Wire #477

On the cover of this issue of Wire: Irreversible Entanglements: With a new album in the can, the US quintet discuss freedom, community and dismantling the mechanisms of oppression. By Phil Freeman. Plus: The Primer: Jazz & Poetry: A user’s guide to the ongoing conversation between mighty music and vibrant verse. By David Grundy; Vanishing Twin: The London based art pop trio take a playful approach to retrofuturist psychedelia. By Claire Biddles; Invisible Jukebox: Matana Roberts: The Chicago born musician and multidisciplinary artist faces The Wire’s mystery record selection. Tested by Teju Adeleye. Also inside this issue: Carol Robinson; Tom Mudd; Hearsay; Marina Herlop; Unlimited Editions Gin&Platonic; Unofficial Channels Chocolate Monk Top Tens; Global Ear: Oaxaca; The Inner Sleeve by Val Wilmer; Epiphanies by Raphael Rogiński; many pages of reviews and much more.

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