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2023 Rewind
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Inside this issue of Wire:
Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes
Critics’ Reflections: Our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year
Columnists’ Charts: Our specialist critics delve deep... Read More
Inside this issue of Wire:
Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes
Critics’ Reflections: Our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year
Columnists’ Charts: Our specialist critics delve deep into their musical niches from noise to modern composition
Archive Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten archive records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes.
Engineered Phantoms: AI for the masses. By Abi Bliss
Back to the Land: Strange as folk. By Louis Pattison
Rival Camps: Crossing the streams. By Britt Brown
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Artists and Gaza. By GAIKA
Invisible Jukebox: Linton Kwesi Johnson: The veteran reggae poet faces down The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Gabriel Bristow
Laetitia Sadier: The Stereolab founder promotes community and healing with her new solo work. By Claire Biddles
Fred Frith: The Henry Cow co-founder returns to his groundbreaking 1974 album Guitar Solos with a reissue and a new album. By Clive Bell
Unlimited Editions: Bead Records
Unofficial Channels: Lanner Chronicle
Phil Geraldi: Road head music. By Emily Bick
HUUUM: Viennese whirl. By Ilia Rogatchevski
Lisa Ullén: Piano magic. By Peter Margasak
Thomas Ignatius: Medieval synthpop. By Leah Kardos
Global Ear: Chicago Democracy and improv in the Midwest. By Levi Dayan
The Inner Sleeve: Vince Clarke on The Human League’s Travelogue
Epiphanies: Mariam Rezaei on Persian pitch-shifting
Print Run: Dancehall: The Rise Of Jamaican Dance Culture by Beth Lesser; Lost In Room: Mark Perry, Alternative TV And Related, 1977–1981 by Richard Johnson; Deep Blues 1960–1988 by Val Wilmer; Ukrainian Field Notes edited by Gianmarco Del Re; At The Vanguard Of Vinyl by Darren Mueller; Too Much Too Young: Rude Boys, Racism And The Soundtrack Of A Generation – The 2 Tone Records Story by Daniel Rachel; NOTHING IS POSSIBLE NERVOUSNESS, OR IMMORALITY DON’T WAIT TO BE HUNTED TO HIDE/ SPOILT HEALTH by TRS: The Fucking Terrible Receding Shapes, Trading As TRIPLE NEGATIVE
On Screen: Midori Takada: Japan On Film; Robert Fantinatto Subotnick Portrait Of An Electronic Music Pioneer
On Location: Recombinant Festival, San Francisco, US; Sir Richard Bishop, Edinburgh, UK; Week-End Fest, Cologne, Germany; Black Industrial | Noise Event 4: Ain Bailey, London, UK; Out.Fest, Barreiro, Portugal; Gonerfest 20, Memphis, US; Sonica Surge, Glasgow, UK; People Like Us, London, UK; Loraine James, San Francisco, US; Usurper: That’s That Then, Edinburgh, UK; Easter Margins Road 2 Redline Tour with OverMyBody Taipei, Taiwan; Donaueschinger Musiktage 2023, Donaueschingen, Germany
On Site: Val Wilmer Blue Moments, Black Sounds, London, UK; Meredith Monk: Calling, Munich, Germany; Barbara Ess Archives, New York, US
The Wire is an independent, monthly music magazine covering a wide range of alternative, underground and non-mainstream musics. The Wire celebrates and interrogates the most visionary and inspiring, subversive and radical, marginalised and undervalued musicians on the planet, past and present, in the realms of avant rock, electronica, hiphop, new jazz, modern composition, traditional musics and beyond. Passionate, intelligent and provocative