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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #1 and Errata

2007-12-23T23:53:19Z

1) “Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer?” by Of Montreal And then there’s number one. The be-all/end-all of 2007 albums, Of Montreal’s nearly unclassifiable “Hissing Fauna, are You the Destroyer?” The album is a concept album, detailing Kevin...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #2

2007-12-23T19:26:06Z

2) “Strawberry Jam”, by Animal Collective Another new development of 2007: Animal Collective puts out an album that’s…actually an album?! Yep, the creepy quartet did put out a new album this year, and it’s an album in every sense (or at least m...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #3

2007-12-23T03:57:58Z

3) “Icky Thump”, by The White Stripes This, lady and gentlemen, is the album that got me back into The White Stripes. After the horrible fiasco which was “Get behind Me Satan” (which I now have learned to love slightly more than I did before), ...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #4

2007-12-21T18:13:59Z

4) “Person Pitch”, by Panda Bear It’s really hard to tell who’s in charge of Animal Collective these days. It used to be that lead singer/lead guitarist Avey Tare had a vice-like grip on the band’s music direction, as was seen in their album “H...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #5

2007-12-17T19:36:33Z

5) “Get Warmer”, by Bomb the Music Industry! And speaking of change, Bomb the Music Industry!’s new album “Get Warmer” documents the biggest change in the New-York-based DIY Punk band. This change is that when I say New-York-based, I mean forme...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #6

2007-12-16T01:14:43Z

6) “Cassadaga”, by Bright Eyes To me, it seems that 2007 was a year for artist development. A lot of great artists formed new styles and new sounds that greatly affected the way their albums sounded, for better or for worse. Conor Oberst, who e...

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The Top 10 Albums of 2007: #7

2007-12-12T01:36:41Z

7) “Somewhere in the Between”, by Streetlight Manifesto As some of you may or may not know, ska is one of my musical weaknesses. For instance, if I were, for instance, some sort of superhero (which I’m not…), then ska would be my Kryptonite, so...

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Top 10 Albums of 2007: #8

2007-12-10T00:26:39Z

8) “None Shall Pass”, by Aesop Rock Aesop Rock, or Aes Rizzle as he calls himself on various shout-outs and internet blogs, has been a pioneer of rap for ten years now, and it’s starting to show. If there’s a metaphorical bridge you have to cro...

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Top 10 Albums of 2007: #9

2007-12-08T22:05:17Z

9) “Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 21st Century”, by The World/Inferno Friendship Society One of the most intimidating aspects of listening to The World/Inferno Friendship Society is the lack of defining terms that can be applied to the ban...

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Top 10 Albums of 2007: #10

2007-12-06T17:15:24Z

10) “Church Mouth”, by Portugal. The Man I have to admit, number 10 is an album that pretty much caught me off-guard. Not only had I never heard about Portugal. The Man until this year, but when I did hear about them, I didn’t think I’d like ...

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