Wire #491 / 492 Gan /Feb 2025

On the cover: 2024 Rewind: the Year in Underground Music, including the Top 50 New Releases of the Year, the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, our critics’s cultural reflections, our columnists’ genre charts and analyses, plus essays on healing sounds, feedback, noise, analogue tech, and compact discs. 

Plus: features on Bridget Hayden, YATTA, the history of algorithmic music, Sakina Abode, Oranssi Pazuzu, Black Rain, and Michael J Schumacher. In the regular sections: Invisible Jukebox: Pat Thomas, Global Ear: Zurich, Unlimited Editions: Strategic Tape Reserve, The Inner Sleeve: Pamela Z, Epiphanies: Rafael Toral. In the review sections: BEAM SPLITTER + Phil Minton, Emahoy Tsege-Mariam Gebru, eat-girls, Diemajin, The Haunting, Degradation x Iceman Junglist Kru, George Rayner-Law & Stonecirclesampler, Dominic Goodman, The High Llamas, Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Joe McPhee, feminist sound studies, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Semibreve, and much more.