Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2014

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