Now that we're 1/4 of the way through the year, list all the 2007 releases worth listening to so far:

worth listening to, and really great

Ned Rothenberg: Inner Diaspora [probably my favorite '07 release so far, not that I've been hearing a lot--but this is very good]
Miranda Lambert: Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

worth listening to if you already are into this stuff, but not necessarily stellar all around:

Calle 13: Residente O Visitante [Musically, too much of this reminds me of the softer end of rock en español, which isn't my thing.]
Fulanito: Vacaneria by Fulanito [probably better as a source for tracks than as a whole album: Mira, Sabado en la Noche, Tate Manza]
Anthony Cruz: Para Mi Gente [I'm enjoying this a lot, in spite of its revisiting some of the worst aspects of 80s salsa production in some spots--not sure this particularly label ever really left them behind. But Cruz's singing really dominates and makes it all worthwhile. Search: "Empece a Llorar," which is nearly perfect.]

Discounting reissues (but including late '06 releases I didn't hear until this year), my Top 40 now would probably look something like this:

Miranda Lambert – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Columbia)
Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore (Bloodshot)
Trigger Renegade – Destroy Your Mind (Black Top Fade)
Funny Money – Stick It! (Fizz Donkey)
Blake Shelton – Pure B.S, (Warner Bros)
Lily Allen – Alright, Still… (Capitol)
The Rich & Famous – Like A Superstar (therichandfamous.net ’06)
Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (Big Machine ’06)
Pretty Donkey Girl – Holly Dolly (Capitol)
George Brigman – Rags In Skull (Bona Fide)
The Sirens – More Is More (MuSick)
Necrodemon – Ice Fields Of Hyperion (Open Grave)
Big Al Downing – XM Satellite Radio Live (Crazy Music)
(Various) – Schultze Gets The Blues (Normal/Filmkombinat)
Black Angel – O’California (Outsiders Record Company)
Clorox Girls – J’Aime Les Filles (BYO)
Bomshel – Bomshel (Curb)
Cole Deggs & The Lonesome – Cole Deggs & The Lonesome (Columbia)
Glenn Stewart – Glenn Stewart (Floodzone Ent. Group)
Korpiklaani – Tervaskanto (Napalm)
Jordan Pruitt – No Ordinary Girl (Hollywood)
The Greencards – Viridian (Dualtone)
!Patchanka! – Set Things In Motion… (patchanka.dk)
(Various) – Hyphy Hitz (TVT)
Jimmie Lee - Layin’ Down The Law (Leeco EP)
Richard Thompson – Sweet Warrior (Shout! Factory)
Les Hatepinks – Tete Malade/Sick In The Head (TKO EP)
Robert James – Until Now (Kingsway/Angry Lion)
John Anderson – Easy Money (Warner Bros./Raybaw)
Kekal – The Habit Of Fire (Open Grave)
Edible Red – Welcome To My Bad Behavior (Select)
David Torn – Prezens (ECM)
Crash Street Kids – Chemical Dogs (Hot City Recording Company)
The Flying Eyes – The Flying Eyes (myspace.com/theflyingeyesmd ’06)
Lantana – Unbridled (BGM)
Sunny Sweeney – Heartbreaker’s Hall Of Fame (Big Machine)
Pete Berwick – Ain’t No Train Outta Nashville (Shotgun)
Jack Ingram – This Is It (Big Machine)
Poison – Poison’d! (EMI)
Hilary Duff – Dignity (Hollywood)

Offa the top of my Kopf:

Christian Wallumrod, The Zoo Is Far
Hoppy Kamiyama, If I were the pianp
Slaraffenland, Private Cinema
Ibrahim Ferrer, Mi Sueno
Fläskkvartetten, Voices of Eden
Nine Horses, Money For All EP

Gosub - Watchers from the Black Universe

Field Music Tones of Town
Voxtrot Voxtrot
mixed feelings about Panda Bear Person Pitch, but it is on the list

still yet to check out, anticipate

new Spoon
new Dungen

so far I'd go with

throbbing gristle part two - the endless not
white mice - blasstphlegmeice
blues control - puff
raccoo-oo-oon - behold secret kingdom
earth - hibernaculum
joanna newsom - and the ys street band (solely for the version of "cosmia" that brings the relative weaknesses of ys into focus. apparently the dyke van parks arrangements were not to blame, as they are retained and transposed to a five piece band here, but as suspected, the orchestration and recording process sapped life and spark from the songs. would it be too much to ask to have the entirety of ys re-recorded using the 5 piece band, for posterity?)

still wanna hear stars of the lid, woods, jesu...

Xiu Xiu Larsen (XXL) - ¿Spicchiology? which just came out is pretty good, and significantly better than the first collaboration they did, Ciaotistico!.

still wanna hear stars of the lid, woods, jesu...

new Stars of the Lid is fantastic, the best thing they've done

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albums-of-2007-in-construction/lm/R35QVFZHKSBCXO/ref=cm_lm_pdp_title_full/203-7551083-9947945

maps - we can create

+1 for the field music

and just to repeat myself from upthread.. the kubichek album is tremendous.

Yoko Ono - Yes I'm a Witch
Grinderman - Grinderman
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond

The Maps I couldn't get on with at all, and had a bizarre conversation in Virgin Megastore about yesterday.

The Kubichek I heard good things about from a terrible, untrustworthy source. Tell me more?

it has roots in your pretty standard urgent indie rock, but the tunes are really good and the guitars are very gazey. and i really dig their lyrics.

kinda like hofman, except really good

My Favourite Albums of 2007 so far

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
!!! - Myth Takes
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity

as suspected, the orchestration and recording process sapped life and spark from the songs. would it be too much to ask to have the entirety of ys re-recorded using the 5 piece band, for posterity?)

-- Edward III, Wednesday, 23 May 2007

ouch.

My favourites of the (few) 2007 albums I've heard so far are:

Björk – Volta
Jordan Pruitt – No Ordinary Girl
Ono – Yes I'm a Witch
Gui Boratto – Chromophobia
Low – Drums and Guns
Au Revoir Simone – The Bird Of Music
Spirit Catcher – Night Vision

& I will add the Margaret Berger album, since I only heard it this year and it isn’t available in the UK yet.

Still to hear in full (but like what I've heard thus far): The Noisettes, Fall Out Boy, Cornelius, Rush.

the orchestration and recording process sapped life and spark from the songs.

I still don't get this line of criticism. Live, her vocals do sound less dry and affected than on the record. But I find the live instrumentation to be a bit too monochrome/gypsy-musicky for my tastes.

I mean, the strings on "Only Skin" are so fucking allusive and undeniable to my ears. God, that "we felt the spray of the waves" bit actually SOUNDS like the surging of some great white beguiling wave.

jennifer gentle - the midnight room
the crayon fields - animal bells
tori amos - American doll posse
forro in the dark - bonfires of san joao

i'm looking forward to the j. gentle album! impressions? any chance it's better than vallende?

But I find the live instrumentation to be a bit too monochrome/gypsy-musicky for my tastes.

I mean, the strings on "Only Skin" are so fucking allusive and undeniable to my ears. God, that "we felt the spray of the waves" bit actually SOUNDS like the surging of some great white beguiling wave.

ys is not without merit, but in many instances it's ts: gypsy-musicky vs. disney-schmaltzy.

I don't think there's anything wrong at all with having slightly old-fashioned strings, and I think it's a fallacy to conflate being old-fashioned with cheesiness or necessary badness. VDP isn't doing a John-Williams-by-the-numbers thing here.

The string arrangements are dynamic, they add character to the songs, and to me they don't come across as those trite swells of strings that lazy arrangers attach to songs to evoke emotion.

Bump.

Well over halfway in, now. I have two lists on Amazon;

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albums-of-2007-part-1/lm/R35QVFZHKSBCXO/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/202-1855647-9383050
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Albums-of-2007-part-2/lm/RR2VHFB1D8SK/ref=cm_lm_byauthor_title_full/202-1855647-9383050

Patrick Wolf, Battles, Electrelane, LCD Soundsystem, Caribou, 65dos, Stars Of The Lid, Acoustic Ladyland probably being the serious favourites.

The Tokyo Jihen OSCA EP is pretty good. I am looking forward to the new album, but based on the four or so songs I've heard now (assuming these EP songs are all going to be on the album), I don't really see how it can be as good as last year's Adult.

Tokyo Jihen - Variety

Mostly very good stuff.

Tokyo Jihen - Variety
Jean-Francois Laporte - Soundmatters
Stars of the Lid and the Refinement of their Decline
Fovea Hex - Allure ep
Christopher DeLaurenti - Favorite Intermissions
Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba - Segu Blue
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Conlon Nancarrow - Nancarrow Vol. 2, Studies 13-32, recorded by Jürgen Hocker

Ghedalia Tazartes 4CD box
Artefacts of Australian Experimental Music 1930-1973
David Tudor - Music for Piano (Editions RZ)
Annea Lockwood - Early Works 1967-1982

Chrome CD reissues are a big deal

this was the year of Catherine Ribeiro for listening, but that's mp3's

HIGH ON FIRE - DEATH IS THIS COMMUNION

I want what Milton Parker is drinking.

Tell me more about Chrome CD reissues plz

Addin' coupla mo' faves:
Efterklang, Parades
3 Pead, Ilusaim heli
Half Cousin, Iodine

really wasn't a new LP year for me, but still:
Marnie Stern
Deerhoof
Fred Frith/Janet Feder
Ewan Pearson remix comp
Zs
Psyopus
Car Bomb
Melt Banana

honorable mention:
M.I.A.
Kathy Diamond
77Boardrum boot mp3

pearlfishers 'up for a lark'
the projects 'voice is glue' ep, apparently they've almost got another album done too.

Patrick Wolf – The Magic Position
Electrelane – No Shouts No Calls
Caribou – Andorra
Battles – Mirrored
Acoustic Ladyland – Skinny Grin
65daysofstatic – The Destruction Of Small Ideas
LCD Soundsystem – The Sound Of Silver
Stars Of The Lid – And The Refinement Of Their Decline
Studio – West Coast
Two Lone Swordsmen – Wrong Meeting 2
Apparat – Walls
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Beirut – The Flying Club Cup
!!! – Myth Takes
Panda Bear – Person Pitch
Six.By Seven – If Symptoms Persist Kill Your Dr
Bjork – Volta
The Field – From Here We Go Sublime
PJ Harvey – White Chalk
Menomena – Friend And Foe
Von Sudenfed – Tromatic Reflexxions
Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
The Tuss – Rushup Edge
Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
The Clientele – God Save The Clientele
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re A History In Rust
Basquiat Strings – Basquiat Strings
Ash – twilight Of The Innocents
Matthew Dear – Asa Breed
Miracle Fortress – Five Roses
Super Furry Animals – Hey Venus!
Two Lone Swordsmen – Wrong Meeting
Pharoahe Monch – Desire
Fraud – Fraud
The Twilight Sad – Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters
Siobhan Donaghy – Ghosts
Working For A Nuclear Free City – Businessmen And Ghosts
Grinderman – Grinderman
L’imparfait Des Langues – Louis Sclavis
Strategy – Future Rock
Kanye West - Graduation

Approximate top 50 (minus reissues), as of now:

(Various) – Motel Lovers: Southern Soul From The Chitlin’ Circuit (Trikont)
Flynnville Train – Flynnville Train (Show Dog Nashville)
Miranda Lambert – Crazy Ex-Girlfriend (Columbia)
Taylor Swift – Taylor Swift (Big Machine ’06)
Trigger Renegade – Destroy Your Mind (Black Top Fade)
Aly & AJ – Insomniatic (Hollywood)
Gore Gore Girls – Get The Gore (Bloodshot)
Lily Allen – Alright, Still… (Capitol)
The Sirens – More Is More (MuSick)
Necrodemon – Ice Fields Of Hyperion (Open Grave)
Halfway To Hazard – Halfway To Hazard (Stylesonic/Mercury)
Cole Deggs & The Lonesome – Cole Deggs & The Lonesome (Columbia)
Jack Ingram – This Is It (Big Machine)
The Bellamy Brothers – Jesus Is Coming (Curb)
Funny Money – Stick It! (Fizz Donkey)
The Rich & Famous – Like A Superstar (therichandfamous.net ’06)
Blake Shelton – Pure B.S, (Warner Bros)
Black Angel – O’Santabarbara (Outsiders Record Company)
Gary Allan – Living Hard (MCA Nashville)
Toby Keith -- Big Dog Daddy (Show Dog Nashville)
The Birthday Massacre – Walking With Strangers (Metropolis)
(Various) – Schultze Gets The Blues (Normal/Filmkombinat)
Black Angel – O’California (Outsiders Record Company)
The Greencards – Viridian (Dualtone)
Jimmie Lee - Layin’ Down The Law (Leeco EP)
Dirty Sound System – Dirty Space Disco (Tigersushi mix album)
Simian Mobile Disco – Attack Decay Sustain Release (Interscope)
George Brigman – Rags In Skull (Bona Fide)
Clorox Girls – J’Aime Les Filles (BYO)
Bomshel – Bomshel (Curb unreleased promo)
Witchcraft – The Alchemist (Rise Above)
Cocktail Slippers – Mastermind (Wicked Cool)
M.I.A. – Kala (Interscope)
Brooks & Dunn – Cowboy Town (Arista Nashville)
Sarah Johns – Big Love In A Small Town (BA)
Joetown – Rock ‘N’ Roll Man (joetown.com)
Kosmos – Kosmos (The End)
American Dog – Hard (Colonial Canine)
Hardingrock - Grimen (Candlelight USA)
Dungeons And Drag Queens – Meat N’ Potatoes (myspace.com/ddqrocks)
Gogol Bordello – Super Taranta (Side One Dummy)
The Flairs – Shut Up And Drive (Pacific Music ’06)
Mustasch – Latest Version Of The Truth (Regain)
Divining Rods – Love Letter To The Dead (Divining Rods ‘06)
Pumice – Pebbles (Soft Abuse)
Robert James – Until Now (Kingsway/Angry Lion)
(Various) – Hyphy Hitz (TVT)
Gretchen Wilson – One Of The Boys (Epic)
Edible Red – Welcome To My Bad Behavior (Select)
David Torn – Prezens (ECM)
Crash Street Kids – Chemical Dogs (Hot City Recording Company)

I hadn't noticed that Ewan Pearson remix comp before! Ah AMG says it came out last week, that would explain it.

xp
(Actually, that might be 51 -- I kept losing count. But Dirty Space Disco probably counts as a reissue, come to think of it. So ignore that one.)

Man, this is always the hardest part of the 4th quarter—trying to remember albums I liked in February but don't remember as "2007" releases.

I am diggin' the Black Mountain new one though. And MIA and WFANFC…

not listed: parts & labor, no age, ugk, new band of horses

Favorites so far (kinda in order):
M.I.A. - Kala
Britney Spears - Blackout
Gui Boratto - Chromophobia
The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
The National - Boxer
White Rabbits - Fort Nightly
Cave - Hunt Like Devil
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Natasha Bedingfield - N.B.
Lil Wayne - Da Drought 3
Beirut - Flying Club Cup

Still haven't heard but highly anticipating:
Miranda Lambert
Jay-Z
Au Revoir Simone
UGK
Paramore
Twilight Sad
Aly & AJ
Calle 13
Andy Palacio

A few great ones that haven't been mentioned
Crowded House
Travis
Kent
Fountains Of Wayne
Hoosiers
Erasure
McCartney

I still think Inner Diaspora is incredible. (Listening to it again tonight after a little bit of a hiatus.)

now that i know the next for against album isn't due til early next year, there's almost no way my fave album of the year won't be the kubichek album

also big ups to the misty's big adventure, the lodger, and voice of the seven woods albums

blues control - puff
jay reatard - night of broken glass
panda bear - person pitch
black dice - roll up/drool
group doueh
psychedelic horseshit - magic flowers droned
howling hex - xi
mark sultan - sultanic verses
dinosaur jr - beyond
dan deacon - spiderman of the rings

close:
sapat - mortise and tenon
king khan & BBQ show - whats for dinner?
times new viking present the paisley reich
blues control - s/t

best shows:
howling hex in arlington, va
blues control/paychedelic horseshit/pink reason in dc
panda bear in baltimore
jay reatard in dc
endless boogie in dc

orwell 'la genie humain'

bodzin
schwarz
gerber
caribou
chromatics
terrence dixon
stars of the lid
fear falls burning
the mount fuji doomjazz corporation
pram

oh yeah chromatics stuff rulz

I feel kind of geeky for liking this, but the 1900's "Cold and Kind" is an awfully good Belle and Sebastian album.

loren connors - collected airs
devin the dude - waitin' to inhale
the ace of clubs - benefist
big shug - street champ
the tuss - rushup edge
pj harvey - white chalk
MIA kala
jay z - american gangster
UGK s/t

I've heard very little that's really excited me yet this year:

Nellie McKay
Lily Allen
Justice
Trelldom

hmmm... maybe some of the Battles album

a few things I've enjoyed that came out this year:

om, pilgrimage
kompakt pop ambient 2007
fennesz sakamoto, cendre
panda bear, person pitch
merzbow/carlos giffoni, synth destruction
original silence, the first original silence

a couple '07 re-issues that I heard for the first time this year:
tim hecker, radio amor
laurie anderson, big science (my copy isn't the re-issued one, though)
fennesz, hotel paral.lel

i imagine i'll quite like the burial album, based on what folks are saying about it.

as usual, i tend to digest the previous year's albums throughout the current year, so a lot of "newer stuff" I've been listening to came out in '06. ask me in november '08 what my favorite '07 albums are. there's a whoooolllllllllllllle lot of stuff i haven't heard yet.

man, I've a) not been paying any attention to new stuff, b) got a one-track mind for cosmic mixes and compilations, so all I'm about has been like the Lindstrom LateNightTales, the Dirty Space Disco comp, Joakim's mix on disc 2 of Colette No. 8, Computer Incarnations for World Peace (that was this year, right?), the (surprisingly hella cosmic) Royksopp Back to Mine, Studio - Yearbook 1 (finally, some new music!), the Sally Shapiro album (12/06, but who's counting). I also like M.I.A. and LCD Soundsystem.

In no order

Studio—West Coast
Working For A Nuclear Free City—s/t
Six Organs of Admittance—Shelter from the Ash
Wooden Shjips—s/t
Von Südenfed—Tromatic Reflexxions
Tuxedomoon—Vapour Trails
Robert Wyatt—Comic Opera

why can I not find this Studio album anywhere...?

yuh the new Six Organs album is fukking brillll.

Kanye West's Graduation is the only good record I've heard this year.

the new Bad Religion and Immolation albums

"why can I not find this Studio album anywhere...?"

I contacted them through their MySpace after seeing raves here. They promised that they'd sent a promo, I didn't get it. They promised again that they'd sent a promo, I didn't get it. I searched slsk for it and found it pretty quickly. I still haven't gotten the promo, but the album's pretty sweet.

why can I not find this Studio album anywhere...?

FWIW, Studio's "West Coast" EP (which duplicates a lot of Studio's debut full-length disc) is available on eMusic.

The Flower Kings deserve a mention. Their rather recent album is their best ever.

I would list my favorites but it would take all day and I know that none of you all will listen to any of them anyway. I have about 50 records that I'd put in this category.

Plllllease, tell us some of 'em Matt. Although I can try to guess.

That would be kind of funny, because everyone would say Café Tacvba and I'd be like I AINT EVEN HEARD IT YET and you wouldnt believe me and yeah.

My list (compiled from all my damn lists all over the place) would include: Fefe Dobson, UGK, Vusi Mahlasela, Helene Corrini & Beatrice Graf, Juanes, DHG, Ike Reilly Assassination, Tibebu Workye, Chingo Bling, Every Time I Die, two different Indian soundtrack albums (<i>Namastey London</i> and <i>Om Shanti Om</i>), Jenni Rivera, Macy Gray, October File, Budos Band, Cortney Tidwell, Traband, Kenna, Gary Allan, Between the Buried and Me, Sean Noonan Brewed by Noon, Los Tigres del Norte, Of Montreal, Aleks Syntek, Alan Pasqua, Habib Koité, Lafayette Gilchrist, Mario Adnet, Muiza Adnet, Kelly Clarkson, M.I.A., autorickshaw, Indian pop comp <i>Everybody on Dance Floor 4.0</i>, Marnie Stern, two albums by Misha Piatigorsky, Over the Rhine, Radůza, Saul Williams, Kat DeLuna, Eileen Jewell, Shantel, Trio M, Wisin & Yandel.

I'm forgetting some.

hey Shakey, Forced Exposure carries that Studio album.

I have really been digging the two Richard Bishop albums from this year.

the anemones album is wonderful, if you like the garagey spacemen 3 to the gospely spacemen 3

prefer

Kelly Clarkson

I knew I forgot something!

My faves so far:

The Fall - Reformation Post TLC
MIA - Kala
Liars - Liars
Fennesz/Sakamoto - Cendre
Von Südenfed - Tromatic Reflexxions

The Fall - Reformation Post TLC

really??

Calle 13 (flaws and all)

i need to hear that liars album

I'm forgetting some.

-- Dimension 5ive, Monday, November 12, 2007 9:09 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

you're definitely forgetting Eleni Mandell, which I bought because of your review.

other releases I've heard this year that haven't been mentioned on this thread yet, in roughly descending order of preference:

Prodigy - Return Of The Mac
Ted Leo - Living With The Living
T-Pain - Epiphany
Travis Morrison - All Y’All
Cassidy - B.A.R.S.: Barry Adrian Reese Story
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Talib Kweli & Madlib - Liberation
Swizz Beatz - One Man Band Man
Keyshia Cole - Just Like You
Playaz Circle - Supply & Demand
The Nels Cline Singers - Draw Breath
Eddie Vedder - Music For The Motion Picture Into The Wild
Hurricane Chris - 51/50 Ratchet
Consequence - Don’t Quit Your Day Job
Enon - Grass Geysers...Carbon Clouds
T.I. - T.I. Vs. T.I.P.
Twista - Adrenaline Rush 2007
Rasputina - Oh Perilous World
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Redman - Red Gone Wild: Thee Album
R. Kelly - Double Up
Rufus Wainwright - Release The Stars
Trill Entertainment presents - Survival Of The Fittest
Bruce Springsteen - Magic
Money Mark - Brand New By Tomorrow
Gorilla Zoe - Welcome To The Zoo
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Grand Buffet - The Haunted Fucking Gazebo EP
Talib Kweli - Eardrum
Fabolous - From Nothin' To Somethin'
They Might Be Giants - The Else
Kelly Rowland - Ms. Kelly
Havoc - The Kush
Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
DJ Khaled - We The Best
Nels Cline/Andrea Parkins/Tom Rainey - Downpour

the good the bad and the queen
ted leo and the pharmacists
a place to bury strangers
queens of the stone age
the new pornographers
the angels of light
lcd soundsystem
the young gods
blonde redhead
the arcade fire
stars of the lid
nine inch nails
the national
grinderman
les savy fav
deerhunter
dinosaur jr
electrelane
radiohead
the ponys
pj harvey
mekons
eluvium
dungen
caribou
shellac
battles
spoon
bjork
m83
liars
low

Are those in order of preference?

Haha Eleni Mandell is awesome, you are right Al

Also, High on Fire, Winterpills, Black Dahlia Murder, Chris Gestrin, Jerry Granelli V16, Michael Blake Sextet, Taraf de Haikouks, Konono No. 1, Bronco, Noisettes, James Carney Group, Bobby Sanabria, La No. 1 Banda de Jerez, Yolanda Perez, Loudon Wainwright III, Baja, Lura, The Photo Atlas, Anat Fort, Anat Cohen, Moros Eros, & Anoushka Shankar/Karsh Kale.

Are those in order of preference?

pshhh.

actually, the Low is my #1 album of the year. so they could be in reverse order of preference, starting with Low and ending, uh, after Low because there's no order after that. if that makes any sense.

OMG, that list is hypnotic. I keep scrolling up and down admiring its spread.

neither the low nor blonde redhead albums stayed with me.. both are *nice*.. but ultimately unsatisfying. maybe something is wrong with my ears.

fiery furnaces 'widow city' = album of da sizz-entury, you guyz

hey folks I listened to that new Mekons album for the first time last night and I think it's their best one since Curse... - not that that would be too difficult. Anyone else liking it that much?

Youssou N'Dour-Rokku Mi Rokka
Bettye Lavette
Motel Lovers-Southern Soul from the Chitlin Circuit

I think I need to spend some more time with the latest Bettye record myself; the one time I played it thus far didn't leave me feeling all that impressed. Those other two records you mention are absolutely ace, though.

The Fall - Reformation Post TLC

really??

-- 69, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 03:32 (1 week ago) Link

I would add the Roisin Murphy album to my list now, and I guess LCD Soundsystem though it seems redundant.

ctrl+f kanye west found!

Christopher DeLaurenti - Favorite Intermissions

This sounds like it would be great. Just got around to reading a description.

Bassekou Kouyate & Ngoni Ba-Segu Blue more awesome stuff from Mali

Denise Lasalle-Pay Before You Pump Chitlin circuit soul singer still at it

Melchior Productions- No Disco Future
Onur Ozer- Kasmir
Various Artists- Grand Cru 2007
Efdemin- Efdemin
Martin Eyerer & Oliver Klein- Movement
Agnes- Dumbles Debuts
Various Artists- Speicher CD 3

Ooh I want that Onur Ozer album.

It's excellent! Reminds me a little of Villalobos' Thé Au Harem D'Archimède but, other than that, he's got his own thing going on.

The samples I've heard sound a bit more dynamic than Thé Au Harem D'Archimède. But then I guess they are just samples.

I think it's fair to say that it's more dynamic than Harem. The connection for me is only in the way bass and percussion is used in both albums.

Err, is = are

Oh yeah I can definitely hear the sonic resemblance.

animal collective - strawberry jam
miranda lambert - crazy ex-girlfriend
throbbing gristle - part two: the endless not
lil' wayne - da drought 3
the fiery furnaces - widow city
petre inspirescu - tips
m.i.a. - kala
patrick pulsinger - dogmatic sequences: the series
soft circle - full bloom
rihanna - good girl gone bad

Glass Candy - B/E/A/T/B/O/X

Only a couple of changes since my Nov. 12 post: add Kala at the top, and the I'm Not There soundtrack near the bottom.

Now that the year is over I think that my favourites were:

Kala
Blackout
Health
Weirdo Rippers
Spiderman of the Rings
Sound of Silver
Overpowered
Friend opportunity
Load Blown
Hermaphrodite
No Shouts No Calls
Yearbook1

Now that we're 1/365 of the way through the year, list all the 2008 releases worth listening to so far:

Oh, and in advance of the broken arm
I'm pretty sure I'd like the stars of the lid album and I kinda liked the Low album, but breaker was such a good single it raised my expectations way too high.

What else do you think I would like.

Last fm never gets it right.

Now that we're 1/365 of the way through the year, list all the 2008 releases worth listening to so far:

Radiohead - In Rainbows (out today on CD/vinyl!)