A rough list of last year’s favorites
January 3rd, 2008 by Mosi Reeves in Music newsHappy New Year! I just got back from a much-needed vacation, so I didn’t get a chance to share my favorite albums of 2007. So here’s my very rough list of several standouts. It’s a small sampling of the 200-300 albums I listened to — and that might be a conservative estimate. See you in ’08.
- Paul Weller, Hit Parade (Yep Roc)
- Lily Allen, Alright, Still (Capitol)
- Deerhunter, Cryptograms (Kranky)
- Carlos Niño & Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, Fill the Heart Shaped Cup (Alpha Pup)
- El-P, I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead (Definitive Jux)
- Lifesavas, Gutterfly: The Original Soundtrack (Quannum)
- Apples in Stereo, New Magnetic Wonder (Yep Roc)
- Battles, Mirrored (Warp)
- Feist, The Reminder (Cherry Tree/Interscope)
- The Cat Empire (Velour)
- Von Sudenfed, Tromatic Reflexxions (Domino)
- Simian Mobile Disco, Attack Decay Sustain Release (Interscope)
- Yesterdays Universe, Prepare for a New Yesterday (Volume One) (Stones Throw)
- Panda Bear, Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
- Lavender Diamond, Imagine Our Love (Matador)
- Anthony Hamilton, Southern Comfort (Merovingian)
- Lawrence, Lowlights from the Past and Future (Mule)
- Amy Winehouse, Back to Black (Universal Republic)
- Digitalism, Idealism (Astralwerks)
- Rob Crow, Living Well (Temporary Residence)
- Sonic Youth, Daydream Nation (reissue) (Geffen)
- The Good, the Bad & the Queen (Virgin)
- Caribou, Andorra (Merge)
- The Rurals, The Grass Is Always Greener (Peng!)
- Booka Shade, DJ-Kicks (!K7)
- Prefuse 73, Preparations (Warp)
- Little Brother, Getback (ABB)
- PJ Harvey, White Chalk (Island)
- Shape of Broad Minds, Craft of the Lost Art (Lex)
- Henrik Schwarz, Live (!K7)
- M.I.A., Kala (Interscope)
- Dimlite, This Is Embracing (Sonar Kollektiv)
- Beans, Thorns (Adored & Exploited)
- Black Lips, Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
- The Field, From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
- Panacea, The Scenic Route (Glow-in-the-Dark)
- Habersham, Outside the Box EP (Audio Therapy)
- Saul Williams, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust! (self-released)
- Supermayer, Save the World (Kompakt)
- Talib Kweli and Madlib, Liberation (Blacksmith)
- Ellen Allien, Time Out Presents the Other Side Berlin (Deaf Dumb & Blind)
- Meshell Ndegeocello, The World Has Made Me the Man of My Dreams (Universal)
- Prodigy, Return of the Mac (Koch)
- Pattie Blingh and the Akebulan 5, Sagala (Ramp)
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January 3rd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
lily\\\’s came out 2006 - I was gonna put it on my own best of and found out I was too late. Doh.
January 4th, 2008 at 12:06 am
Actually, it came out in the UK in 2006. It was released in the U.S. in January 2007.
January 4th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
doh! i always think that allmusic.com’s date on releases is the US one not the UK one. well it’s on my list then!
January 4th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
Allmusic.com is usually on-point, but it sometimes fudges dates. Lily Allen was a unique case, though — it got so much hype overseas that U.S. writers began reviewing it in the fall of 2006. Also, the album was originally supposed to come out by the end of that year, but the label pushed it back to January to avoid year-end competition.