Wire 'A Bell Is A Cup Until It Is Struck' Mute STUMM 54 A/B UK 1st + inner 1988
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Wire 'A Bell Is A Cup... Until It Is Struck'  Mute STUMM 54  UK 1st press Vinyl, LP, housed in a die-cut light card lyric inner sleeve, and released in 1988.
The vinyl appears to have been lightly played and is in lovely condition. It played through beautifully on my stereo - no skip or stick. It is housed in a printed inner sleeve, which shows minimal signs of use and which is also in great shape - no rips or writing. The sleeve has some light ring-wear but is otherwise in good condition, again, with no rips or writing. The spine is a little worn but intact and legible. Matrix / Runout  Side One : STUMM - 54 A PAG The Exchange Matrix / Runout  Side Two : STUMM - 54 PAG Jonz
'A Bell Is a Cup... Until It Is Struck' is the fifth studio album by the British post-punk group Wire.
In 1989, the Trouser Press Record Guide described the album as "a stylized set of dreamscapes and consciousness streams... It's arguably Wire's most ruminative album, and while immersion in it won't, as 'Silk Skin Paws' suggests, 'wring your senses' – that's more a job for Chairs Missing – it will twirl your lobes a time or two."
AllMusic gave the album a laudatory review, describing the record as "arguably Wire's best album and certainly its most accessible... a work of modern rock genius."


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