Top Ten from
The Wire:
1. Burial - s/t
2. Scott Walker - The Drift
3. Joanna Newsom - Ys
4. Carla Bozulich - Evangelista
5. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal
6. Ornette Coleman - Sound Grammar
7. Ekkehard Ehlers - A Life Without Fear
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - The Letting Go
9. Om - Conference Of The Birds
10. Phill Niblock - Touch Three
The Wire had Scritti Politi "White Bread Black Beer" at #11 while Freedom honorably mentions it. That's the extent of their common ground.
I have the Wolf Eyes in my piles of Tower purchases and the Newsom on loan from the library.