The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2017
[see also 2019, 2018, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Chino Amobi — Paradiso
- Richard Dawson — Peasant
- Klein — Tommy
- Jlin — Black Origami
- Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith — The Kid
- Jana Rush — Pariah
- Joshua Abrams — Simultonality
- Pan Daijing — Lack
- Jaimie Branch — Fly or Die
- Circuit Des Yeux — Reaching For Indigo
- Actress — AZD
- Nadah El Shazly — Ahwar
- Ryuichi Sakamoto — async
- Felicia Atkinson — Hand In Hand
- Bill Orcutt — Bill Orcutt
- Irreversible Entanglements — Irreversible Entanglements
- Ellen Arkbro — For Organ and Brass
- Tyler, The Creator — Flower Boy
- Diamanda Galás — All the Way
- Mhysa — Fantasii
- Children Of Alice — Children of Alice
- Strange U — #LP4080
- Phew — Voice Hardcore
- The Bug & Earth — Concrete Desert
- Áine O’Dwyer — Gallarais
- Juana Molina — Halo
- SAICOBAB — Sab Se Purani Bab
- Golden Teacher — No Luscious Life
- Brooklyn Raga Massive — Terry Riley in C
- Sote — Sacred Horror in Design
- Laurel Halo — Dust
- Sarah Davachi — All My Circles Run
- Akio Suzuki & John Butcher — Immediate Landscapes
- Circle — Terminal
- Nicole Mitchell — Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
- Caterina Barbieri — Patterns of Consciousness
- SADAF — SHELL
- Lee Gamble — Mnestic Pressure
- Aaron Dilloway — The Gag File
- Karen Gwyer — Rembo
- Kendrick Lamar — DAMN.
- Once and Future Band — Once and Future Band
- Gnod — Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
- Pancrace — Pancrace
- Lil B — Black Ken
- John Maus — Screen Memories
- Roscoe Mitchell — Bells For the South Side
- Carla dal Forno — The Garden
- Maalem Mahmoud Gania — Colours of the Night
- Gosheven — Leaper