SV Stop 268: Wire Chart 2021

Nine years on this now. When I get to Year 15 I'm going to insist that The Wire print it. Or perhaps a list of my 15 records of the year(s). Whatever. For this year here's my 2021 set of acquisitions, all according to the criterion “buying one record reviewed in The Wire each month” – plus three more to make up a proper Wire 15 chart. For reference, the previous eight years’ worth can be found here: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.

The # marks denote the issues in which the records featured.
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SubVersion 2021 15

#443 Israel Vines - And Now We Know Nothing (Interdimensional Transmissions)
#444 Venus Ex Machina - Lux (AD 93)
#445 Futari - Beyond (Libra)
#446 Various - Miniatures 2020 (The 62nd Gramophone Company)
#447 Hedvig Mollestad Trio - Ding Dong. You’re Dead (Rune Grammofon)
#448 Lauren Sarah Hayes - Embrace (Superpang)
#449 Emma-Jean Thackray - Yellow (Movementt)
#450 Dal:um - Similar & Different (tak:til)
#451 Consorts - Distinctions (Spoonhunt)
#452 Keiji Haino / Jim O’Rourke / Oren Ambarchi - Each side has a depth of 5 seconds · A polka dot pattern in horizontal array · A flickering that moves vertically (Black Truffle)
#453 Phew - New Decade (Mute)
#453 Gordan - Down in the Meadow (Morphine)

+#447 Paranoise - Noizu / The 2nd Act (Skank Bloc)
+#450 Siderean - Lost on Void’s Horizon (Edged Circle)
+#453 Threshing Floor - Threshing Floor (El Studio 444 / Reboot)

Compiled by Jonathan Tait, subvertcentral.blogspot.co.uk
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And my record of the year for 2021: New Decade. Usually when I choose a record of the year, it's quite clear to me what it should be. Not this year. I had to listen to each of the monthly picks again. Phew won out.