The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2014
[see also 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Aphex Twin — Syro
- Richard Dawson — Nothing Important
- Swans — To Be Kind
- Scott Walker & Sunn O))) — Soused
- Actress — Ghettoville
- Sleaford Mods — Divide and Exit
- Shabazz Palaces — Lese Majesty
- Run the Jewels — Run the Jewels 2
- Kasai All Stars — Beware The Fetish
- Fatima Al Qadiri — Asiatisch
- Earth — Primitive and Deadly
- Steve Gunn — Way Out Weather
- Grouper — Ruins
- Valerio Tricoli — Miseri Lares
- Eliane Radigue — Naldjorlak I, II & III
- Marc Baron — Hidden Tapes
- Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet — The Abyss
- Rhodri Davies — An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
- Michael Pisaro — Continuum Unbound
- AMM — Place sub. v.
- Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek & Tomas Fujiwara — Thumbscrew
- Puce Mary — Persona
- Cooly G — Wait ’til Night
- Skogen — Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long
- Carla Bozulich — Boy
- Dean Blunt — Black Metal
- Freddie Gibbs & Madlib — Piñata
- Annea Lockwood — Ground of Being
- Wadada Leo Smith — The Great Lakes Suite
- Call Super — Suzi Ecto
- Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff — Melodies for a Savage Fix
- Jenny Hval & Susanna — Meshes of Voice
- Matthew Shipp — I’ve Been To Many Places
- Holly Herndon — Chorus
- Laurence Crane — Chamber Works 1992-2009
- Shackleton — Freezing Opening Thawing
- Klaus Lang — Sais.
- Bitchin Bajas — Bitchin Bajas
- Laetitia Sadier — Something Shines
- Drcarlsonalbion — Gold
- Helm — The Hollow Organ
- Joseph Hammer — Roadless Travel
- Oren Ambarchi — Quixotism
- Laura Cannell — Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth
- Howard Riley — To Be Continued
- Owen Pallett — In Conflict
- Ariel Pink — Pom Pom
- Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda — ma ta ta bui
- Pharmakon — Bestial Burden
- Flying Lotus — You’re Dead!