wire: january 2014

Our massive annual survey of the past 12 months in underground music, including the Top 50 Releases of the Year, the Top 50 Archive Releases of the Year, and a mass of genre charts, all voted for by our crack squad of contributors, who also give us their personal highs and lows of 2013. We also ask a number of the year's most active musicians and players to deliver their verdicts on the cultural year, plus take an in depth look at some of the year's lesser commented on trends and developments, including: Simon Reynolds on monumentalist reissues; Clive Bell on the rebirth of new age; Rory Gibb on the year of the breakbeat; Agata Pyzik on experimental music and nationalism and more.