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Long List 2007
This is the longlist for my 2007 albums of the year.
I'm going to try and pick a top ten (or so) and do a write up for each album, but in the meantime here's the candidates (in order by album title):

Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Matthew Dear - Asa Breed
Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness
The Besnard Lakes - Are The Dark Horse
Black Francis - Bluefinger
King Creosote - Bombshell
The National - Boxer
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
Joe Henry - Civilians
Low - Drums and Guns
iLiKETRAiNS - Elegies To Lessons Learnt
Editors - An End Has A Start
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Wheat - Everyday I Said a Prayer for Kathy and Made a One Inch Square
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Octopus Project - Hello Avalanche
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Maria McKee - Late December
Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Elliott Smith - New Moon
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Efterklang - Parades
Phosphorescent - Pride
Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
Wilco - sky Blue Sky
Devendra Banhart - Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Grant-Lee Phillips - Strangelet
Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Valley Of Fire
Mark Ronson - Version
Bjork - Volta
Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Trances Arc - XOXOX

Added 6th January 2012
I never did write up a top ten for this year.
So for completeness sake here's a top ten with the benefit of hindsight.

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss - Raising Sand
3. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
4. Wilco - sky Blue Sky
5. Emma Pollock - Watch The Fireworks
6. Low - Drums and Guns
7. Laura Veirs - Saltbreakers
8. Bonnie 'Prince' Billy - Ask Forgiveness
9. Neil Young - Live At Massey Hall
10. Rilo Kiley - Under The Blacklight