Wire #490
£6.50
PACKED as usual with words about music.
"On the cover: AR Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds. Plus: Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley;... Read More
PACKED as usual with words about music.
"On the cover: AR Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up. By Simon Reynolds. Plus: Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is told via an extensive new reissue. By Julian Cowley; Cuntroaches: Berlin’s experimental noise punks tap into the sounds of the sewer. By Claire Biddles; Sun Yizhou: Beijing improvisors explore the appliance of science with household objects in everyday locations. By Daryl Worthington; Invisible Jukebox: Sun Araw: Will Cameron Stallones feel the warm glow of The Wire’s mystery record selection? Tested by Emily Pothast. Also inside this issue: Flickers From The Fen; Poppy H; Manja Ristić; Global Ear: Taipei; Unlimited Editions: Les Disques Lexi; The Inner Sleeve: Rojin Sharafi; Epiphanies: Sussan Deyhim; 34 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