The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2014

1. Aphex Twin - Syro

2. Richard Dawson - Nothing Important
3. Swans - To Be Kind
4. Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused
5. Actress - Ghettoville
6. Sleaford Mods - Divide and Exit
7. Shabazz Palaces - Lese Majesty
8. Run The Jewels - RTJ2
9. Kasai Allstars - 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 II
16. Marc Baron - Hidden Tapes
17. Kevin Drumm & Jason Lescalleet - The Abyss
18. Rodhri Davies - An Air Swept Clean Of All Distance
19. Michael Pisaro - Continuum Unbound
20. AMM - Place sub. v.
21. Thumbscrew - 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 - Pinata
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 1992-2007
36. Shackleton - Freezing Opening Thawing
37. Klaus Lang - SAIS
38. Bitchin' Bajas - Bitchin' Bajas
39. Laetitia Sadler - 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!

The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2013

1. Julia Holter - Loud City Song
2. Laurel Halo - Chance of Rain
3. Rashad Becker - Traditional Music of Notational Species vol 1
4. Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk
5. Tim Hecker - Virgins
6. Oneohtrix Point Never - R Plus Seven
7. RP Boo - Legacy
8. Wolf Eyes - No Answer: Lower Floors
9. Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Photographs
10. The Knife - Shaking The Habitual
11. Kanye West - Yeezus
12. DJ Rashad - Double Cup
13. Autechre - Exai
14. Matana Roberts - Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile
15. Dennis Johnson - November
16. Pharmakon - Abandon
17. Okkyung Lee - Ghil
18. These New Puritans - Field of Reeds
19. eMMplekz - Your Crate Has Changed
20. Main - Ablation
21. My Bloody Valentine - mbv
22. Fire! Orchestra - Exit
23. Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest
24. Alasdair Roberts and Friends - A Wonder Working Stone
25. Young Echo - Nexus
26. Dean Blunt - The Redeemer
27. James Holden - The Inheritors
28. Sleaford Mods - Austerity Dogs
29. Eliane Radigue - Psi 847
30. Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety
31. Else Marie Pade and Jacob Kirkegaard - Svaevninger
32. The Dead C - Armed Courage
33. Various Artists -The Outer Church
34. Earl Sweatshirt - Doris
35. Forest Swords - Engravings
36. Jessy Lanza - Pull My Hair Back
37. AtomTM - HD
38. Ashley Paul - Line The Clouds
39. The Necks - Open
40. Endless Boogie - Long Island
41. G*Park - Sub
42. Juana Molina - Wed 21
43. Chance The Rapper - Acid Rap
44. Special Request - Soul Music
45. Stellar OM Source - Joy One Mile
46. John Wizards - John Wizards
47. James Ferraro - NYC, Hell 3:00am
48. Call Back The Giants - The Marianne
49. Grumbling Fur - Glynnaestra
50. Jem Finer and Andrew Kotting - Visionary Seascapes