Object 47 is the eleventh studio album by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 post punk band Wire

Wire (band)

Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...

, named so because it is the 47th item in the Wire discography - a methodology harking back to the name of their 1979 album, 154

154 (album)

154 is the third album from the band Wire, released in 1979 on EMI imprint Harvest Records in the UK and Europe and Warner Bros. Records in America. It was first issued on CD in 1987 by EMI Japan and later reissued by Restless Records in 1989...

, which was named after the number of concerts they had played to that point. It is the first Wire album without the participation of guitarist Bruce Gilbert

Bruce Gilbert

Bruce Gilbert is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, Gilbert branched out into electronic music, performance art, music production, and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity...

. It was released on July 7, 2008 in the UK and on July 15 in the US.

Track listing

1. "One of Us" – 3:45
2. "Circumspect" – 3:13
3. "Mekon Headman" – 2:58
4. "Perspex Icon" – 3:16
5. "Four Long Years" – 3:45
6. "Hard Currency" – 3:50
7. "Patient Flees" – 5:23
8. "Are You Ready?" – 4:43
9. "All Fours" – 4:05