Year-End Critics' Polls '07

waaaittt let me guess - top 10 include LCD, MIA, Spoon, Battles, Radiohead, etc etc etc etc

Rock a Rolla did a decent job.

pretty much, yeah (except Spoon at #11 and no Battles). SO EDGY!

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How could anyone pick 50 records from 2007 without mentioning the mighty Hissing Fauna?

I totally agree with you. I was listening to some of the tracks from that record last night after not listening to any Of Montreal for awhile and, man, they still blew me away.

Especially the last track, "We Were Born . . ."

no love for Deerhoof?

That came out in January, everyone forgot about it by now. :-p

FACT magazine's 20 best albums. At last someone other than ILM mentions Studio. And there's some dance music!

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66222

The Chloe and Pantha Prince albums both sound great TBF

Have there ever been fewer debut albums represented in the critics lists than in 2007? Looks like the record biz is going for the safe nowadays.....

w00t @ Jess voting for Charlotte Hatherley

And the tracks

http://www.factmagazine.co.uk/da/66290

A pretty big chunk of the NME list is debut albums, Geir

18 of them in fact. 19 if you count 'Mirrored' as being Battles' debut album

I suspect Geir may deem the work of Battles as amelodic and rhythm dominate.

That came out in January, everyone forgot about it by now. :-p

This kills me every year. I make a point of 'remembering' albums that came out between Jan. and Apr...and then those end up dominating my year-end lists.

weirdness of the vibe list has a lot to do with fennessey's mp3-addled m.o i'm supposing, that glazed-over indifference where any song could be anywhere in the chart

not that i can really talk

yeah, i mean..."Feel Like Dyin'"?

but yeah besides that and 'make me better' (just...wtffff, awful song) it is not all that crazy a list really. maybe they shouldve dispensed with the numbering.

also, i was expecting that fabo song where he sings about spaceships. if fabo's album comes out it will be the worst critical rigmarole in years.

since the clipse, anyway

Other Music's top 25 (I'm pretty sure these are staff favorites, not top sellers):

1 TINARIWEN Aman Iman
2 PANDA BEAR Person Pitch
3 BURIAL Untrue
4 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Strawberry Jam
5 PANTHA DU PRINCE This Bliss
6 NO AGE Weirdo Rippers
7 VARIOUS ARTISTS Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments
8 M.I.A. Kala
9 JAY REATARD Blood Visions
10 MAGIK MARKERS Boss
11 KING KHAN & THE SHRINES What Is?!
12 VARIOUS ARTISTS After Dark
13 THE CAVE SINGERS Invitation Songs
14 ROBERT WYATT Comicopera
15 ERIC COPELAND Hermaphrodite
16 SPOON Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
17 BAND OF HORSES Cease to Begin
18 BLACK LIPS Good Bad Not Evil
19 VAMPIRE WEEKEND EP
20 EFDEMIN Efdemin
21 STUDIO West Coast
22 THE FIELD From Here We Go Sublime
23 CHROMATICS Night Drive
24 ST. VINCENT Marry Me
25 OH NO Dr. No's Oxperiment

top reissues can also be seen on that link

i like the OM list.

WTF! WHY DO PEOPLE ACTUALLY LIKE BAND OF HORSES??

Every time someone listens to Band of Horses, god kills a kitten.

Or even a small horse.

Or both.

stephen I kiss you

They're sort of a watered-down Built to Spill, so maybe residual love for that band has something to do with it.

The indie rock's been worshipping one watered-down Built To Spill or another (Modest Mouse, Death Cab, etc.) more than BTS themselves for damn near a decade now.

haha "the indie rock" was a funny way to phrase that, sorry, subtract "the" or add a "world/community" at the end.

teh indie rockz

who is this band the Indie Rocks and where can I buy their music

Why hasn't Ricardo Villalobos been mentioned in any of those lists? Is it because it was not an 'album' or that no one listened to it or (scary?!) that no one liked it?

Was there a new Ricardo Villalobos this year that got a lot of hype? (Last year he was on a bunch of lists...)

Fabric36, I guess?

that or fizheuer

fabric 36 never quite lived up to its pre-release hype. i liked it - but didn't love it like some of his other work.

Some debut's on NME sure, but NME doesn't count as NME only likes debut albums. It is a well-known fact that NME hates anyone who has released more than 1 album and 2 singles.

Panda Bear is the worst music I've ever heard.

Reverend is a god among men.

why is glasvegas mentioned on this thread? people are weird

amused to see my #1 of the year isn't on any list at all.. still got it

i don't really like person pitch all that much but rev hating an indie album being backed up by the dude who likes mickey avalon and skye sweetnam is shocker non-shocker of the month for sure.

it doesn't really seem like hateable music to me. it's just... there. resenting its critical love, maybe. but idk. it's kind of like wallpaper or something.

No it is not wallpaper. It is earsplitting. (And actually I don't hate indie, just the way it gets privileged so much.)

(Well, that's to say I don't hate indie on principle. I certainly hate that particular example thereof.)

idk dude whenever i listen to it i just get kinda bored. way too may stretches where nothing really happens. i like the overall mood, but i most def do not get how anyone could really love person pitch.

so you chaps who don't get person pitch - how do you feel about animal collective?

i doubt rev has heard any animal collective, but i think panda's two songs on strawberry jam are better than anything on person pitch besides maybe "i'm not"

I haven't heard Animal Collective, actually. I only downloaded Person Pitch after reading that if I liked LCDSS I'd like Panda Bear. Suffice to say, that wasn't true. Maybe after the cd I'm listening to is done, I'll pull them up on the U-Toob.