THE WIRE – Records Of The Year (January 2011):
1. ACTRESS – Splazsh
2. ONEOHTRIX POINT NEVER – Returnal
3. SWANS – My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
4. JOANNA NEWSOM – Have One On Me
5. CATHERINE CHRISTER HENNIX – The Electric Harpsichord
6. RANGERS – Suburban Tours
7. ARIEL PINK’S HAUNTED GRAFFITI – Before Today
8. JOHN TILBURY & SEBASTIAN LEXER – Lost Daylight Another Timbre
9. KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN – Disingenuity/Disingenuousness
10. KEVIN DRUMM – Necro Acoustic
11. SUN CITY GIRLS – Funeral Mariachi
12. ANNETTE KREBS & TAKU UNAMI – Motubachii
13. SUN ARAW – On Patrol
14. GONJASUFI – A Sufi And A Killer
15. BIG BOI – Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty
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. JOHN TILBURY/MICHAEL DUCH/RHODRI DAVIES – Cornelius Cardew: Works 1960–70
28. HYPE WILLIAMS – Hype Williams
29. LAURIE ANDERSON – Homeland
30. KONONO NO 1 – Assume Crash Position
31. ZS – New Zealand
32. PHEW – Five Finger Discount
33. SABBATH ASSEMBLY – Restored To One
34. DEREK BAILEY – More 74
35. SEIJAKU – Mail From Fushitsusha
36. TYLER THE CREATOR – Bastard
37. MOON WIRING CLUB – A Spare Tabby At The Cat’s Wedding
38. LARRY POLANSKY – The World’s Longest Melody
39. ALASDAIR 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 – Prins Thomas
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 – Grinderman 2
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Hey man, why don't we make a tune... just playin' the melody, not play the solos...