Aphex Twin Syro tops The Wire's end-of year poll

Yes, as outlined above, RDJ tops The Wire's 2014 poll (beating out Swans at no.3, Actress at no.5, RTJ2 at no.9).

Will post more, including full list, when I get home from work in a couple of hours.

**RTJ2 is actually no.8...Flying Lotus brings up the rear at no.50

The Wire: Releases of the Year 1-50

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 - Run The Jewels 2
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

(copy and pasted from ILX)

Isn't that Elaine Radique is from 2013? All in all a pretty nice list! Reminds me I completely forgot about Holly Herndon, drcarlsonalbion and Ambarchi...

Gz aphex

Lotus is already dead what a lol

i'm sorry but Actress - Ghettoville is better than Swans - To Be Kind & Scott Walker and Sunn O))) - Soused... it's my opinion...

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This is pretty big for Aphex. Wire is The reference regarding leftfield and experimental music. It's awesome that they acknowledge him in such an ecstatic way.

Why isn't A U R O R A there? Actress is too high on that list, for me.

It isn't that good

for FlyLo, i'm not surprized, 'cause his album sounds dirty & crappy & is not the best sound in compare to his previous albums... He wanted to do both a jazzy and dirty style... To make a dirty trick, he should see the work of Matmos... Because its there quickly boring to listen force...

Any links or pics?

Ariel Pink is not my cup of tea... His album Pom Pom is so shitty for me... LOL - Poor FlyLo...

  On 12/12/2014 at 12:21 PM, Consul said:

Any links or pics?

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  On 12/12/2014 at 9:21 PM, toosharp said:

 

  On 12/12/2014 at 12:21 PM, Consul said:

Any links or pics?

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it's pretty amazing how much the Wire has lost it's edge in terms of being a curator of obscure or underground music. Not to say a lot of those releases on that list are great or warranted, but wow.

it's a virtually identical list to what I would expect from something like Factmag, Pitchfork or Boomkat

Can someone please post the pitchfork list when it's out so that John understands that he's wrong. Thanks.

  On 12/13/2014 at 11:06 AM, trananhhung said:

Can someone please post the pitchfork list when it's out so that John understands that he's wrong. Thanks.

ok that was a stretch, but I mean seriously don't these people look outside of their promo inboxes for new electronic music? Its depressing

  On 12/17/2014 at 5:08 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

 

  On 12/13/2014 at 11:06 AM, trananhhung said:

Can someone please post the pitchfork list when it's out so that John understands that he's wrong. Thanks.

ok that was a stretch, but I mean seriously don't these people look outside of their promo inboxes for new electronic music? Its depressing

 

Overall agree with you but check out some of the releases on The Wire contributor's Outer Limits chart. I think that might be what you're after.