Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2017

1. Chino Amobi
   Paradiso
2. Richard Dawson
   Peasant
3. Klein
   Tommy
4. Jlin
   Black Origami
5. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith
   The Kid
6. Jana Rush
   Pariah
7. Joshua Abrams
   Simultonality
8. Pan Daijing
   Lack
9. Jaimie Branch
   Fly or Die
10. Circuit Des Yeux
    Reaching For Indigo
11. Actress
    AZD
12. Nadah El Shazly
    Ahwar
13. Ryuichi Sakamoto
    async
14. Felicia Atkinson
    Hand In Hand
15. Bill Orcutt
    Bill Orcutt
16. Irreversible Entanglements
    Irreversible Entanglements
17. Ellen Arkbro
    For Organ and Brass
18. Tyler, The Creator
    Flower Boy
19. Diamanda Galás
    All the Way
20. Mhysa
    Fantasii
21. Children Of Alice
    Children of Alice
22. Strange U
    #LP4080
23. Phew
    Voice Hardcore
24. The Bug & Earth
    Concrete Desert
25. Áine O’Dwyer
    Gallarais
26. Juana Molina
    Halo
27. SAICOBAB
    Sab Se Purani Bab
28. Golden Teacher
    No Luscious Life
29. Brooklyn Raga Massive
    Terry Riley in C
30. Sote
    Sacred Horror in Design
31. Laurel Halo
    Dust
32. Sarah Davachi
    All My Circles Run
33. Akio Suzuki & John Butcher
    Immediate Landscapes
34. Circle
    Terminal
35. Nicole Mitchell
    Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
36. Caterina Barbieri
    Patterns of Consciousness
37. SADAF
    SHELL
38. Lee Gamble
    Mnestic Pressure
39. Aaron Dilloway
    The Gag File
40. Karen Gwyer
    Rembo
41. Kendrick Lamar
    Damn
42. Once and Future Band
    Once and Future Band
43. Gnod
    Just Say No to the Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
44. Pancrace
    Pancrace
45. Lil B
    Black Ken
46. John Maus
    Screen Memories
47. Roscoe Mitchell
    Bells For the South Side
48. Carla dal Forno
    The Garden
49. Maalem Mahmoud Gania
    Colours of the Night
50. Gosheven
    Leaper