The Wire: Top 50 Releases of 2018
[see also 2019, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011]
- Sons of Kemet — Your Queen Is a Reptile
- ZULI — Terminal
- Ben Lamar Gay — Downtown Castles Can Never Block the Sun
- Guttersnipe — My Mother the Vent
- JPEGMAFIA — Veteran
- Sarah Davachi — Let Night Come On Bells End the Day
- Senyawa — Sujud
- Autechre — NTS Sessions 1-4
- Body/Head — The Switch
- Low — Double Negative
- Jerusalem in My Heart — Daqa'iq Tudaiq
- Julia Holter — Aviary
- Eli Keszler — Stadium
- Proc Fiskal — Insula
- Oneohtrix Point Never — Age Of
- Tyshawn Sorey — Pillars
- Lea Bertucci — Metal Aether
- Pusha T — Daytona
- Eartheater — IRISIRI
- Nordra — Pylon II
- Tirzah — Devotion
- Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt — Brace Up!
- Dedekind Cut — Tahoe
- Jeane Grae & Quelle Chris — Everything's Fine
- Hannah Silva — Talk in a bit
- Kate NV — для FOR
- Josephine Foster — Faithful Fairy Harmony
- Agnarkea — Black Helicopters
- Hailu Mergia — Lala Belu
- Jim O’Rourke — Sleep Like It's Winter
- Anne Guthrie — Brass Orchids
- Eiko Ishibashi — The Dream My Bones Dream
- Laurel Halo — Raw Silk Uncut Wood
- Cucina Povera — Hilja
- Kamaal Williams — The Return
- Vessel — Queen of Golden Dogs
- Embassador Dulgoon — Hydrorion Remnants
- Noname — Room 25
- Jlin — Autobiography
- Grouper — Grid of Points
- Yo La Tengo — There’s a Riot Going On
- Helena Hauff — Qualm
- Nkisi — The Dark Orchestra
- Gazelle Twin — Pastoral
- Gaye Su Akyol — İstikrarlı Hayal Hakikattir
- Jon Hassell — Listening To Pictures (Pentimento, Vol. One)
- Ipek Gorgun — Ecce Homo
- Park Jiha — Communion
- Musarc/Neil Luck — Bloody Sirens
- Yves Tumor — Safe in the Hands of Love