Wire Post To Wire, by The Standard

Wire Post To Wire

by The Standard

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	1.	Metropolitan 05:56
	2.	Even Numbers 07:11
	3.	Ghosts For Hire 04:22
	4.	Runway Week 03:50
	5.	Folk Song 06:30
	6.	Unicorns and Chemicals 04:49
	7.	Monks In New Jersey 05:22
	8.	A Black Machine 05:53
	9.	Jumprope In Hell 07:06

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The Standard took their time with Wire Post to Wire, the result being an album that's as gorgeously tasteful as it is frighteningly tense. There's something anxious in the pattering rhythm to the Clinic-ish "Even Numbers," and as the guitars rush forth you might expect an explosion. Instead, Jay Clarke's sophisticated piano line takes the fore, matching the fragility in Tim Putnam's wavering vocal. It's a pretty incredible thing to hear, this maturity. After all, aren't these post-everything bands supposed to be chock-full of vim, vigor, spike, and squelch? On the contrary, the Standard revel in fueling their angular (and angry) side with that incredible piano of Putnam's, and a lyrical mystery that's usually unsettling, but occasionally heartbreakingly gorgeous. It's like crying over a foreign film whose language you do not understand.

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released March 23, 2004

2004, 2004 Yep Roc Records

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The Standard Oregon

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Biedensand-Bäder

Lampertheim, Germany

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