fave albums of 2007

Another year, another smattering of good albums. There were plenty of shitty albums released this year, too, but you won’t find any of them here 🙂

In years past, I’ve written a thing or two about each album and how it left an impression on me. Due to the sheer volume of good music released this year, I have a longer list than usual and devoting a few sentences to each album would be too long for even the most avid reader. So instead I present to you a much-longer list of albums from 2007 that thoroughly impressed me. Of particular note is this year’s winner of my “Album of the Year” award going to The National’s Boxer. Enjoy!

A Place To Bury Strangers – A Place To Bury Strangers
Air – Pocket Symphony
Aqueduct – Or Give Me Death
Arcade Fire – Neon Bible
Band of Horses – Cease To Begin
Battles – Mirrored
The Besnard Lakes – …Are The Dark Horse
Black Francis – Bluefinger
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club – Baby 81
Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew – Spirit If
Caribou – Andorra
Crippled Black Phoenix – A Love of Shared Disasters
Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity
Dinosaur Jr. – Beyond
Do Make Say Think – You, You’re A History In Rust
Explosions In The Sky – All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
The Fields – Everything Last Winter
Film School – Hideout
Holy Fuck – LP
Idlewild – Make A New World
Interpol – Our Love To Admire
Jesu – Conqueror
LCD Soundsystem – Sound of Silver
Maps – We Can Create
Menomena – Friend And Foe
Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
The National – Boxer
Neverending White Lights – Act 2: The Blood and the Life Eternal
The New Pornographers – Challengers
Nine Inch Nails – Year Zero
Queens Of The Stone Age – Era Vulgaris
Radiohead – In Rainbows
Sigur Rós – Hvarf/Heim
Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Twilight Sad – 14 Autumns and 15 Winters
Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye
The Weakerthans – Reunion Tour
Ween – La Cucaracha
The White Stripes – Icky Thump
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
Yeasayer – All Hour Cymbals