Inside The Wire 509 July 2026 Reviews 20 45 Reviews Index 46 Soundcheck New vinyl, CDs, downloads and streams, plus reissues and specialist columns, including: 47 Ambrose Akinmusire & Mary Halvorson Slo-mo sounds. By Gabriel Bristow 52 Boards Of Canada Into the fire. By Spenser Tomson 57 Father Dionysios Tabakis Amplifier worship. By Phil Freeman 71 Print Run New music books, including: 72 How Black Music Took Over The World Vibrate on. By Esi Eshun 74 On Screen New films and DVDs 75 On Location Recent live events, including: 76 Colour Out Of Space Dadaists and deckchairs. By Ilia Rogatchevski 81 Oscillation Mothership connections. By Peter Margasak 82 On Site Recent exhibitions and installations Features 8 Global Ear Sicilian capital Palermo's chaotic and rebellious past has created hardy soil for music subcultures. By Alexander Samuels 10 Unlimited Editions Daniyal Ahmed's Honiunhoni label seeks out Pakistani sounds far from the beaten track. By Francis Gooding 12 The Inner Sleeve Zoh Amba on Jason Molina's Let Me Go, Let Me Go, Let Me Go 14 Against The Grain Can cold oi shed its troubled inheritance? By Seth Wheeler 16 eoobe DIY electronics power the Amsterdam duo's esoteric musical vision. By Hannah Pezzack 18 Aldana Duoraan & Tomás Niesner Siberia meets Central Europe in guitar and mouth harp duets. By Miloš Hroch 98 Epiphanies Unconscious (and conscious) bias is still a part of the art world for Infinity Knives aka Tariq Ravelomanana 4 Masthead 6 Letters 44 Charts The Office Ambience and other playlists 92 Out There Festivals and other selected listings 96 Subscriptions Print, digital, downloads, CDs, plus selections from the online magazine library Invisible Jukebox: Richard Dawson Will The Wire's mystery record selection reverberate with the Newcastle singer-songwriter? Tested by Claire Biddles 30 Tomás Šenkyrík 24 Onilu The Czech field recordist tracks the sounds, habitats and natural activity in his local surroundings. By Daryl Worthington The Philadelphia ensemble are riding a new wave of radical percussion playing. By Phil Freeman 32 Jocy de Oliveira 26 DoYeon Kim The Brazilian nonagenarian's remarkable journey through piano, opera and vocal work is the subject of a new film. By Andy Cumming The bandleader and virtuoso gayageum player connects consciousness with the cosmos. By Stewart Smith 38 EarthBall The Canadian quintet's freeform punk aesthetic embodies the values of the close-knit Vancouver Island scene. By Emily Pothast Cover photography by Mayita Mendez and Davide Sartori