Wire bassist Edvard Graham Lewis announces new solo album, Alreet?

“Last Scene Of All”, sees speeches from Shakespeare’s As You Like It and The Tempest lock together to suggest a life going out with a bang not a whimper.

The album was co-produced with Swedish songwriter, producer and musician Max Lorentz, who has worked with everyone from acclaimed composer Magnus Lindberg, to ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog. It features contributions from Wire cohorts Matthew Simms and Robert Grey, cello by Kevin Kirs Vestege, hurdy-gurdy by Harald Pettersson and guitars sampled from ex-Wire member Bruce Gilbert.

Aside from his work with Wire, Lewis has previously released a string of solo albums, under both his own name and the He Said and H-A-L-O monikers. Meanwhile, in partnership with Wire’s Bruce Gilbert, he created five albums of industrial strength studio manipulation as Dome. He has also recorded scores for documentaries, dance pieces and art installations, as well as recording collaborative albums with various musical luminaries, including Mike Watt, Jean-Louis Huhta, Ted Milton and Anna Livia Löwendahl-Atomic.

Tracklist:

1. Kinds of Whether
2. Diamond Shell
3. Switch
4. Last Scene of All
5. Bang!
6. I Still Remember
7. Key Weapon
8. Who the Hell