måndag 7 Maj 2007, 14:24
I'm going to post my favorite 2007 releases in three parts. The first one I'm going to do now, the second one I'll do in another 4 months and the last one I'll post once the year is over. There are so many great albums out that it's a good way to keep track of all the releases and I also want to see how my current favorites will do in another 4 or 8 months.
This time I'm not really putting these in any exact order, just vaguely saying which albums I find the best, which great, good and so on. I have tried to put them in some order though, as in the best ones you'll find on the top of each list and the worst ones are on the bottom. Vaguely, that's the keyword. There are still a few releases I have not heard but hopefully I have managed to include most of the albums I have heard and formed an opinion of. As always, I'll try to avoid EP's but I'll include some really good ones.
This is obviously a very subjective list and I know some people aren't going to agree with some of my choices. But that's the way I feel and it's okay if you disagree. It would be boring if everyone liked the same music. :D Obviously I'd recommend any of the albums I liked!
That being said, the best of 2007 so far:
Album of the Year
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Other favorites
Blackfield - Blackfield II
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Lis Er Stille - Apathobvious
God Is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Kaddisfly - Set Sail the Prairie
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Devin Townsend - Ziltoid the Omniscient
Neurosis - Given to the Rising
Fields - Everything Last Winter
Logh - North
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
Sleepytime Gorilla Museum - In Glorious Times
Blonde Redhead - 23
Great Releases
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Huscy Rescue - Ghost Is Not Real
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Dälek - Abandoned Language
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
Eustacia - Demo 2007
Fair to Midland - Fables From A Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Eluvium - Copia
Amon Tobin - Foley Room
Battles - Mirrored
Caspian - Four Trees
Illinois - What the Hell Do I Know? (EP)
Jesu - Conqueror
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Dark Tranquillity - Fiction
Nadja - Thaumogenesis
Busdriver - RoadKillovercoat
Unsane - Visqueen
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Fuzz Orchestra - Fuzz Orchestra
Free the Robots - Free the Robots (EP)
Stars of the Lid - Stars of the Lid and Their Refinement of the Decline
Grayceon - Grayceon
SOIL&"PIMP" Sessions - Pimpoint
Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Farmakon - Robin
Shannon Wright - Let in the Light
El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead
The American Dollar - The Technicolour of Sleep
Air Formation - Daylight Storms
The Aliens - Astronomy for Dogs
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Yakuza - Transmutations
Moonsorrow - Viides Luku - Hävitetty
Pg.lost - Yes I Am (EP)
Au Revoir Simone - The Bird of Music
Good Releases
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Nick Drake - Family Tree
Pelican - City of Echoes
Tomahawk - Anonymous
Tunturia - Maps
From Autumn to Ashes - Holding a Wolf by the Ears
Marissa Nadler - Songs III: Bird on the Water
Feist - The Reminder
Electralane - No Shouts, No Calls
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters
The Cinematic Orchestra - Ma Fleur
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
CocoRosie - The Adventures of Ghosthorse & Stillborn
Papercuts - Can't Go Back
Anekdoten - A Time of Day
The Innocence Mission - We Walked in Song
The Besnard Lakes - Are the Dark Horse
Mice Parade - Mice Parade
Julian Fane - Our New Quarters
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Sage Francis - Human the Death Dance
Kamelot - Ghost Opera
Menomena - Friend and Foe
Efterklang - Under Giant Trees
Sans Arc - When Eye Meets Eye
Type O Negative - Dead Again
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Swallow the Sun - Hope
Tinariwen - Aman Iman: Water Is Life
Christian Fennesz-Ryuichi Sakamoto - Cendre
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
The Blarghhh
Novembers Doom - The Novella Reservoir
Twilightning - Swinelords
Biggest Disappointments
Marillion - Somewhere Else
Air - Pocket Symphony