December 2007

I’m not a music blogger, but in the spirit of all the year-end lists that are popping up on proper music blogs, I thought I’d make my own. My criteria were simple. The disc had to come out sometime in 2007, and I had to actually care enough to buy it. I don’t buy that much music anymore, so my list of potential picks was mercifully small. Ranking was difficult, but I decided that if something was pleasantly surprising, it ranked higher than something that was just dependably good. So, here, without any real commentary, are my top 10 from 2007.

1. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
2. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
3. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
4. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
5. Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – Music from the film “Once”
6. Apples In Stereo – New Magnetic Wonder
7. Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
8. LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
9. St. Vincent – Marry Me
10. Interpol – Our Love to Admire

Outside the top ten:

• The New Pornographers – Challengers
• The Shins – Wincing the Night Away
• Radiohead – In Rainbows
• Stars – In Our Bedroom After the War
• Peter Bjorn and John – Writer’s Block

Other great albums that I just haven’t got around to buying yet:

• The National – Boxer
• Beirut – The Flying Club Cup

How about you? What were some of your favourites?

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