The end of a year means a couple of different things. In the music critic field, it means that there are top 10 record lists coming out, top ten songs, top ten albums, year in review type articles coming out in every paper. It’s a standard in the music journalism industry to figure out what makes up the best of 2007, and to sum up what we listened to most in the past year. It’s times like this where a viewing of High Fidelity is in order, where the industry goes back to the list format. It’s a subjective, by no means comprehensive approach to trying to remember what we enjoyed, and alternatively, what we avoid.
Everyone always gripes about how there either is too many for a list of just ten, or alternatively how there weren’t enough albums to make a top ten of classic albums. I figured I’d do a quick sift through my Ipod, to find a comprehensive list of albums that took a hold of me at some point in the past year, that happened to have been released in 2007 (to the best of my knowledge). Note that out of this list, I’m sure that there will be a few that were released in 2006, and I either hadn’t discovered until 2007, or that I am just mistaking, since I am not bothering to do enough research on to double check it’s release date. In the upcoming blogs, I’ll be narrowing this list down to my personal top ten, and mentioning those that may not have made it to the list. So without further adou, heres my top 20 albums of 2007, in alphabetical order:
Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
The Bird and the Bee – self titled
The Decemberists – Crane Wife
Elliott Smith – New Moon (technically reissue of rarities, but released in 2007)
Emily Haines – Knives Don’t Have Your Back
Feist – The Reminder
Fountains of Wayne – Traffic and Weather
Grizzly Bear – Yellow House
Joseph Arthur – Nuclear Daydream
Matt Jasper – As A Matter Of Fact
The New Pornographers – Challengers
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Rilo Kiley – Under The Blacklight
Sean Lennon – Friendly Fire
The Shins – Wincing The Night Away
Spoon – Gagagaga
Voxtrot – Voxtrot
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Winterpills – The Light Divides
Tags: , High Fidelity, lists, top 10, top 20
