Best of 2007

Here are my favorite albums that were released in the US or UK in 2007.

• 1. Ghosts - The World Is Outside [Vid: "Stay The Night"]
• 2. Thirteen Senses - Contact [Vid: "All The Love In Your Hands"]
• 3. Editors - An End Has a Start [Vid: "An End Has A Start"]
• 4. The Twang - Love It When I Feel Like This [Vid: "Either Way"]
• 5. Travis - The Boy with No Name [Vid: "Closer"]
• 6. Manic Street Preachers - Send Away the Tigers [Vid: "Your Love Alone..."]
• 7. Shout Out Louds - Our Ill Wills [Vid: "Impossible"]
• 8. Hard-Fi - Once Upon a Time In the West [Vid: "Can't Get Along"]
• 9. The Rosebuds - Night of the Furies [No vids from this album.]
• 10. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River [Vid: "Winter Windows"]

Runners-up:

• Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge [Vid: "Tonight The Streets Are Ours"]
• Soft - Gone Faded [Half a vid: "Droppin"]
• Voxtrot - Voxtrot [Vid: "Firecracker"]
• Fields - Everything Last Winter [Vid: "Charming The Flames"]
• The Hours - Narcissus Road [Vid: "Back When You Were Good"]
• Mobius Band - Heaven [Vid: "Friends Like These"]
• Rogue Wave - Asleep at Heaven's Gate [Vid: "Lake Michigan"]
• Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures [Vid: "Books From Boxes"]

Previous year-end lists:

• 2006: Mojave 3, Editors, Keane, The Hourly Radio, Mew, Midlake, Boy Kill Boy, Sean Lennon, Morrissey, Margot & The Nuclear So And So's
• 2005: Youth Group, British Sea Power, HAL, Athlete, Kent, Ed Harcourt, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Crimea, Embrace, Longview

Comments

[jk]

was just wondering what your honourable opinion is about the new athlete album? or why didn't you pick shotter's nation which is to me one of the best records i picked up in months?
cheers &keep it up

[torr]

Athlete's new one just had a few too many weak tracks on it to make my list.

And Babyshambles, I love "Delivery" but only like a few other tracks on it.

[matthew]

nice to see mobius band make a list. i really dug 'heaven'...

[Philiana Ng]

Excellent choices. I agree with a lot of this year's top 10. Travis' The Boy With No Name and Fields' Everything Last Winter are in my top few.

Solid picks for 2005 and 2006. I just picked up The Hourly Radio a few weeks ago at Amoeba and it is a fanatstic listen. Margot's compilation is genius, by far 2006's best album.

[julie]

no Hard-Fi, Maximo Park, Shins, Shout out Louds or Voxtrot in your top 10? Shame shame!!

[torr]

Voxtrot was a runner-up.

Shins didn't make my top 10.

and I totally forgot about Hard-Fi, Maximo Park, Shout Out Louds, doh! Will add 'em to runners-up.

[julie]

i know voxtrot was a runner up, i'm sayin' i'm surprised it didn't make your top 10. i thought it was more solid record than mobius band fo' sho'.

props on adding more runners-up.
gotta keep you in check ;)

[del]

you also forgot...electric soft parade...jack penate,thirteen senses,passenger,the cinematics,the parlotones,the coral and battle

just a reminder

[torr]

none of these were that great:

electric soft parade, the coral, jack penate, the cinematics, passenger, the parlotones, battle.

but I did forget Thirteen Senses, doh! thanks.

[Tacim]

Fantastic!

PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Patric Wolf - The Magic Position
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Phosphorescent - Pride
M.I.A. - Kala
Bill Callahan - Woke on A Whaleheart
Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
The National - Boxer
Richard Hawley - Lady's Bridge
Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Blonde Redhead - 23
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Kylie Minogue - X
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera
Feist - The Reminder
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Suzanne Vega - Beauty & Crime
Perry Blake - Canyon Songs
Nico: The Frozen Borderline - 1968-1970
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
Puressence - Don't Forget To Remember
Marc Almond - Stardom Road
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Grinderman - Grinderman
Lucky Soul - The Great Unwanted
Brett Anderson - Brett Anderson
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Sarah Nixey - Sing, Memory