Wire switched the name of its annual critics' poll from Records of the Year to Releases of the Year. The change meant that critics could cast votes for "any self-contained audio entity, be it a vinyl LP, 12" EP, cassette, CD, download, mixtape, etc." Editor-in-chief Tony Herrington explained the reasoning and observed how it had changed critics' submissions: The cover design for the 2017 Rewind—published January 2018, issue number 407—was a work of interactive audiovisual art. Using a custom augmented reality app, a smart device's camera would show the abstract magazine cover as a three-dimensional, with accompanying audio. The project was cited in the 2019 book The Fundamentals of Graphic Design as "an immersive and dynamic experience perfectly reflecting the publication's long-running championing of experimental approaches to making and performing music." Critics' polls See also Pazz & Jop – a critics' poll conducted by The Village Voice HMV's Poll of Polls – music retailer HMV's aggregate year-end poll compiling various publications' polls (including The Wires), published from 1998–2012 Citations References External links Charts at — includes every Rewind poll since 1994, including genre specialist charts The Wire (magazine) 1986 establishments in the United Kingdom Annual events in the United Kingdom Annual magazine issues Experimental music Lists of albums Opinion polling in the United Kingdom Recurring events established in 1986