I really thought Battles was a disappointment. The EPs prior to it were fucking great and not like anything else around at the time. They kind of just made that sound more Pitchfork/Urban Outfitters.

Top 50? Way too much for me to type. Also, I haven't even listened to the majority of the albums released this year. It would definately include the following:
Xiu Xiu/Larsen
Avey Tare
Animal Collective
Panda Bear
Xiu Xiu Remixed and Recovered
Wolf Eyes(The black wings over the sand or whatever it was called)
Battles
XBXRX
Mong Hang
Deerhoof
Arcade Fire

Word. :)

you know something? i need to redo my list because i forgot some great stuff (wooden shjips, shining, the angelic process).

so yeah, that was a draft.

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even though mirrored is not perfect and very trendy, i can't stand the eps anymore, i loved them but they sound very dated now.

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the besnard lakes and a place to bury strangers need to be added as well. gah, i need to retool this list a bit before i do my compilation best of 07 album thingy!

the besnard lakes definitely should be on my list, so those the second ktl album.

i wasn't wearing my glasses earlier, so when i first read what you wrote i thought you wrote the barenaked ladies need to be on your list.

I forgot about the Ainotamenishis record. That might be my favourite of all this year.

that seems to be a common misreading the barenaked lakes or the besnard ladies!

Impressive...I haven't heard 50 records from 2007, i can't even make a top 10

1 Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
2 The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
3 Panda Bear - Person Pitch
4 Amon Tobin - Foley Room
5 To Kill a Petty Bourgeoisie - Patron
6 Deerhunter - Cryptogram
7 Shugo Tokumaru - Exit

so here, after all this time and how i never gotten around to posting it until now, is my totally cheating list of albums in ranking of how much i enjoyed them and felt were the best:

1. Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail (For 400 Guitars)
2. Jesu - Conqueror
3. Neurosis - Given To The Rising
4. Kemilliset Ystävät - Untitled
5. Nadja - Radiance Of Shadows
6. Melt Banana - Bambi's Dilemma
7. Sutcliffe Jügend - This Is The Truth
8. Kousokuya - Echoes From Deep Underground
Ray Night, 2006.10.18.
9. Descartes A Kant - Paper Dolls
10. Municipal Waste - The Art Of Partying
11. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
12. Los Llamarada - The Exploding Now!
13. Ghost - In Stormy Nights
14. Alcest - Souvenir D'un Autre Monde
15. Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
16. Lasse Marhaug - The Great Silence
17. Wolves In The Throne Room - Two Hunters
18. The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
19. Oren Ambarchi - In The Pendulum's Embrace
20. Zelienople - His/Hers
21. Bad Brains - Build A Nation
22. Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
23. Einstürzende Neubauten - Alles Wieder Offen
24. Islaja - Ulual Yyy
25. Smegma - 33 1/3
26. Hot Cross - Risk Revival
27. Múm - Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
28. To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie - The Patron
29. Trap Them - Sleepwell Deconstructor
30. Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
31. LSD Pond - LSD Pond
Alasehir - The Stone Sentinels
Alasehir - Sharing The Sacred
Alumbrados - A Generation Of Vipers
Baikal - Baikal
32. Polysics - Karate House
33. Pita - A Bas La Culture Marchande
34. Baroness - Red Album
35. Suishou No Fune - The Light Of Dark Night
36. Unsane - Visqueen
37. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
38. Original Silence - The First Original Silence
39. Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline
40. Hild Sophie Tafjord - Kama
41. Sir Richard Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
42. Boredoms - Super Roots 9
43. Benighted - Icon
44. Kenji Siratori - Survival Mind
45. Zoroaster - Dog Magic
46. Mammal - Lonesome Drifter
47. Yellow Swans - At All Ends
48. Om - Pilgrimage
49. The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls In Sand
50. Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO - Crystal Rainbow Pyramid In The Stars
51. James Blackshaw - The Cloud Of Unknowing
52. Wold - Screeching Owl
53. Heavy Winged - Feel Inside
54. Angels Of Light - We Are Him
55. Hentai Lacerator - Covered In Fun
56. Darkthrone - F.O.A.D.
57. Bongripper - Hippie Killer
58. Pan Sonic - Katodivaihe
59. Silverchair - Young Modern
60. Vibracathedral Orchestra - Wisdom Thuderbolt
61. Sigh - Hangman's Hymn
62. Boris with Michio Kurihara - Rainbow
63. Circle - Panic
Katapult
Sunburned Circle - The Blaze Game
Pharaoh Overlord - Live In Suomi Finland
64. Taint - Sex Sick
65. Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
66. Rubbish - Vexanation, The Great American Outhouse
67. Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light
68. Bloody Panda - Pheromone
69. Prurient - Adam Tied To Stone
70. Watain - Sworn To The Dark
71. Astro - Astral Orange Sunshine
Galax - Never Ending Space Trackin'
72. Battles - Mirrored
73. Death Ambient - Druken Forest
74. Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
75. Xiu Xiu Larsen - ¿Spicchiology?
76. BBBlood - Experiment 50
77. 108 - A New Beat From A Dead Heart
78. Jessica Rylan - Interior Designs
79. Armenia + Cornucopia - Un Infierno Total
80. Pre - Epic Fits
81. Antigama - Resonance
82. Gallhammer - Ill Innocense
83. The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
84. Zozobra - Harmonic Tremors
85. Astral Social Club - Super Grease
Neon Pibroch
86. Orthodox - Gran Poder
87. Carlos Giffoni - Arrogance
88. Job For A Cowboy - Genesis
89. RTX - Western Xterminator
90. Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
91. Destroyer Destroyer - Littered With Arrows
92. Burning Star Core - Blood Lightning
Operator Dead...Post Abandoned
93. Weedeater - Godluck and Goodspeed
94. Eluvium - Copia
95. The Bark Haze - The Bark Haze
96. Behemoth - The Apostasy
97. Pig Destroyer - Phantom Limb
98. Religious Knives - Remains
99. Clockcleaner - Babylon Rules
100. Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy

top list... worth the wait in a suprising bump!

Great list, everyneurotic. I see that we agreed on the # 1 pick!

radiohead, battles, shellac...

man i listened to some shitty albums in 2007

my 2007 top 10 (not ranked):


Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Ratatat - Remixes Vol II
Ryan Adams - Easy Tiger
Sean Price - Jesus Price Supastar
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
TI - TI Vs TIP

i had no fucking clue athletic automation had a full length yet. i love their split with made in mexico though, and live theyre amazing.

One year after, I have to say that the 2007 album I've enjoyed the most was Black Dice's Load Blown. Pure awesome bliss, it still destroys my mind at every listen.
I am not good at doing list, but my top would include Battles, Animal Collective, Pantha du Prince (that one very high), To Kill A Petty Bourgeoisie, Panda Bear, among others

STRAWBERRY JAM was a definite contender. As was Devin The Dude's WAITING TO INHALE.

ahh shit!!! forgot about mong hang!!!

Yes!!!!!!

Haa adam I was going to argue with a sentence in your text under your top 50 but then I realised it was months ago so that's no point
Which makes this message useless by the way

I sure hope you weren't about to disagree with "album title of the year: How You Sell Soul to a Soulless People Who Sold Their Soul?"

How You Sell a lemon Sole to a lemon Soleless People Who Sold Their lemon Soles ?

yknow lemon sole is one of the hardest fish to cook just right... 10 seconds either way and its raw or burned!

mmmmmmmmmmm

sorry, carry on!

Haha, no, it was about this


but that's not anything worthy. I was glad to find the new Black Dice on your list, though I think it deserves more than #44 - as I said it was my favorite record of last year, I found it really impressive, brainmelting and catchy, abrasive and accessible, harsh and groovy at the same time. Seriously, "Roll Up", I could listen to that sound without any variations for hours. It's actually my mobile answering machine

Yeah, Black Dice are okay. I lose interest with every record they put out. "Manoman" was one of the best songs of the year though.

"Mirrored" still kinda sucks (mainly because of the shitty songwriting) and "Person Pitch" is alright but kinda boring.

i like mirrored only cuz i was feeling nostalgic and started playing street fighter with a snes emulator right when the album came out, so i kept listening to it as background music while playing.. and now i can't help but think about it as the street fighter soundtrack or something.

Hahaha.

That's how I feel about william basinki's disintegration loops and xenogears.

man, i think person pitch is beatiful. its my favorite thing animal collective related thing since sung tungs for sure.

mirrored is a great album...


ill get my coat!

I'd take any Avey Tare or any other Panda Bear album over "Person Pitch".

you serious, i hate the avey tare record, and the first panda is ok to me. i duno, i just absolutley adore the vocal arrangements on there, just me.

Sure, it's got some pretty parts, but it's nothing that exciting. Actually, it sounds like a very poor Beach Boys record with a lot of boring samples and songs that don't really go anywhere. Just not that interesting to me... obviously, he's a great singer, and on that principle alone it's a good record but not something worth worshipping.

to me, that panda bear album is like a test trial of the treatments done to the songs on strawberry jam.

at first i really liked it but now, i don't even think about that album. strawberry jam grew big time for me, those songs are amazing and among the best they have ever done.

haha, that's a good thing to think about. I've got one from back in the days:

UFO:Enemy Unknown + Greenday-Kerplunk (was 13 years old back then)

Ha, most people I know seem to think as you do that Black Dice are getting worse and worse with every release, but I actually feel exactly the opposite: I think Load Blown is by far their best yet. I don't mean that Beaches & Canyons or Creature Conforts suck - I love them as well, but I feel like there were always boring moments on their first releases. On Load Blown, everything manages to be catchy, every second gets my total attention. It's not about the "sonic landscapes" anymore (but Eric Copeland's album was there for that, and it was great), but seriously I think it's better than anything they've done before. A tornado of braindestruction and destructionbeats

I like Panda Bear even more than Sung Tongs.....well, the first half is great.

I actually hated AC when they first came out.....they're ok.


I def. think Strawberry Jam is their best album if I had to pick one I liked the best.

i love the formula one engine at full chat sample on the first track of panda pitch!!

strawberry jam is a fucking class album

black dice are the most up and down band ever... when bad they are shocking, when good they rule..... load blown is damn good, but the one before, broken ear record... piss poor, possibly the worst album i have heard in about 5 or 6 years....

ive covered battles...

am i the only one who listed lcd soundsystem in the top 10 of the year?? that album is fucking emlike, almost every song is an amazing pop tune!

I would not put LCD Soundsystem in my top 10, but that album is really good yes. I prefer the self titled one though

Beach and Canyons was the only album by them I really thought was GREAT.

I dunno if they're getting worse, just uninteresting.

i give black dice the utmost respect for the sole purpose of how much theyve evolved this year, and evolved sucesfully. 10 years ago no mone would have thought that this band of 18 year old noisecore psychos would be making a record like 'creature comforts' with idm, post punk, hip hop, ambience, pretty amazing.