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.
- Radiohead – In Rainbows
- Robert Plant & Alison Krauss – Raising Sand
- LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
- Wilco – sky Blue Sky
- Emma Pollock – Watch The Fireworks
- Low – Drums and Guns
- Laura Veirs – Saltbreakers
- Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy – Ask Forgiveness
- Neil Young – Live At Massey Hall
- Rilo Kiley – Under The Blacklight