Listen to 82 tracks from 34 of The WIRE’s Top 50 albums from 2007 at Swen’s blog

The whole list: The WIRE – 50 Records of The Year 2007

The Wire is a British avant garde music magazine. It was founded in 1982 by jazz promoter Anthony Wood and journalist Chrissie Murray, and concentrated on contemporary jazz and improvised music. From about 1990 it branched out into covering left-field rock and “post-rock” (a term coined in the pages of The Wire), hip hop, modern classical, free improvisation and various forms of electronic music.