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The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full ...

Born in Oxford in the early 1960s, London based composer Laurence Crane is closely associated with British ensemble Apartment House, with who he's releasing a two disc set of minimalist chamber works ...

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Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as those featured in ...

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50 records of the year as voted for by The Wire's writers.

Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes ...

Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 474. Inside our brand new issue: Annea Lockwood: Having explored the outer reaches of sound across a multi-decade career ...

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