The Wire Top 50 Albums of 2014

Aphex Twin's Syro is the #1 album in 2014 for critics of The Wire, the influential british magazine focused on avant garde, underground and contemporary music. Richard Dawson is #2, Swans #3. This is a quite "different" chart, where you'll find just few artists that are occupying other EOY rock lists (besides Aphex Twin and Swans, Sleaford Mods, Run The Jewels, Owen Pallett, Ariel Pink, Flying Lotus...). No room for The War On Drugs, FKA Twigs, St Vincent...

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Rolling Stone Top 50 Albums of 2014
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THE WIRE TOP 50 ALBUMS OF 2014

(from #1 to #50, full albums)

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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!