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The Wire Top 50 2009
Thoughts? Pretty solid list based on the ones I've heard, no glaring omissions that spring to mind. Fairly predictable number 1, a few surprises in there though. Wouldn't have expected The XX especially.
1.Broadcast and The Focus Group – Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age
2.Oneohtrix Point Never – Rifts
3.Bill Orcutt – A New Way To Pay Old Debts
4.Alasdair Roberts – Spoils
5.Sunn O))) – Monoliths and Dimensions
6.David Sylvian – Monafon
7.Group Doueh – Treeg Salam
8.Jim O'Rourke – The Visitor
9.Ben Frost – By The Throat
10.King Midas Sound – Waiting For You
11.Harappian Night Recordings - The Glorious Gongs Of Hainuwele
12.Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
13.Shackleton - 3 EPs
14.Sa-Ra Creative Partners - Nuclear Evolution: The Age Of Love
15.AtomTM - Liedgut
16.Mordant Music - SyMptoMs
17.Masayuki Takayanagi - Archive 1
18.Matias Aguayo - Ay Ay Ay Kompakt
19.Hecker - Acid In The Style Of David Tudor
20.William Basinski - 92982
21.The xx – xx
22.Flower-Corsano Duo - The Four Aims
23.Gary War - Horribles Parade
24.Courtis/Moore - Brokebox Juke
25.Leyland Kirby - Sadly The Future Is No Longer What It Was
26.Group Bombino - Guitars From Agadez Vol 2
27.Peter Evans - Nature/Culture
28.Kevin Drumm - Imperial Horizon Hospital Productions
29.Dãm-Funk - Toeachizown Stones Throw
30.Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion
31.Pan Sonic & Keiji Haino - Shall I Download A Black Hole And Offer
32.Moritz Von Oswald Trio - Vertical Ascent
33.MEV - MEV 40
34.Black Dice – Repo
35.Emeralds – What Happened
36.Position Normal – Position Normal
37.Belbury Poly - From An Ancient Star
38.Julie Tippetts & Martin Archer - Ghosts Of Gold
39.Billy Bao - May 08
40.Sun Araw – Heavy Deeds
41.Richard Youngs – Under Stellar Stream
42.Subway - Subway II
43.Lionel Marchetti & Oliver Capparos - Equus
44.The Stooges - You Don’t Want My Name You Want My Action: 1971 The Missing Link
45.Eliane Radigue - Triptych Important
46.Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
47.Glenn Jones - Barbecue Bob In Fishtown
48.Black To Comm - Alphabet 1968
49.Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
50.Hildur Gudnadóttir - Without Sinking