Sunday, December 09, 2007

top 11 of '07

its one of my favourite musical times of the year when i get to browse the blogs and see what gems are out there that i've missed (menomena apparently), and how other people's perspective disagreed with mine. for me it's too difficult to rank albums and too difficult to track whether an album was released in 2007, so i present to you my top 11 for '07 that i listened to the most...
clipse-hell hath no fury

this was the album that restored my faith in hiphop. tight off-kilter beats, great rhymes and showing a little vulnerability too. it also gave me a whole new vocabulary when talking about crack selling.


beach house- beach house

dreamy pop with girls vocals. unfortunately we only made the last song of their gig when we tried to catch them. i am a sucker for groups with girls singing, and she has a big voice.


of montreal- hissing fauna are you the destroyer

they moved away from the twee sound of their last couple of albums and pumped up the disco side of things. kevin barnes was apparently having marriage issues and that translates into the music if not the tunes. we're going to see them on tuesday, exciting.


liars-liars

i am a huge fan of the liars, and "drum's not dead" although avant garde would have been in my top 10 of last year. this album was more accessible, but still todally rocked, especially "tiny plaster casts of everything"- when it kicks in at the end- rifftastic.

black lips- good, bad, not evil

this is classic rock n'roll. it was tough to decide to go with this album or the live album as the token black lips album (they nearly both made it). scuzzy, guitar driven rawk (or flower punk i think the genre is called), venturing into 50's style storytelling.

lcd soundsystem- sound of silver

any interview you read with james murphy he comes acroos as the smartest guy in popular music. this album was even better than the debut album, and songs like "someone great" put a lot of wistfulness behind a driving beat. he's improved his live act considerably too.

fela kuti- expensive shit



fela kuti has been my gateway into african music, and i keep turning to this album. "water he no get enemy" must be one of the funkiest songs about, it's long and wild and it packs a message.

klaxons- myths of the near future

this album apparently created "new rave", but i'm not sure how rave it is (except for the sirens at the beginning of "atlantis to interzone"). i like pretty much all the singles off this album (even the inspired cover), and i'm intrigued to see where they take it from here.

ghostface-supreme clientele

i don't know which stone i was sleeping under when this came out, but after listening to last year's fishscale i went through the back catalogue. this is an impeccable album, usual ghostface storytelling and languid rhymes, the first couple of listens of his new album haven't convinced me that he's reached this level again.

various- trojan calypso box set

this is in the car, and i never get tired of it. some saucy, some emancipatory (not sure if that is a word), all with a great propulsive beat that makes me think of sunshine.



electrelane- no shouts, no calls


i bought this on a bit of a whim, and it ticks a lot of boxes; girl singers, krautrock, melodies. i can't believe they've gone on hiatus, so this is the last album of theirs to be treasured.



panda bear- person pitch

beach boys meets animal collective. this album is skewed pop at it's finest. probly my favourite album of '07, it has great melodies, harmonies and just enough wierdness to keep things interesting


there were a lot of other great albums that it was tough not to put in this list; deerhoof-friend opportunity, animal collective- strawberry jam, yo la tengo- i am not afraid of you and i will kick your ass, mathhew dear- asa breed, super furry animals- hey venus and black moth super rainbow- dandelion gum to name a couple. what are your favourites, plug them in the comments...

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