Year-End Lists

The Wire: Top 50 Albums of 2019

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1. I Was Real
   75 Dollar Bill
2. The Oracle
   Angel Bat Dawid
3. We Are on the Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration
   The Art Ensemble of Chicago
4. Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes
   Moor Mother
5. Morton Feldman Piano
   Philip Thomas
6. Lifetime
   Klein
7. The Sacrificial Code
   Kali Malone
8. The Mirror
   People Like Us
9. Mandatory Reality
   Joshua Abrams & Natural Information Society
10. Life Metal
    Sunn O)))
11. More Arriving
    Sarathy Korwar
12. GREY Area
    Little Simz
13. Kubali
    Mc Yallah & Debmaster
14. Himalaya
    Carl Stone
15. Fly or Die II: Bird Dogs of Paradise
    Jaimie Branch
16. Purple Mountains
    Purple Mountains
17. COIN COIN Chapter Four: Memphis
    Matana Roberts
18. No Home Record
    Kim Gordon
19. 1000 gecs
    100 gecs
20. All My Heroes Are Cornballs
    JPEGMAFIA
21. IGOR
    Tyler, The Creator
22. Songs from the Bardo
    Laurie Anderson, Tenzin Choegyal, & Jesse Paris Smith
23. When I Get Home
    Solange
24. Reach the Endless Sea
    Tunes of Negation
25. Where Future Unfolds
    Damon Locks & Black Monument Ensemble
26. Wrecked
    Zonal
27. Baroo
    Carl Stone
28. Solitude
    King Midas Sound
29. Occam Ocean 2
    Éliane Radigue
30. Parallel Persia
    Sote
31. Illegal Moves
    Sunwatchers
32. Bandana
    Freddie Gibbs & Madlib
33. For You and I
    Loraine James
34. James Tenney: Changes - 64 Studies for 6 Harps
    Nicholas Deyoe
35. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 4
    The Caretaker
35. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 5
    The Caretaker
35. Everywhere At The End Of Time – Stage 6
    The Caretaker
36. Wahala
    Yatta
37. Pyroclasts
    Sunn O)))
38. All The Many Peopls
    Jennifer Walshe
39. LP
    Big Stick
40. Magdalene
    FKA twigs
41. Ecstatic Computation
    Caterina Barbieri
42. 7 Directions
    Nkisi
43. Ghosteen
    Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
44. Hiding Places
    Billy Woods & Kenny Segal
45. Folly Bololey (Songs from Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottom)
    North Sea Radio Orchestra / John Greaves / Annie Barbazza
46. Uingizaji Hewa
    Duke
47. There Existed an Addiction to Blood
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48. Epitaph
    Jay Glass Dubs
49. The Flower and the Vessel
    Felicia Atkinson
50. Mechanical Flirtations
    Saint Abdullah