Southern Wire Ends

As previously announced, the new album “The Sign” is coming out today. It goes back to the style of “Second-Hand Days”, but also includes some classic rock songs and ballads.

“The Sign” contains 12 songs on its main release. An extended edition includes 7 bonus tracks on a second disc called the “Nothing At All EP”.

You can download the tracks of Disc 1 here and the songs from the “Nothing At All EP” here at last.fm. Furthermore you can view all information about The Sign and its deluxe release in the discography.

You can listen to 5 Songs of the new album on the mySpace page of Southern Wire Ends: “The Sign”, “Brake! (If You Wanna Go Faster)”, “Yellow Sun Machine”, “The Four Corners Of The World” and “These Are The Things I Can Do Best”.

It took only a few weeks to record and release “The Black Heart Sessions”, the follow-up to “Piranha” and the first sessions album produced by The Screens. The Southern Wire Ends re-release of that album is coming out today, marking the last work in this series of re-releases.

“The Black Heart Sessions” include epic songs like “Black Heart Machine” and “One For Me”, shorter rock tracks like “Last Train”, electronic experiments like “Lost In Transmissions” and the first song containing instrumental parts written by Benni: “Home”.

You can download legal copies of all tracks here at last.fm and get all information about the album here in the discography.

Less poppier, but full of ideas and musical experiments: that are the key properties of the album “Piranha”, originally written and published in 2008 and re-relased today.

“Piranha” contains its single “Road To Chennai” and more songs like “Morning Fog Of Glasgow”, “Girl In An Alcove” and “Capital Collateral”. Vrankey can be heard on vocals the first time on “Other side” (lead vocals) and “Hijack My Life” (backing vocals).

You can download legal copies of all tracks here at last.fm and get all information about the album here in the discography.

“Second-Hand Days” is another re-release of Southern Wire Ends, coming out today. The tracks of this album were recorded and originally released in 2008.

“Second-Hand Days” contains many rock songs with a spherical production, like the single “White Man In The Snow”, for example. Furthermore it includes a trilogy, consisting of the songs “Join Me As I Sing”, “Once Again Without Subtitles For The Hearing-Impaired” and “Fall Asleep Behind The Wheel”.

You can download legal copies of all tracks here at last.fm and get all information about the album here in the discography.

Before “I’m Just Someone Who Looks A Bit Like Me” has been released, Vrankey und Benni had published 6 other albums and 1 EP. “A Screenplay Of The Last 5 Years” gives its listeners an overview of these releases and their two immediate successors. It contains re-recordings of tracks chosen from all these albums released between 2003 and 2008 and, additionally, two new songs: “Pioneers Of Paranoia” and “Five Years”.

So “A Screenplay Of The Last 5 Years” contains new version of “Hurricane Energy”, “World War”, “Please (Make Me Believe In You)”, “Monday Morning Star”, “Trees” and “Try To Escape”, for example. You can download legal copies of all tracks here at last.fm.

You can find all information about the album here in the discography.

One day after the re-release of “I’m Just Someone Who Looks A Bit Like Me” there’s another record of Southern Wire Ends coming out again: the follow-up and more electro-influenced album “It’s Not”, previously released as “It’s Not (The Screens)”.

“It’s Not” contains songs like “The Amaru Urn, “Living Other People’s Lives”, the title track (which has been released as a single) and the epic closer “The Dark Side Of The Room”, for example. You can download legal copies of all tracks here at last.fm.

You can find all information about the album here in the discography.

The first release of Southern Wire Ends is online: a re-release of “I’m Just Someone Who Looks A Bit Like Me” – a concept album previously released by The Screens in 2007.

The release contains The Screens songs like “Dented Soul”, “Continuation Of An Interrupted Fax Transmission”, “Hurting On Purpose” and more. You can download legal copies of the tracks here at last.fm.

You can find all information about the album here in the discography.

The official homepage of Southern Wire Ends (former known as The Screens) is online.

Updates and new stuff are coming soon!