COLIN NEWMAN - Not To LP compilation Ayler speaks directly to the

Ayler speaks directly to the listener and explains that New Grass is nothing like his albums before — that it is of “a different dimension of his life” — in the album opener “Message from Albert

An album of despair

no ballads

whilst all this craziness was going on around us and it was a weird headspace to get into

COLIN NEWMAN - Not To LP compilation Ayler speaks directly to theIt's moody music. Colin Newman (of WIRE) writes wonderful pop songs. With "Indians" the other side of Wire is creeping in, in what is still a Colin Newman type of song. Some other songs are also old 'Wire' songs, which one can find back in Eyewitness and another off beat album released after the first implosion of Wire. 'Not To' is a record that, over the years, has largely fallen between the cracks, but for fans of Wire's more dissonant 70's output