Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2017

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