Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2014

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1. Syro
   Aphex Twin
2. Nothing Important
   Richard Dawson
3. To Be Kind
   Swans
4. Soused
   Scott Walker & Sunn O)))
5. Ghettoville
   Actress
6. Divide and Exit
   Sleaford Mods
7. Lese Majesty
   Shabazz Palaces
8. Run the Jewels 2
   Run the Jewels
9. Beware The Fetish
   Kasai All Stars
10. Asiatisch
    Fatima Al Qadiri
11. Primitive and Deadly
    Earth
12. Way Out Weather
    Steve Gunn
13. Ruins
    Grouper
14. Miseri Lares
    Valerio Tricoli
15. Naldjorlak I, II & III
    Eliane Radigue
16. Hidden Tapes
    Marc Baron
17. The Abyss
    Kevin Drumm and Jason Lescalleet
18. An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
    Rhodri Davies
19. Continuum Unbound
    Michael Pisaro
20. Place sub. v.
    AMM
21. Thumbscrew
    Mary Halvorson, Michael Formanek & Tomas Fujiwara
22. Persona
    Puce Mary
23. Wait ’til Night
    Cooly G
24. Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long
    Skogen
25. Boy
    Carla Bozulich
26. Black Metal
    Dean Blunt
27. Piñata
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
28. Ground of Being
    Annea Lockwood
29. The Great Lakes Suite
    Wadada Leo Smith
30. Suzi Ecto
    Call Super
31. Melodies for a Savage Fix
    Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff
32. Meshes of Voice
    Jenny Hval & Susanna
33. I’ve Been To Many Places
    Matthew Shipp
34. Chorus
    Holly Herndon
35. Chamber Works 1992-2009
    Laurence Crane
36. Freezing Opening Thawing
    Shackleton
37. Sais.
    Klaus Lang
38. Bitchin Bajas
    Bitchin Bajas
39. Something Shines
    Laetitia Sadier
40. Gold
    Drcarlsonalbion
41. The Hollow Organ
    Helm
42. Roadless Travel
    Joseph Hammer
43. Quixotism
    Oren Ambarchi
44. Quick Sparrows Over the Black Earth
    Laura Cannell
45. To Be Continued
    Howard Riley
46. In Conflict
    Owen Pallett
47. Pom Pom
    Ariel Pink
48. ma ta ta bui
    Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda
49. Bestial Burden
    Pharmakon
50. You’re Dead!
    Flying Lotus