The Wire's AOTY 2016 list

1. David Bowie – Blackstar
2. Beyonce - Lemonade
3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones
4. Autechre – elseq 1-5
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – The Skeleton Tree
6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
7. Rihanna - Anti
8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
9. Gaika – Security
10. Jessy Lanza - Oh No
11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever
12. Solange – A Seat At The Table
13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris
15. Babyfather – BBF Hosted By DJ Escrow
16. Future - Purple Reign
17. Anna Meredith – Varmints
18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
19. A Tribe Called Quest – We Got It From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service
20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It's Like
21. Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
23. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
24. Rae Sremmurd - SremmLife 2
25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement
26. Kaytranada - 99%
27. Steve Gunn – Eyes On The Lines
28. The Weeknd - STARBOY
29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II
30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow
31. Scott Walker – The Childhood Of A Leader OST
32. Deadmau5 - W:/2016ALBUM/
33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
34. Anderson .Paak - Malibu
35. D.R.A.M. - BIG BABY D.R.A.M.
36. Anxiety – Anxiety
37. Skepta – Konnichiwa
38. Puce Mary – The Spiral
39. Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
40. Lady Gaga - Joanne
41. Horse Lords – Interventions
42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q
43. Frank Ocean – Blonde
44. Thalia Zedek Band – Eve
45. The 1975 - I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It
46. Young Thug - Jeffery
47. Jackie Lynn – Jackie Lynn
48. Zomby – Ultra
49. Klara Lewis – Too
50. Drake - Views

How can you defend this garbage?

(You)

some of us actually subscribe so you can't pull a fast one like this

nice try pitchfork

t. wire shills

hmmm maybe Sup Forums was wrong and the black artists are actually good and talented but we're too deep in our counter-agenda to see that

What's the problem?

It's a nice mix of pop and experimental.

why would you change it to take off 75 dollar bill?

>1. David Bowie – Blackstar
>2. Beyonce - Lemonade

shat myself already, shant be reading anymore

t. pitchfork staff

this. that album was fucking great.

>this is supposed to be the cutting edge of avant-garde music journalism

Any list that has Beyonce and Rihanna in the top ten is irrelevant

>39. Metallica - Hardwired...To Self-Destruct
>40. Lady Gaga - Joanne
wtf

hahahahahahhahaha

>he spent that much time editing wire's list to include pop bullshit

WEW

there's some kind of meme campaign to both claim that the wire is a bunch of prentious elitists who circlejerk of the most obscure shit possible and discredit the wire as being a "fake experimental" and "poptimist" publication worse than the likes of pitchfork

>Frank Ocean at 43
this is a joke

Why?

albumoftheyear.org/list/685-the-wires-best-releases-of-2016/

The actual list.

It's too low. Blonde was a masterpiece.

The truth is in the middle, this year's list did have more mainstream/p4k shit. They didn't even go indepth into many of the albums they had in that list. It was a bit weird.

>magazine that focuses primarily on experimental, avant-garde, and underground music doesn't rank a mainstream RnB singer highly
Gee, I wonder why...

The actual list, if anyone cares. There are still a few pop albums.


1. David Bowie – Blackstar
2. Shirley Collins – Lodestar
3. Moor Mother – Fetish Bones
4. Autechre – elseq 1-5
5. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds – Skeleton Tree
6. Jenny Hval – Blood Bitch
7. Noura Mint Seymali – Arbina
8. Yves Tumor – Serpent Music
9. Gaika – SECURITY
10. Mark Ernestus’ Ndagga Rhythm Force – Yermande
11. Gate – Saturday Night Fever
12. Solange – A Seat at the Table
13. Kanye West – The Life of Pablo
14. Oren Ambarchi – Hubris
15. Babyfather – “BBF” Hosted By DJ Escrow
16. 75 Dollar Bill – Wood / Metal / Plastic / Pattern / Rhythm / Rock
17. Anna Meredith – Varmints
18. Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith – EARS
19. A Tribe Called Quest – We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service
20. Carla dal Forno – You Know What It’s Like
21. David Toop – Entities Inertias Faint Beings
22. Leonard Cohen – You Want It Darker
23. Kendrick Lamar – Untitled Unmastered
24. Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids – We Be All Africans
25. Laura Cannell – Simultaneous Flight Movement

It's because the list was selected by their writers core staff, as well as the numerous freelance contributors who work for other publications that wrote for them this year as well.

That said, the list was a bit more mainstream/convential leaning that usual, but there were still some good choices in it and their coverage in the issues themselves is still the same.

*cont

26. Ectoplasm Girls – New Feeling Come
27. Steve Gunn – Eyes on the Lines
28. Ian William Craig – Centres
29. Matmos – Ultimate Care II
30. Laraaji & Sun Araw – Professional Sunflow
31. Scott Walker – The Childhood of a Leader (OST)
32. Bitchin Bajas & Bonnie “Prince” Billy – Epic Jammers and Fortunate Little Ditties
33. Elysia Crampton – Elysia Crampton Presents: Demon City
34. Katie Gately – Color
35. Shackleton with Ernesto Tomasini – Devotional Songs
36. Anxiety – Anxiety
37. Skepta – Konnichiwa
38. Puce Mary – The Spiral
39. The Dwarfs of East Agouza – Bes
40. Catherine Christer Hennix – Live At Issue Project Room
41. Horse Lords – Interventions
42. Roy Montgomery – R M H Q: Headquarters
43. Frank Ocean – Blonde
44. Thalia Zedek – Eve
45. Charlemagne Palestine – Cathédrale De Strasbourg
46. Kepler Quartet – Ben Johnston: String Quartets Nos. 6, 7, & 8
47. Circuit Des Yeux – Jackie Lynn
48. Zomby – Ultra
49. Klara Lewis – Too
50. Peder Mannerfelt – Controlling Body

>people think this garbage webzine is better than pitchfork
LMAO