wire: january 2017

Rewind 2016, our mammoth annual survey of the last 12 months of key underground music activity in 26 pages of crucial charts and critical comment. The Rewind issue includes our 50 new releases of the year and 50 archive releases of the year, along with specialist genre charts covering all bases from avant rock to jazz & improv via modern composition, dance, global and more. Plus: our crack team of critics and contributors, as well as some of 2016's most active musicians, give us their takes on the highs and lows of the cultural year.