- new wave, rock
- 44 min
- 10 tracks
- Mute
A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck is the fifth studio album by the British post-punk group Wire.
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Character
Spare, cool, character-led and grave.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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Tracks
- A1Silk Skin Paws4:51
- A2The Finest Drops4:55
- A3The Queen of Ur and the King of Um4:00
- A4Free Falling Divisions3:34
- A5It’s a Boy4:22
- B1Boiling Boy6:19
- B2Kidney Bingos4:08
- B3Come Back in Two Halves2:40
- B4Follow the Locust4:20
- B5A Public Place4:30
10 tracks, 44 minutes.
About the album
- Artist
- Wire
- Label
- Mute
- Released
- 1988
- Type
- Album
- Format
- 12" Vinyl
- Country
- XE
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