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The Best Albums of 2007

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    8/10
  1. Burning Star Core: Operator Dead Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
  2. Between the Buried and Me: Colors (Victory)
    7.5/10
  3. Pantha Du Prince: This Bliss (Dial)
  4. Bad Statistics: Static (Kraak)
  5. Elegi: Sistereis (Miasmah)
  6. Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
  7. Alcest: Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde (Prophecy)
  8. Gnaw Their Tongues: An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (Roadburn)
  9. Religious Knives: Remains (No Fun)
  10. Grails: Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence)
  11. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (DFA)
  12. DJ Hidden: The Later After (Ad Noiseam)
  13. Cobalt: Eater of Birds (Profound Lore)
  14. Wraiths: Plaguebearer (Paradigms)
  15. St Vincent: Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
  16. Battles: Mirrored (Warp)
  17. Gultskra Artikler: Kasha Iz Topora (Miasmah)
  18. Paul Metzger: Deliverance (Locust Music)
    7/10
  19. Castanets: In The Vines (Asthmatic Kitty)
  20. Light Of Shipwreck: From The Idle Cylinders (Crucial Bliss)
  21. Alfredo Costa-Monteiro: Epicycle (Etude)
  22. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)
  23. Grouper: Cover The Windows And Walls (Root Strata)
  24. Ahousen: Ahousen (PFS)
  25. Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music)
  26. Shit And Shine: Cunts With Roses (Noisestar Music)
  27. KTL: KTL 2 (Editions Mego)
  28. A Sunny Day In Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
  29. Dead C: Future Artists (Ba Da Bing)
  30. Deerhunter: Cryptograms (Kranky)
  31. Cloaks: A Crystal Skull In Peru (Athiests Are Gods)
  32. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver (DFA)
  33. Besnard Lakes: Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar)
  34. Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu)
  35. Aidan Baker: Noise Of Silence (Hyperblasted)
  36. Far Corner: Endangered (Cuneiform)
  37. National: Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
  38. Coh: Strings (Raster Norton)
  39. Nadja: Thaumogenesis (Archive)
  40. Ulcerate: Of Fracture and Failure (Relapse)
  41. CocoRosie: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch & Go)
  42. Explosions In The Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)
  43. Okkervil River: The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
  44. Go Team: Proof Of Youth (Subpop)
  45. !!!: Myth Takes (Warp)
  46. Ocean Collective: Precambrian (Metal Blade)
  47. Expo 70: Animism (Kill Shamen)
  48. Emeralds: Allegory Of Allergies (Weird Forest)
  49. Gnaw Their Tongues: Reeking Pained And Shuddering (Paradigms)
  50. Yellow Swans: At All Ends (Load)
  51. Pussygutt: Sea Of Sand (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  52. CJA: Pink Metal (PseudoArcana)
  53. Wildbirds & Peacedrums: Heartcore (Leaf)
  54. Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  55. Holy Fuck: LP (Young Turks)
  56. Marnie Stern: In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
  57. Njiqahdda: Njimajikal Arts (Njiijn Arts)
  58. Aluk Todolo: Descension (Public Guilt)
  59. Baroness: Red Record (Relapse)
  60. Expo '70: Mystical Amplification (Kill Shaman)
  61. Taken By Trees: Open Field (Rough Trade)
  62. Mrtyu: Ritual Terra Continuii (Tipped Bowler Tapes)
  63. Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals (Vital)
  64. Grinderman: Grinderman (Anti)
  65. Nihill: Krach (Monumentum)
  66. The-Dream: Love/Hate (Def Jam)
  67. Psychedelic Horseshit: Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
  68. Yacht: I Believe in You Your Magic Is Real (Marriage)
  69. Sunroof: Panzer Division Lou Reed (VHF)
  70. Wildildlife: Six (Crucial Blast)
  71. JS666: I (Self)
  72. Me'Shell NdegeOcello: The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Bismillah)
  73. David Thomas Broughton David Thomas Broughton Vs. 7 Hertz (Acuarela)
  74. Maninkari: Le Diable Avec Ses Chevaux (Conspiracy)
  75. Fleshpress: Pillars (Kult Of Nihilow)
  76. Murmer: We Share A Shadow (Helen Scarsdale Agency)
  77. Behold the Arctopus: Skullgrid (Black Market)
  78. Blu & Exile: Below the Heavens (Sound in Color)
  79. Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: As the Fog Clears but for a Moment (Monolith)
  80. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Jinx (Staubgold)
  81. Lamp of the Universe: Arc Of Ascent (Astral Projection)
Songs
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  1. Shugo Tokumaru: Parachute
  2. JS666: Kay Sammakot Hiljaa Yossa
  3. Wold: Ray Of Gold
  4. Go Team: Doing it Right
  5. Yeasayer: Wait For The Summer
  6. LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
  7. Alcest: Printemps Emeraude
  8. Arcade Fire: Intervention
  9. St Vincent: Now Now
  10. Blues Control: Boiled Peanuts
  11. Patty Griffin: Getting Ready
  12. Eyesores: Blue on White
  13. Band Of Horses: Ode to LRC
  14. Go Team: Grip Like A Vice
  15. !!!: Must Be The Moon
  16. Deerhunter: Cryptograms
  17. White Magic: Song Of Solomon
  18. Caribou: Desiree
  19. Octopus Project: Truck
  20. Cobalt: When Serpents Return
  21. A Place to Bury Strangers: Missing You
  22. Go Team: Universal Speech
  23. Ministry: Die In A Crash
  24. Caribou: Melody Day
  25. Holy Fuck: Lovely Allen
  26. White Stripes: You Don't Know What Love Is
  27. CocoRosie: Japan
  28. Health: Heaven
  29. Vocokesh: Once More Near the Beginning
  30. Arcade Fire: Antichrist Television Blues
  31. St Vincent: Jesus Saves I Spend
  32. Okkervil River: Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
  33. A Sunny Day In Glasgow: A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons
  34. White Stripes: Rag & Bone
  35. Blonde Redhead: Top Ranking
  36. Arcade Fire: My Body Is A Cage
  37. Clientele: The Dance of Hours
  38. Octopus Project: Mmaj
  39. Patrick Wolf: Augustine
  40. Grinderman: Honey Bee
  41. Beirut: La Banlieu
  42. Jens Lekman: Shirin
  43. Castanets: Three Months Paid
  44. Alcest: Les Iris
  45. National: Slow Show
  46. Animal Collective: Unsolved Mysteries
  47. Andrew Bird: Scythian Empires
  48. Beirut: Cherbourg
  49. Liars: Freak Out
  50. Jens Lekman: Friday Night At The Drive-in Bingo
  51. Bug: Poison Dart
  52. Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Visage Of The Fox
  53. Tegan and Sara: The Con
  54. Wildbirds & Peacedrums: The Ones That Should Save Me
  55. Dear Hunter: Vital Vessals Vindicate
  56. Horrors: Excellent Choice
  57. The-Dream: Ditch That
  58. M.I.A.: Jimmy
  59. Grouper: You Never Came
  60. New Pornographers: All The Old Showstoppers
  61. Clipd Beaks: Black Glass
  62. Midori: Romantic Summer Mode
  63. Peste Noire: Amour Ne M'amoit Ne Je Li
  64. MGMT: 4th Dimensional Transition
  65. Bruce Springsteen: I'll Work For You Love
  66. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Jinx
  67. Marnie Stern: Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
  68. Yacht: We're Always Waiting
  69. Nekrasov: Toward The Black Pain Of The Body's Core
  70. Taken By Trees: Julia
  71. M.I.A.: Paper Planes
  72. MGMT: Weekend Wars
  73. Grouper: It Feels Alright
  74. Iron & Wine: Flightless Bird American Mouth
  75. Lykke Li: Little Bit
  76. Animal Collective: Peacebone
  77. Castanets: Rain Will Come
  78. Grazhdanskaya Oborona: Slava Psikhonavtam/ Glory to the Psychonauts
  79. Frog Eyes: Reform The Countryside
  80. Parts & Labor: The Gold We're Digging
  81. Lupe Fiasco: Put You on Game
  82. Val-Inc: Faces
  83. MGMT: Time to Pretend
  84. Eluvium: Prelude for Time Feelers
  85. Andrew Jackson Jihad (AJJ): Rejoice
  86. Sean Hayes: Midnight Rounders
  87. Avril Lavigne: Girlfriend
  88. Au Revoir Simone: Fallen Snow
  89. El-P: Flyentology
  90. Kemialliset Ystavat: Lentavat Sudet
Extended compositions
  1. Panda Bear: Bros
  2. Carl Stone: L'Os a Moelle
  3. Light Of Shipwreck: I Swallowed And Am Swallowing The River Ganges
  4. Ahousen: Ophelia
  5. Burning Star Core: When The Tripods Came
  6. Dead C: Garage
  7. Between the Buried and Me: Ants of the Sky
  8. Cloaks: A Crystal Skull In Peru
  9. Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Psilocybin Flashback
  10. KTL: Theme
  11. Wraiths: Plaguebearer
  12. Nadja: Thaumogenesis
  13. Expo 70: Mahogany Lake
  14. Sir Richard Bishop: Smashana
  15. Supersilent: 6
  16. Paul Metzger: Orans
  17. David Thomas Broughton: No Great Shakes
  18. Light Of Shipwreck: I Watched And Am Watching A Cold Dead Sun Rise Then Explode
  19. LSD-march: Nikutai no Tubomi
  20. Yellow Swans: At All Ends
  21. David Sylvian: When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
  22. Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
  23. Far Corner: Endangered
  24. Birchville Cat Motel: Her Anger Is Limitless
  25. James Blackshaw: Stained Glass Windows
  26. Jasper TX: Some Things Broken Some Things Lost
  27. Aluk Todolo: Obedience
  28. Silvester Anfang: Zoetieboelie Astrobrol
  29. Sunroof: Slew Plateaus
  30. Of Montreal: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
  31. Shellac: The End Of Radio
  32. Bob Wiseman: Man of Misery
  33. Dungen: Mon Amour
  34. High Mountain Tempel: Drugsmeditationhypnosis
  35. Dalek: Abandoned Language
  36. Expo 70: Shape Shifting Mountain Mover
  37. Dan Deacon: Wham City
  38. Silvester Anfang: Konfituur Voor De Satanjeugd
  39. Mike Hansen: The Alarm Went Off Sooner Than Expected
  40. KTL: Paratrooper
  41. Sunroof: Stairways And Terraces
  42. Explosions In The Sky: The Birth And Death Of The Day
  43. Silvester Anfang: Burned Alive At The Stake
  44. Paul Metzger: Deliverance
  45. A Broken Consort: Something Fell
  46. Expo '70: Luminous Phenomena Reacting To The Precognition Of Psychokinesis
  47. Stars of the Lid: Even If You're Never Awake
  48. Vic Chesnutt: Debriefing
  49. White Hills: Left Behind
  50. Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead
  51. Troum: Shutun
  52. Aidan Baker: Noise Of Silence
  53. Akron Family: Lake Song
  54. Oren Ambarchi: A Final Kiss On Poisoned Cheeks
  55. Aluk Todolo: Disease
  56. David Thomas Broughton: River Outlet
  57. High Mountain Tempel: Dispatch 23 from the Kali Yuga
  58. Billy Bao: Accumulation
  59. Wraiths: Bone Flutes & Skull Drums
  60. Arbouretum: The Rise
  61. Pantha Du Prince: Walden 2
  62. Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Psilocybin Flashback
  63. Religious Knives: Blackbird
  64. Njiqahdda: Blue Wintry Days
  65. Wolves In The Throne Room: I Will Lay Down My Bones
  66. Volcano the Bear: One Hundred Years Of Infamy
  67. Emeralds: Mistakes
  68. Oren Ambarchi: Fever A Warm Poison
  69. Nihill: Gnosis
  70. Gregg Kowalsky: Psalm 118
  71. Mrtyu: Marriage Of Birth And Death
  72. Alva Noto: Haliod Xerrox Copy 1
  73. Sunroof: Slew Plateaus #2
  74. Cobalt: Invincible Sun
  75. Peter Wright: At Last New Dawn
  76. Grails: Outer Banks
  77. Mark McGuire: Along The Coral Reef
  78. Earthless: Godspeed
  79. Zs: Z Is For Zone
  80. Suishou No Fune: A Midnight Ode - Like The Wind
  81. DJ Hidden: Death Seer
  82. Pussygutt: Pavour Nocturnus
  83. Funeralium: Light Crisis
  84. Maninkari: Ota
  85. Antgrist: Massive Fire Ball
  86. White Hills: Visions Of The Past Present And Future
  87. Fleshpress: Omega Monolith
  88. Ulcerate: Defaeco
  89. Beat Pharmacy: Dub Rocker
  90. Phosphorescent: My Dove My Lamb
  91. Murmer: We Share A Shadow
  92. Horseback: Finale
  93. Envy: A Road of Winds the Water Builds
  94. Ocean Collective: Calymmian
  95. Lamp Of The Universe: Sumerian Acid God
  96. Trollmann Av Ildtoppberg: Mountains of Crom
  97. Kammerflimmer Kollektief: Subnarkotisch
  98. A Taste Of Ra: Morning Of My Life
  99. Daniel Land: Lostening
 		Jazz

    7/10
  1. Antripodean Collective: The Massacre of the Egos
  2. Hilmar Jensson: Meg Nem Sa (Skirl)
  3. Agusti Martinez: Are Spirits What I Hear (Etude)
  4. Robert Glasper: In My Element
  5. Black Earth Ensemble: Black Unstoppable (2007)
  6. Satoko Fujii: Summer Suite (2007)
  7. Keith Rowe: The Room (Earstwhile)
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