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The Wire's Top 50 releases of 2010

01 Actress - Splazsh
02 Oneohtrix Point Never - Returnal
03 Swans - My father will guide me up a rope to the sky
04 Joanna Newsom - Have one on me
05 Catherine Christer Hennix - The electric harpsichord
06 Rangers - Suburban tours
07 Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti - Before today
08 John Tilbury & Sebastian Lexer - Last daylight
09 Keith Fullerton Whitman - Disengenuity/Disengenuousness
10 Kevin Drumm - Necro acoustic
11 Sun City Girls - Funeral mariachi
12 Annette Krebs & Taku Unami - Motobachii
13 Sun Araw - On patrol
14 Gonjasufi - A sufi and a killer
15 Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
16 Joe Colley - Disasters of self
17 Richard Skelton - Landings
18 Emeralds - Does it look like I'm here?
19 Eleh - Location momentum
20 Autechre - Oversteps
21 Helena Gough - Mikroklimata
22 Demdike Stare - Liberation through hearing
23 Marina Rosenfeld - Plastic materials
24 Bill Orcutt - Way down south
25 Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
26 Bellows - Handcut
27 Tilbury/Duch/Davies - Cornelius Cardew: Works 1960-1970
28 Hype Williams - s/t
29 Laurie Anderson - Homeland
30 Konono No 1 - Assume crash position
31 Zs - New slaves
32 Phew - Five finger discount
33 Sabbath Assembly - Restored to one
34 Derek Bailey - More 74
35 Seijaku - Mail from Fushitsua
36 Tyler the Creator - Bastard
37 Moon Wiring Club - A spare tabby at the cat's wedding
38 Larry Polansky - The world's largest melody
39 Alastair Galbraith - Mass
40 Jailbreak - The Rocker
41 oOoOO - oOoOO
42 Pedestrian Deposit - East fork/North fork
43 Group Inerane - Guitars from Agadez vol 3
44 Prins Thomas - s/t
45 These New Puritans - Hidden
46 Aldo Clementi - Works with flutes
47 Graham Lambkin & Jason Lescalleet - Air supply
48 Joseph Hammer - I love you, please love me too
49 Joshua Abrams - Natural information
50 Grinderman 2


The WIRE's Top 15 Electronica releases of 2010

Luke Abbott - Holkham Drones
J Biebz x Shamantis U Smile 800% Slower (Soundcloud)
James Blake - Klavierwerke (R&S)
Frank Bretschneider EXP (Raster-Noton)
Cluster - Qua (Klangbad)
Ekoplekz - Stalag Zero/Distended Dub (Punchdrunk)
Kangding Ray - Pruitt Igoe (Raster-Noton)
Lovesliescrushing - Crwth (Chorus Redux) (12k/Line)
Nest - Retold (Serein)
Philippe Petit - Off To Titan (Karl)
Raime Raime EP (Blackest Ever Black)
Nicholas Szczepanik Dear Dad (Basses Frequences)
T++ Wireless (Honest Jon’s)
David Tagg Pentecost (Install)
Vex’d Cloud Seed (Planet Mu)


The WIRE's Top Outer Limits releases of 2010

Alessandro Bosetti Zwölfzungen (Sedimental)
Cold Cave/Prurient Stars Explode (Hospital Productions)
Emeralds Does It Look Like I’m Here? (Editions Mego)
Evil Moisture If You Want To Fuck The Sky, Teach Your Cock To Fly (Ideal)
Robin Fox A Handful Of Automation (Editions Mego)
The Haters/Hal Hutchinson Xylowave 2010/Amplification II (Der Bunker)
Hum Of The Druid Norse Fumigation (SNSE)
Rolf Julius Music For The Ears: Small Music No 1 (Western Vinyl)
Keränen Bats In The Attic (Pica Disk)
Monos Above The Sky (ICR)
Pedestrian Deposit East Fork/North Fork (Monorail Trespassing)
Dave Phillips ? (Heart & Crossbone)
Sculpture Rotary Signal Emitter (Dekorder)
Sudden Infant My Life’s A Gunshot: Retrospective 1989– 2009 (Hrönir)
Vomir Renonce (Crucial Blaze)