50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

In The Wire 491/492, John Brien argues that the humble compact disc offers efficient delivery of pure audio that bypasses the ...

Andy Battaglia's article Once Upon A Time in... Harlem, in The Wire 326, charts the history of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Centre. Opening in 1959, it was one of America's first electronic ...

Born in Oxford in the early 1960s, London based composer Laurence Crane is closely associated with British ensemble Apartment House, with who he's releasing a two disc set of minimalist chamber works ...

In The Wire 491/492, Stewart Smith reviews a new autobiography by the multi-instrumentalist, composer and poet ...

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 486. Inside our brand new issue: David Lynch & Chrystabell: As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20 ...

Steve Roach: Synthesizer worship with the Arizona ambient musician. By Ned Raggett; [Ahmed]: Revolutionary grooves from the radically minded Anglo-Swedish-French quartet. By Stewart Smith Clarissa ...

Read an extended version of Will Montgomery's Cross Platform article on Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda, master of the art of field recording. For 15 years, the Yokohama based artist Toshiya ...

Darren Cunningham’s supple, warm, second album of ‘R&B concrète’ was equal parts pop constructivism and humid club compulsiveness. Informed as much by 1980s pop as House and Techno, his meticulous ...

The 30 January edition of The Wire ’s weekly broadcast on Resonance FM and Resonance Extra featured music by Circuit Des Yeux ...

On paper Edgar Guest’s poems don’t do much for me but the early recordings of his readings of his poems are fantastic. Guest’s homespun philosophising reminds me a bit of vaudeville performer Will ...