The Similarities Engine

Albums similar to Drums and Wires

These are the albums most often named alongside XTC - Drums and Wires by people listing five favorite records. If you are looking for artists similar to XTC, this is where their listeners went. Nobody wrote these recommendations and no algorithm guessed at them: every album below is one that a real person put on the same list.

  1. Jam - Dig the New Breed
  2. Meshuggah - Immutable
  3. Pere Ubu - Cloudland
  4. Dukes of Stratosphere - Psonic Psunspot
  5. Jane Siberry - No Borders Here
  6. Talk Talk - It’s My Life
  7. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
  8. The Stranglers - The Raven
  9. Graham Parker - The Mona Lisa’s Sister
  10. The Stranglers - Black and White
  11. Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures
  12. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
  13. Robyn Hitchcock - Element of Light
  14. David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
  15. Jill Sobule - Jill Sobule
  16. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
  17. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
  18. Robyn Hitchcock - Eye
  19. Elvis Costello - Brutal Youth
  20. Aphex Twin - …I Care Because You Do
  21. Captain Beefheart - Trout Mask Replica
  22. Frank Zappa - Hot Rats
  23. R.E.M. - Reckoning
  24. The Clash - London Calling
  25. Yes - Fragile
  26. Paul Simon - Graceland
  27. Nirvana - In Utero

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