The year's best

Well, 2007 is over, and there was an enormous amount of good music this year. Sure, I was in Brazil for a lot of it, but I managed to keep up pretty well. Thus I'd say I listened to more new music this year than any other year, actually. So without further ado...

My top 20 albums of the year:

in no particular order...

Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Future of the Left - Curses
Moving Mountains - Pneuma
Maserati - Inventions for the New Season
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Deerhunter - Cryptograms
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
Battles - Mirrored
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Liars - Liars
Grinderman - Grinderman
Akimbo - Navigating the Bronze
Jesu - Conqueror
Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re A History In Rust
Stars Of The Lid - And Their Refinement Of The Decline


Disappointments:

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Living With the Living. Not bad by any means, but it's the first Ted Leo album to have bad songs on it, and the production is rather bad. That said, it's still probably in the next ten best albums after that list.

Pelican - City of Echoes. Ugh, the less said the better.
The Stooges - The Weirdness. I had such high hopes for the reunion! They even had Watt on board.

Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone. More of the same, just more stale.

Best album of 2006 I didn't hear till this year:

Caetano Veloso - Cê


Best album of 2008 I've already heard:

This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You


That's about it. See you in the new year.