The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2014

1. Aphex Twin - Syro2. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important3. Swans - To Be Kind4. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused5. Actress - Ghettoville6. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit7. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty8. Run The Jewels - RTJ29. Kasai Allstars - Beware The Fetish10. Fatima Al Qadiri - Asiatisch11. Earth - Primitive and Deadly12. Steve Gunn - Way Out Weather13. Grouper - Ruins14. Valerio Tricoli - Miseri Lares15. Eliane Radigue - Naldjorlak I II II16. Marc Baron - Hidden Tapes17. Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss18. Rodhri Davies - An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance19. Michael Pisaro - Continuum Unbound20. AMM - Place sub. v.21. Thumbscrew - Thumbscrew22. Puce Mary - Persona23. Cooly G. - Wait 'Til Night24. Skogen - Despairs Had Governed Me Too Long25. Carla Bozulich - Boy26. Dean Blunt - Black Metal27. Freddie Gibbs & Madlib - Pinata28. Annea Lockwood - Ground Of Being29. Wadada Leo Smith - The Great Lakes Suite30. Call Super - Suzi Ecto31. Steve Gunn & Mike Gangloff - Melodies For A Savage Fix32. Jenny Hval & Susanna - Meshes Of Voice33. Matthew Shipp - I've Been To Many Places34. Holly Herndon - Chorus35. Laurence Crane - Chamber Works 1992-200736. Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing37. Klaus Lang - SAIS38. Bitchin' Bajas - Bitchin' Bajas39. Laetitia Sadler - Something Shines40. drcarlsonalbion - Gold41. Helm - The Hollow Organ42. Joseph Hammer - Roadless Travel43. Oren Ambarchi - Quixotism44. Laura Cannell - Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth45. Howard Riley - To Be Continued...46. Owen Pallett - In Conflict47. Ariel Pink - pom pom48. Akio Suzuki & Aki Onda - ma ta ta bui49. Pharmakon - Bestial Burden50. Flying Lotus - You're Dead!

The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2013

1. Julia Holter - Loud City Song2. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain3. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notational Species vol 14. Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk5. Tim Hecker - Virgins6. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven7. RP Boo - Legacy8. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors9. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs10. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual11. Kanye West - Yeezus12. DJ Rashad - Double Cup13. Autechre - Exai14. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile15. Dennis Johnson - November16. Pharmakon - Abandon17. Okkyung Lee - Ghil18. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds19. eMMplekz - Your Crate Has Changed20. Main - Ablation21. My Bloody Valentine - mbv22. Fire! Orchestra - Exit23. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest24. Alasdair Roberts and Friends - A Wonder Working Stone25. Young Echo - Nexus26. Dean Blunt - The Redeemer27. James Holden - The Inheritors28. Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs29. Eliane Radigue - Psi 84730. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety31. Else Marie Pade and Jacob Kirkegaard - Svaevninger32. The Dead C - Armed Courage33. Various Artists -The Outer Church34. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris35. Forest Swords - Engravings36. Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back37. AtomTM - HD38. Ashley Paul - Line The Clouds39. The Necks - Open40. Endless Boogie - Long Island41. G*Park - Sub42. Juana Molina - Wed 2143. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap44. Special Request - Soul Music45. Stellar OM Source - Joy One Mile46. John Wizards - John Wizards47. James Ferraro - NYC, Hell 3:00am48. Call Back The Giants - The Marianne49. Grumbling Fur - Glynnaestra50. Jem Finer and Andrew Kotting - Visionary Seascapes