Best album of 2007

[son of albert]

A bit if a shit year?

[stevenl]

More of a quality not quantity year.

[Cassiel]

Don't know lads. I reckon there's a few in there will be keepers. It's always the slow burners.

Wish I could add the Sarabeth Tucek album. Truly lovely.

[stevenl]

I can believe I forgot:
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
When your i-tunes player lists the genre as "unclassifiable" you just know you're on to a winner.

[Johan]

Top 10 so far:

1.  Neon Bible – Arcade Fire
     Grinderman – Grinderman
     Boxer – The National
4.  Yes, U - The Devastations
     White Chalk – PJ Harvey
     Raising Sand – Robert Plant & Alison Krauss
     In Rainbows – Radiohead
     Sky Blue Sky – Wilco
     West – Lucinda Williams
10. We Are Him - Angels Of Light
     The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
     Ma Fleur - The Cinematic Orchestra
     From One To Another - The Darling Downs
     The Good, The Bad and The Queen - The Good, The Bad and The Queen
     The Shepherd’s Dog – Iron & Wine
     100 Days, 100 Nights - Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings
     Stolen Apples - Paul Kelly
     Jean Lee and the Black Dog - Ed Kuepper
     Night Falls Over Kortedala – Jens Lekman
     The Stage Names – Okkervil River
     The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - OST
     Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters - The Twilight Sad

[mark t]

that vote for the new porographers is a mistake, if I could change it it'd be the burial cd (thanksAdam).

[Eke]

the burial cd (thanks Adam).

Seconded. Took a while but I absolutely adore it now. Babs was right, the others are just records in a list.

[lonesomesquare]

Voting will start in a week or so

Hold tight Johan, you haven't seen my suggestion list yet! Current status: still in progress.

I'll admit that you all had to wait way too long for my promised suggestion list, but on top of the existing list, here are 15 other albums:

From Scandinavia
Stafraenn Hákon, Gummi (Iceland)
Kim Hiorthøy, My Last Day (Norway)
Jan Mayen, So Much Better Than Your Normal Life (Iceland)
Murder, The Stockholm Syndrome (Denmark) [a 2007 lsq discovery of a 2006 release]
Mugison, Mugiboogie (Iceland)
Sigur Rós, Hvarf/Heim (Iceland)
Valgeir Sigurdsson, Ekvilibrium (Iceland)
Washington, Astral Sky (Norway)

From Benelux
Absynthe Minded, There Is Nothing (Belgium)
De Portables, Topless Is More (Belgium)
Spinvis, Goochelaars & Geesten (The Netherlands)
Zita Swoon, Big City (Belgium)

From The World's Outskirts
The Afghan Whigs, Unbreakable - A Retrospective 1990-2006 (USA)
Cornelius, Sensuous (Japan) [a 2007 worldwide release]
Nitin Sawhney, The Namesake OST (United Kingdom)

Enjoy!

[Johan]

I'll admit that you all had to wait way too long for my promised suggestion list, but on top of the existing list, here are 15 other albums:

From Scandinavia
Stafraenn Hákon, Gummi (Iceland)
Kim Hiorthøy, My Last Day (Norway)
Jan Mayen, So Much Better Than Your Normal Life (Iceland)
Murder, The Stockholm Syndrome (Denmark) [a 2007 lsq discovery of a 2006 release]
Mugison, Mugiboogie (Iceland)
Sigur Rós, Hvarf/Heim (Iceland)
Valgeir Sigurdsson, Ekvilibrium (Iceland)
Washington, Astral Sky (Norway)

From Benelux
Absynthe Minded, There Is Nothing (Belgium)
De Portables, Topless Is More (Belgium)
Spinvis, Goochelaars & Geesten (The Netherlands)
Zita Swoon, Big City (Belgium)

From The World's Outskirts
The Afghan Whigs, Unbreakable - A Retrospective 1990-2006 (USA)
Cornelius, Sensuous (Japan) [a 2007 worldwide release]
Nitin Sawhney, The Namesake OST (United Kingdom)

Enjoy!

So where are the links?
And no Fixkes, LSQ?

[lonesomesquare]

So where are The Links? And no Fixkes, LSQ?

I didn't really like the new album by The Links - called Priorité de Droite - so I did not put them in my list. And you can imagine that on this side of the border, The Fixkes have had enough airplay already. Maar toch bedankt om het aantevrage, Johan!

[mark t]

Burial - Untrue
Vic Chesnutt - North star deserter

There's a couple more I wouldn't mind recognised but lists come and lists go and it doesn't really matter.
These two though, I'll still be playing these in 20 years time.

only just heard Vic died towards the end of last year.  He shares vocals on two tracks from Ricky Lee Jones last Balm in Gilead - 'remember me' and 'his jeweled floor' with Alison Krauss and Victoria Williams.

....... on his jeweled floor, no one ever falls .....

Seems like an OK way to call it a day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/dec/29/vic-chesnutt-tribute