Inside this issue
Rewind Specials:
Releases of the year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top 10 records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we counted up the votes
Critics’ reflections: Our contributors look back on 2016’s cultural highs and lows
The Social Network: Robert Barry on the growing importance of the collective
We Are The Music Makers: Sam Underwood on inventor musicians
Justice For All: Laina Dawes on race and resistance
The Enigma Machine: Keith Fullerton Whitman on the fallen heroes of the Buchla synthesizer
Patronising Behaviour: Rory Gibb on corporate interference
Columnists’ charts: Our specialist critics select music that rocked their corner of the subculture, from avant rock to the outer limits
Artists’ reflections: A cast of 2016’s most active movers and shakers shines the spotlight on their cultural year
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