Burial Burial (Hyperdub) Scott Walker The Drift (4ad) Joanna Newsom Ys (Drag City) Carla Bozulich Evangelista (Constellation) Wolf Eyes Human Animal (Sub Pop) Ornette Coleman Sound Grammar (Sound ...

The Bug London Zoo (Ninja Tune) Philip Jeck Sand (Touch) The Hospitals Hairdryer Peace (No label) John Butcher Resonant Spaces (Confront) Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry) The ...

On the cover: David Lynch & Chrystabell : As their new album Cellophane Memories marks the culmination of 20-plus years of collaboration, the director and singer unpack their dream-like songs over a ...

Below The Radar Below The Radar is an ongoing series of underground music compilations that are made available to all The Wire ’s subscribers as downloads. For more information on how to subscribe to ...

What album was so important that ten million copies of it needed to be pressed at once? Readers of a music magazine might be surprised to learn the identity of the greatest single pressing of any ...

Read an interview with the late composer Bernard Parmegiani, by Rahma Khazam. First published in The Wire 176, October 1998.

On Air Adventures In Sound And Music is The Wire ’s weekly show on Resonance 104.4 FM. It is broadcast in Central London on 104.4 FM and DAB between 9–10:30pm every Thursday, with simultaneous ...

Issue 493 March 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 493. Inside our brand new issue: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on ...

Issue 495 May 2025 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 495. Inside our brand new issue: aya: New album hexed! explores sobriety and neurodiversity through radical ...

The Wire ’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

Listen to a selection of tracks from this year's Top 50 Releases Of The Year, as voted for by The Wire 's contributors. You can read more about the artists featured in our chart, as well as those ...

Issue 488 October 2024 Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha ...