Good to see some love for my Sydney buddies. Check out the EP they did recently called "The Sad Sun" EP. I personally like it better, it reflects the weird kinda gothic jams they've been doing recently.

Also Matthews solo project Lamp Puffer (was called Bad Tables until a few weeks ago) is pretty cool.
http://www.myspace.com/lamppuffer

Highs:
Battles - Mirrored
Kala - M.I.A.
Grinderman - Grinderman
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Radiohead - In Rainbows
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Justice - Cross
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Magik Markes - Boss

OK:
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
The Tough Alliance - A New Chance

Lows:
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Arctic Monkeys - Your Favorite Worst Nighmare - Worst album of 2007

Lots more stuff I have to listen to.

Hmm cool stuff. Yeah I haen't heard The Sad Sun EP yet, not sure if it's out here or not...but they're coming to play here in March so I'm sure I'll be able to pick it up then.

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highs:

Queens of the Stoneage- Era Voulgaris..... 6/6
Foo Fighters--Echo, Silence.... 6/6
Thurston Moore- Trees outside the Acedamy 6/6
Paul Mc Cartney---Memory almoast full 6/6

i don´t bought more records from 2007 but they were all very excellent.

Highs:

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
Battles - Mirrored
Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
Magik Markers - Boss
Sleeping People - Growing
Toddle - Dawn Praise the World
Grinderman - S/T
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside the Academy

Lows:

Smashing Pumpkins
The Stooges :(

Wow, it sure is a good feeling to read all the indie bullshit Pitchfork dicksucking awful album loving in this thread and little to no recognition (except for some of you) of truely great albums.

Wait, good feelings are followed by vomit and a little bit of bleeding, right?

Also, people on this board actually listen to the Smashing Pumpkins.

...

Dirty Projectors' Rise Above is one great big HIGH.

i'll post my personal low points and disappointments, then at some point the high points (work in progress):

-the weirdness
-beyond
-boss
-in rainbows (disc one has some great songs but it's the first underwhelming and static rh album since pablo honey)
-grinderman (could have been an spectacular ep, ended up being an ok to good album).
-big business - here come the waterworks (after the brilliant head for the shallow, the guys do an album of mediocre melvins-wannabe songs).
-spoon - ga ga ga ga ga (good but i haven't really listened to it again)
-angelcorpse - of lucifer and lightning (very by the numbers for a return of a brilliant band)
-pelican - city of echoes (like b-sides of their last album)
-pretty much everything on load records (mediocre releases by great bands, mostly)
-modest mouse - the ship sank whatever (even though some tunes are amazing)
-low - drums and guns (a failed experiment, "your poison" and "murderer" almost make up for the duds)
-chinese stars - left side of the brain (dire, awful band)
-xasthur - defective epitaph
-von südenfed
-wu-tang clan - 8 diagrams (some songs are good, though)
-beirut - the flying club cub
-down III
-black dice - load blown (but i didn't expect much)
-iron and wine - shepherd's dog
-caribou - andorra
-qui - love's miracle
-blues control (seemed half baked)
-leslie keffer and inca ore tape (had big hopes for both)

I'm glad someone besides me thought that album was amazing.

Maybe because Corgan has great songwriting skills sometimes (cf obscured for instance).

ohh yeah, more lows, ultra lows actually.

-björk - volta (because it's the only one of hers that i had any expectations and yeah, you know)
-m.i.a. - kala (how people consider it music is beyond me)

I have to add Oxbow's The narcotic story to my "Great"s. Best album of 2007 from what I've heard.

Liars self titled was really disappointing, Strawberry Jam was really appointing.
Ive lost touch with modern music this year im afraid. So much so im getting a rekkid player for Xmas.
And that Battles business has done nothing for me, which i think is a healthy sign of my own cynicism

Dirdn't buy so many albums this year compared to years past, but...

good:
M.I.A. - Kala
Circle - Katapult
Oren Ambarchi - Stacte Motors
Sir Ricahrd Bishop - While My Guitar Violently Bleeds
Keith Rowe - The Room
Birchville Cat Motel - Bird Sister Blasphemy
Kan Mikami - Barking Practice /// White Lines
Enkidu - Live in Kyoto
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Lead Sister II - Interplanetary Craft (coming soon)
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Uton - Alitaju Ylimina
UA - Golden Green
Retolt Mandala - SF Munou Koukyoubutsu
Alcest - Souvenirs D'un Autre Monde
Sunburned Circle
Wooden Shjips

meh:
NNCK - 9 for Victor
LSD March: Constellation of Tragedy
Sunn 0))) - Oracle
Blues Control

Yeah, dude. That's what I was thinking.

you so crazy

awesome stuff:
Zelienople - His/Hers (probably album of the year)
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
The Terminals - Last Days Of The Sun
Larsen & Friends - ABECEDA
Patten - There Were Horizons
Pram - The Moving Frontier
Starving Weirdos - Shrine Of The Post-Hypnotic
Circle - Katapult
Loren Connors - The Hymn Of The North Star
Rhys Chatham - A Crimson Grail
Bachi Da Pietra - Non Io

good stuff:
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Burning Star Core - Operator Dead... Post Abandoned
The Angels Of Light - We Are Him
Adjágas - Adjágas
Midnite Snake - Shaving The Angel
Om - Pilgrimage
Sightings - Through The Panama
Sunroof! - Panzer Division Lou Reed

disappointing stuff:
Charalambides - Likeness
La Otracina - Tonal Ellipse Of The One
Richard Youngs - Autumn Response
Kevin Ayers - The Unfairground
Skullflower - Abyssic Lowland Hiss

utter shite:
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Warmer Milks - Interiors
The National Lights - The Dead Will Walk Dear
Mayhem - Ordo Ad Chao
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
NIN - Year Zero

Right!! 2 volumes and 0 mentions, bad boys you all are!

Am I the only person who thinks that Battles don't deserve all the hype that they have been getting?