The Best Albums Of 2007

Top 50

1. Let’s stay friends - LES SAVY FAV
2. 23 - BLONDE REDHEAD
3. Icky thump - THE WHITE STRIPES
4. Grinderman - GRINDERMAN
5. We were dead before the ship even sank - MODEST MOUSE
6. Favourite worst nightmare - ARCTIC MONKEYS
7. A weekend in the city - BLOC PARTY
8. Neon bible - ARCADE FIRE
9. Our love to admire - INTERPOL
10. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - SPOON
11. Tromatic reflexxions - VON SUDENFED
12. Baby 81 - BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB
13. Beyond - DINOSAUR JR.
14. I’ll sleep when you're dead - EL-P
15. Sound of silver - LCD SOUNDSYSTEM
16. Proof of youth - THE GO! TEAM
17. Cassadaga - BRIGHT EYES
18. Because of the times - KINGS OF LEON
19. Wincing the night away - THE SHINS
20. In rainbows - RADIOHEAD
21. Boxer - THE NATIONAL
22. Under the blacklight - RILO KILEY
23. Boss - MAGIK MARKERS
24. Curses - FUTURE OF THE LEFT
25. LP - HOLY FUCK
26. Myth takes - !!!
27. Spirit if… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: KEVIN DREW
28. Mosaic - LOVE OF DIAGRAMS
29. Lose all time - YOU SAY PARTY! WE SAY DIE!
30. A Place To Bury Strangers - A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
31. Era vulgaris - QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE
32. The black and white album - THE HIVES
33. Voxtrot - VOXTROT
34. All hour cymbals - YEASAYER
35. The shepherd's dog - IRON AND WINE
36. Learn to sing like a star - KRISTIN HERSH
37. The shapes we make - MARY TIMONY BAND
38. No shouts no calls - ELECTRELANE
39. Everything last winter - FIELDS
40. Plague park - HANDSOME FURS
41. Liars - LIARS
42. Hissing fauna, are you the destroyer? - OF MONTREAL
43. The flying club cup - BEIRUT
44. Fur and gold - BAT FOR LASHES
45. White chalk - P.J. HARVEY
46. Bluefinger - BLACK FRANCIS
47. Excellent Italian greyhound - SHELLAC
48. Reformation post TLC - THE FALL
49. Widow city - THE FIERY FURNACES
50. Men's needs, women's needs, whatever - THE CRIBS

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Myths of the near future - KLAXONS, Fantastic playroom - NEW YOUNG PONY CLUB, Kala - M.I.A., None shall pass - AESOP ROCK, 8 diagrams - WU TANG CLAN, The big doe rehab - GHOSTFACE KILLAH, Good bad not evil - THE BLACK LIPS, Lust lust lust - THE RAVEONETTES, Grand animals - ROBBERS ON HIGH STREET, Cease to begin - BAND OF HORSES, In our bedroom after the war - STARS, Lion the girl - MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Friend and foe - MENOMENA, Challengers - THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, Turn the lights out - THE PONYS, Pre-emptive false rapture - CHROME HOOF, Strawberry jam - ANIMAL COLLECTIVE, Trees outside the academy - THURSTON MOORE, Woke on a whaleheart - BILL CALLAHAN, A brighter beat - MALCOLM MIDDLETON, Prinzhorn Dance School - PRINZHORN DANCE SCHOOL, It's a bit complicated - ART BRUT, Yours truly, angry mob - KAISER CHIEFS, An end has a start - EDITORS, Ten new messages - THE RAKES, War stories - UNKLE, Random spirit lover - SUNSET RUBDOWN, Some loud thunder - CLAP YOUR HANDS SAY YEAH, Wooden Shjips - WOODEN SHJIPS, Drums and guns - LOW, Rise to your knees - MEAT PUPPETS, Smokey rolls down thunder canyon - DEVENDRA BANHART, Shotter's nation - BABYSHAMBLES, Our earthly pleasures - MAXIMO PARK, Friend opportunity - DEERHOOF, Read & burn 03 - WIRE, Mantaray - SIOUXSIE, Let in the light - SHANNON WRIGHT, The adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn - COCOROSIE, The Good, The Bad & The Queen - THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE QUEEN, Make another world - IDLEWILD, Yes yes vindictive - OPERATOR PLEASE, The Blakes - THE BLAKES, Strange house - THE HORRORS, Attack decay sustain release - SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO, Person pitch - PANDA BEAR, Mirrored - BATTLES, We can create - MAPS, Ash Wednesday - ELVIS PERKINS, The western lands - GRAVENHURST, Tied & true - THE DETROIT COBRAS, What’s the time Mr. Wolf? - NOISETTES, Happiness Ltd. - HOT HOT HEAT, Once upon a time in the west - HARD-FI, Easy tiger - RYAN ADAMS, Sky blue sky - WILCO, The stage names - OKKERVIL RIVER, The reminder - FEIST, Untrue - BURIAL, Graduation - KANYE WEST, American gangster - JAY-Z, New wave - AGAINST ME!, Cast iron soul - DANNY AND DUSTY, Three easy pieces - BUFFALO TOM, Zeitgeist - SMASHING PUMPKINS, Echoes, silence, patience and grace - FOO FIGHTERS, The sun and the moon - THE BRAVERY, Sex change - TRANS AM, Emerald city - JOHN VANDERSLICE, The inevitable rise and liberation of NiggyTardust! - SAUL WILLIAMS, Hope for men - PISSED JEANS, Weirdo rippers - NO AGE, Cryptograms - DEERHUNTER, Oblivion with bells - UNDERWORLD, Night of the furies - THE ROSEBUDS, Asleep at heaven's gate - ROGUE WAVE, Living with the living - TED LEO AND THE PHARMACISTS, In the garden - EIGHTIES MATCHBOX B-LINE DISASTER, Little amber bottles - BLANCHE, Armchair apocrypha - ANDREW BIRD, Saltbreakers - LAURA VEIRS, Astronomy for dogs - THE ALIENS, Roots and echoes - THE CORAL, Hey trouble - THE CONCRETES, Applause cheer boo hiss - LAND OF TALK, The modern tribe - CELEBRATION, Why bother - ADULT., † - JUSTICE, Andorra - CARIBOU, Finding forever - COMMON, Maths & English - DIZZEE RASCAL, Back to bizznizz - LETHAL BIZZLE, Datarock - DATAROCK, Love/Hate - NINE BLACK ALPS, Cookies - 1990s, Volta - BJORK, The enemy chorus - THE EARLIES, Puzzle - BIFFY CLYRO, Magic - BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN, Chrome dreams II - NEIL YOUNG, Comicopera - ROBERT WYATT, Washington square serenade - STEVE EARLE, West - LUCINDA WILLIAMS, You follow me - NINA NASTASIA & JIM WHITE, 12 Crass songs - JEFFREY LEWIS, Watch the fireworks - EMMA POLLOCK, Besnard Lakes are the dark horse - BESNARD LAKES, Panic prevention - JAMIE T, New magnetic wonder - THE APPLES IN STEREO, Going way out with Heavy Trash - HEAVY TRASH, Candylion - GRUFF RHYS, Western Xterminator - RTX, If the ocean gets rough - WILLY MASON, Book of bad breaks - THEE MORE SHALLOWS, Ode to ochrasy - MANDO DIAO, All that to the wall - THE NARRATOR, God save the Clientele - THE CLIENTELE, Release the stars - RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Forts - THE BOGGS, Abandoned language - DALEK, Dumb luck - DNTEL, Sticking fingers into sockets - LOS CAMPESINOS!, In camera - ARTHUR AND YU, It's not how far you fall, it's the way you land - SOULSAVERS, New seasons - THE SADIES, Fourteen autumns and fifteen winters - TWILIGHT SAD, With lasers - BONDE DO ROLE, Orchestra of wolves - GALLOWS, Bad football - THE TAKEOVERS, Best friends in love - BANG LIME, Super taranta! - GOGOL BORDELLO, We are the night - THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, From here we go sublime - THE FIELD, Twilight of the innocents - ASH, Control - GOODBOOKS, Girls and weather - RUMBLE STRIPS, We'll live and die in these towns - THE ENEMY, Teenager - THE THRILLS, The hair the TV the baby and the band - IMPERIAL TEEN, Anytown graffiti - PELA, Country mouse city house - JOSH ROUSE, Lady's bridge - RICHARD HAWLEY, Made of bricks - KATE NASH, Elegies to lessons learnt - ILIKETRAINS, Hvarf / Heim - SIGUR ROS, 4 way diablo - MONSTER MAGNET, Hideout - FILM SCHOOL, Our ill wills - SHOUT OUT LOUDS, Autumn of the seraphs - PINBACK, Transnormal skiperoo - JIM WHITE, I can't go on I’ll go on - THE BROKEN WEST, Love is simple - AKRON/FAMILY, Fort nightly - WHITE RABBITS, Shelter from the ash - SIX ORGANS OF ADMITTANCE, Kingdom of fear - SHITDISCO, Pilgrimage - OM, Down below it’s chaos - KINSKI, Close to paradise - PATRICK WATSON, Yes U - DEVASTATIONS, Manhattan Love Suicides - MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, Voice Of The Seven Woods - VOICE OF THE SEVEN WOODS, Population - THE MOST SERENE REPUBLIC, Sawdust - THE KILLERS