Merchandise - A Corpse Wired For SoundGalvanized by Tampa hardcore and inspired by its miscreant noise, A Corpse Wired For Sound signals a new chapter for Merchandise. Their second for album 4AD, Merchandise have stripped back to the core of Carson Cox (vocals, electronics), Dave Vassalotti (guitar, electronics) and Pat Brady (bass) to make A Corpse Wired For Sound. The trio travelled to Ros, Italy to start proceedings, recording half in a studio there and the rest at home, in Tampa as

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Fronted by the larger than life Euan Hartley

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With the band self-recording it was in the glamourous setting of an attic studio above a doctor's office where drums were committed to tape

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progressive and forward-looking

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Every aspect of this album is close to perfection