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Is it too early to start doing top records of 2007 lists?

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Inlander:
A month or so ago I gave a friend of mine a wedding present which consisted of five of my favourite albums from this year. They were:

- The Shins: Wincing the Night Away (this album grows more and more on me each time I hear it)
- The Go! Team: Proof of Youth (or, "How to do exactly the same thing you did the first time around, but better.")
- Kevin Drew: Spirit If . . . (this seems to me like the post-You Forgot It In People chill-out album)
- Beirut: The Flying Club Cup (when I first heard this I couldn't tell if it was the first album or the new one. When I listen to it now I realise it's better and more gorgeous than the first one in every way)
- Iron & Wine: The Shepherd's Dog (beautiful as ever, but there's a big engine with lots of grunt hiding just under the bonnet of this album. Sam Beam controls it all perfectly)

I'm also currently loving the shit out of the Jesse James soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis. Also, a couple of local releases that won't have received any attention outside certain parts of Melbourne, but which bear mentioning: Stories for Another Day by Duckdive - gorgeous acoustic folky female-sung stuff that's tougher than it seems, and which deals to a large extent with the experience of being an Australian living in London, and New Music to Fall Asleep To by Justin Ashworth, which is really laid-back experimental ambient partly-electronic stuff.

Oh, and Person Pitch by Panda Bear. Hell yeah, Person Pitch.

tomselleck69:
top 10 list aka "god i could probably stand to read something aside from pitchfork"
1. jens lekman - night falls over kortedala
2. fiery furnaces - widow city
3. battles - mirrored
4. of montreal - hissing fauna, are you the destroyer?
5. frog eyes - tears of the valedictorian
6. pig destroyer - phantom limb
7. the national - boxer
8. dan deacon - spiderman of the rings
9. justice - (crosssssss)
10. arcade fire - neon bible

honorable mentions:
okkervil river - the stage names
beirut - flying club cup
architecture in helsinki - places like this
los campesinos - sticking fingers into sockets
pharoahe monch - desire
and THE DETHALBUM

Johnny C:
everyone in this thread is missing future of the left and that is a god damn crime

walrus2588:
My favorites so far,

Okkervil River-The Stage Names
Animal Collective-Strawberry Jam
Dan Deacon-Spiderman of the Rings
Sunset Rubdown-Random Spirit Lover
Justice-Cross
Frog Eyes-Tears of the Valedictorian
The Arcade Fire-Neon Bible
Radiohead-In Rainbows
Menomena-Friend and Foe
Saul Williams-The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust

Tom:
No mention of Andrew Bird? shame on you all!

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