Ghost of Harry Smith wrote:And here's The Quietus' list of Top 100 albums, which has some crossover with The Wire.
The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2017
1: Richard Dawson - Peasant
2: Zimpel/Ziołek - Zimpel/Ziołek
3: Fever Ray - Plunge
4: The Moonlandingz - Interplanetary Class Classics
5: Nadine Shah - Holiday Destination
6: Kelela - Take Me Apart
7: James Holden & The Animal Spirits - The Animal Spirits
8: Princess Nokia - 1992
9: Lone Taxidermist - Trifle
10: Oxbow - Thin Black Duke
11: Liars - TFCF
12: Lotto - VV
13: Call Super - Arpo
14: Snapped Ankles - Come Play The Trees
15: Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs - Feed The Rats
16: Laura Cannell - Hunter Huntress Hawker
17: GNOD - Just Say No To The Psycho Right-Wing Capitalist Fascist Industrial Death Machine
18: Jane Weaver - Modern Kosmology
19: Circle - Terminal
20: Rûwâhîne - Ifriqiyya Electrique
21: Man Forever - Play What They Want
22: Madonnatron - Madonnatron
23: Endon - Through The Mirror
24: Algiers - The Underside Of Power
25: Justin Walter - Unseen Forces
26: BNNT - The Multiverse
27: $hit & $hine - Total Shit!
28: Nicole Mitchell - Mandorla Awakening II: Emerging Worlds
29: Vanishing - Vanishing
30: Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
31: Björk - Utopia
32: Arca - Arca
33: Thurston Moore - Rock N Roll Consciousness
34: Re-TROS - Before The Applause
35: Jlin - Black Origami
36: Kemper Norton - Hungan
37: Chloe x Halle - The Two Of Us
38: The Granite Shore - Suspended Second
39: The Caretaker - Everywhere At The End Of Time - Stage 3
40: Teleplasmiste - Frequency Is The New Ecstasy
41: Botanist - Collective: The Shape Of He To Come
42: British Sea Power - Let The Dancers Inherit The Party
43: Al-Namrood - Enkar
44: LCD Soundsystem - American Dream
45: Visible Cloaks - Reassemblage
46: Perc - Bitter Music
47: Gazelle Twin - Kingdom Come
48: Gary Numan - Savage
49: Errorsmith - Superlative Fatigue
50: Alan Vega - IT
51: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Kid
52: Deaf Kids - Configuração do Lamento
53: The Inward Circles - And Right Lines Limit And Close All Bodies
54: I, Ludicrous - Songs From The Sides Of Lorries
55: Japan Blues - Sells His Record Collection
56: Powertrip - Nightmare Logic
57: Riddlore - Afro Mutations
58: Chastity Belt - I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone
59: Godflesh - Post Self
60: Davy Kehoe - Short Passing Game
61: Total Leatherette - For The Climax Of The Night
62: Electric Wizard - Wizard Bloody Wizard
63: Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement - Ambient Black Magic
64: Colleen - A Flame My Love, A Frequency
65: J Hus - Common Sense
66: Unsane - Sterilize
67: Ryuichi Sakamoto - Async
68: SZA - Ctrl
69: Lee Gamble - Mnestic Pressure
70: MXLX - Kicking Away At The Decrepit Walls Til The Beautiful Sunshine Blisters Thru The Cracks
71: Siavash Amini - TAR
72: Yossarians - Fabric Of Time
73: UUUU - UUUU
74: Hey Colossus - The Guillotine
75: Sleaford Mods - English Tapas
76: Sote - Sacred Horror In Design
77: Laraaji - Bring On The Sun
78: Stormzy - Gang Signs & Prayer
79: Laibach - Also Sprach Zarathustra
80: STILL - I
81: Targ - Bargou 08
82: Aquaserge - Laisse ça être
83: M.E.S.H. - Hesaitix
84: Part Chimp - IV
85: Daniel O'Sullivan - Veld
86: Mario Batkovic - Mario Batkovic
87: Wire - Silver/Lead
88: Laurel Halo - Dust
89: MHYSA - Fantasii
90: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard - Murder Of The Universe
91: Hannah Peel - Mary Casio: Journey To Cassiopeia
92: Here Lies Man - Here Lies Man
93: Mogwai - Every Country's Sun
94; Actress - AZD
95: Rose Dougall - Stellular
96: Simon Fisher Turner - Giraffe
97: Cardi B - Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2
98: Akatombo - Short Fuse
99: The Bug Vs Earth - Concrete Desert
100: Tetragrammacide - Primal Incinerators Of Moral Matrix
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