal Rattke. 10 divergent tracks of Mexican electronics, full of skittering analog drum boxes and saucy synthesizer hooks. 8 of these songs were culled from the 2005 CD only compilation Backup: Expediente Tecno Pop. Also included are two previously unreleased cuts.