Inside
The Wire 507 May 2026
Reviews
46 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including:
47 Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D Oberland Trauma response. By James Gui
55 Simon Hanes Gargantuan sounds. By Leah Kardos
69 La Musica Mainline to the Tokyo underground. By Louis Pattison
72 Print Run New music books, including:
73 Love Magic Power Danger Bliss: Yoko Ono And The Avant-Garde Diaspora 20th century woman. By Mark Webber
74 I Hear Freedom: The Great Migration, Free Jazz, And Black Power Urban renewal. By Andy Hamilton
75 On Screen New films and DVDs
77 On Location Recent live events, including:
79 bAdBLUEbirdz Mono no aware. By Anla Li
81 GLARCIVERSARY GLARCing around in Glasgow and London. By Claire Biddles
83 On Site Recent exhibitions, installations, etc.
45 Reviews Index
Features
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Global Ear Battle of the bells in Moretonhampstead, Devon. By Clive Bell
10 Unlimited Editions Outernational sounds by way of Brighton's Hive Mind label. By Daniel Spicer
12 The Inner Sleeve MIC on Black Sheep Wall's I'm Going To Kill Myself.
14 Against The Grain Deborah Nash on the transportive power of the jukebox.
16 Regan Bowering Under the drumskin. By Derek Walmsley
18 Holy Sun Opera House Sounding the corridors of the unconscious. By Stephanie Phillips
98 Epiphanies Young Adam Bohman's pocket money opens up a world of improvised music
4 Masthead
6 Letters
44 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists
92 Out There Festivals and other listings
96 Subscriptions Print, digital, downloads, CDs, plus selections from the online magazine library
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Invisible Jukebox: Irmin Schmidt
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Will the Can founder doo right by The Wire's mystery record selection? Tested by Leah Kardos
24 The Sleeves
Jair-Rohm Parker Wells
The bassist and composer channels the vibrations of ECM into his low end explorations. By Phil Freeman
Guitarists Tara Cunningham and Jack Cooper take a scalpel to indie pop. By Lucy Thraves
34 Delphine Dora
26 Brion Gysin
The French multi-instrumentalist fuses made up language and spiritual texts in her metaphysical music. By Miloš Hroch
38 Sunn 0)))
Collaborator Ramuntcho Matta reflects on the artist's freshly reissued Dreamachine album. By Daniel Spicer
The robed pair get lost in the woods of the Pacific Northwest for their new album. By Rob Turner
Cover illustration by Savage Pencil
