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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