Best New Music of 2007

[Gil-galad]

Before the year wraps up I want to get a feel for what new music everyone has been listening to, just to see what I've missed, and what I should pick up and hear before the year is out.

So the idea here is to talk about what new music you've been listening to this year, and why you like it.

As for me, there are a couple albums that stand out.

My favorite new album of this year is probably going to have to be Jens Lekman's Night Falls Over Kortedala. It's nothing ground breaking, just darn good music for the entire album. It's fairly traditional pop, sung with a kind of warm baritone voice, with a Swedish accent that is noticeable occasionally. It's an extremely down to earth CD that's a must have for pop this year.

Beirut's Flying Club Cup is another album I would call must have-- but its appeal is much more limited than Jens Lekman's, I feel. It sports a really uniquely beautiful sound, incorporating a wide range of different brass instruments, and accordion, with strings arranged by Owen Pallett (of Final Fantasy), and a singer with a strangely exotic kind of voice. If you're looking for something unique this year, definitely pick this up.

I'd be kicking myself if I left out the Arcade Fire's new album Neon Bible. While it isn't quite the masterpiece that Funeral was, it is a major contender for 'best album' of the year, for me. I really don't have much to say about this album except that it's a must have for indie rock fans.

Other albums I thought were interesting were the Battles CD Mirrored, and the new Coheed and Cambria CD No World for Tomorrow. The latter, while seems kind of meh at first, actually turns out to be a pretty fun CD to listen to as a whole-- so don't let it pass you by after only hearing a song or two of it.

So what has everyone else been listening to, so far this year?
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[Shad]

I was planning to write this up tonight, but I went through to see how many 2007 albums I had and it took me three hours to make the list. I'm going to post it for further reference and maybe make a descriptive post later.

Major highlights of the year were as follows, kind of in order. Leave it to the French to steal the #1, #2, and #7 slots.

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Maserati - Inventions For The New Season
The Tossers - Agony
Тінь Сонця (Tin' Sontsia) - Polum'yana Ruta
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
Peste Noire - Folkfuck Folie
Ai Aso & Wata - She's So Heavy split 7''
Wrnlrd - Cperadt
Clouds - Legendary Demo
Rumskib - Rumskib
Hardingrock - Grimen
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Turisas - Varangian Way
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
The Peculiar Pretzelmen - The Grackle EP

Now here is a list of all 113 albums I have so far downloaded or purchased that were released in 2007:

3 Inches of Blood - Fire Up the Blades
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideals
Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass
Ai Aso & Wata - She's So Heavy split 7''
Airiel - The Battle of Sealand
Alatyr - Alatyr
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Angmar - Aux Funérailles du Monde
Arkona - Ot Serdtsa K Nebu
Astrofaes - Idea Form Essence
Beastie Boys - The Mix Up
Behemoth - The Apostasy
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Bergthron - Leben und Lebenswille
Between the Buried and Me - Colors
Bogart Shwadchuck - Bitch Go Buy Me a Hot Dog
Boris & Merzbow - Walrus & Groon
Carnal Forge - Testify for My Victims
Clouds - Legendary Demo
Coconut Records - Nighttiming
Coheed and Cambria - No World For Tomorrow
Coliseum - No Salvation
Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Dalriada - Kikelet
Daniel Higgs - Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot
Darkest Hour - Deliver Us
Darkthrone - NWOBHM
Darkthrone - F.O.A.D
Dawn of Tears - Descent
Deathspell Omega - Fas - Ite, Maledicti, in Ignem Aeternum
destroyalldreamers - Wish I Was All Flames
Dialectic Soul - Terpsychora
Dizzee Rascal - Maths and English
Dodsferd - Fucking Your Creation
Dropkick Murphys - The Meanest of Times
Drudkh - Anti-Urban EP
Drudkh - Estrangement
Enter Shikari - Take to the Skies
Epica - The Divine Conspiracy
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
Feist - The Reminder
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Finsterforst - Weltenkraft
Gallhammer - Ill Innocence
Hardingrock - Grimen
Heidevolk - Wodan Heerst
Helrunar - Baldr Ok Iss
High On Fire - Death is This Communion
Holy Fuck - LP
HORSE the band - A Natural Death
Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon
Immolation - Shadows in the Light
Immortal Souls - Wintereich
Ivan Tsarevich - Idu Na Vy
Jagerblut - 1896-1906
Job for a Cowboy - Genesis
Kiss the Anus of a Black Cat - An Interlude to the Outermost
L'Acephale - Mord Und Totschlag
Loenndom - Faelen Fraan Norr
Lord Belial - Revelation - The 7th Seal
Lumsk - Det Vilde Kor
Månegarm - Vargstenen
Marduk - Rom 512
Maserati - Inventions For The New Season
Mgła - Mdłości & Further Down the Nest
Mono - Gone
Naglfar - Harvest
Nerlich - Defabricated Process
Nerthus - The Crowned's Reunion
Oakhelm - Betwixt and Between
Opeth - The Roundhouse Tapes
Panthers - The Trick
Pelican - City of Echoes
Peste Noire - Lorraine Rehearsal LP
Peste Noire - Folkfuck Folie
Poropetra - Sinhirwi
Primordial - To the Nameless Dead
Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Rumskib - Rumskib
Sanctity - Road to Bloodshed
Scale the Summit - Monument
Scott Walker - The Drift
Shining - V - Halmstad
Slavia - Strength and Vision
Slavigrom - Návrat Slovanskej Nenávisti
Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
Sturmpercht - A Wilde Zeit
Sturmpercht - Sturm ins Leben wild hinein
Svyatogor - With Wolfish Stalk and by Wings of Black
The Absence - Riders of the Plague
The Angelic Process - Weighing Souls with Sand
The Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
The Cursed - Room Full of Sinners
The Number Twelve Looks Like You - Mongrel
The Peculiar Pretzelmen - The Grackle EP
The Ruins of Beverast - Split with Urfaust
The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
The Tossers - Agony
Therion - Gothic Kabbalah
Times New Viking - Present the Paisley Reich
Тінь Сонця (Tin' Sontsia) - Polum'yana Ruta
Totimoshi - Ladrón
Turisas - Varangian Way
Urfaust - Split with Ruins of Beverast
Vesania - Distractive Killusions
Vital Remains - Icons of Evil
Vitalij Kuprij - Glacial Inferno
Vreid - I Krig
Wolfchant - A Pagan Storm
World's End Girlfriend - Hurtbreak Wonderland
Wrnlrd - Cperadt
Zonaria - Infamy and the Breed

[retrospect.]

Colleen - Les Ondes Silencieuses
Alcest - Souvenirs d'un autre monde
Maserati - Inventions For The New Season

werd.
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[Gil-galad]

Woah, I totally forgot that The Shins' Wincing the Night Away was a 2007 release! I swear I had it back in 2006. Huh. Either way, that is an absolutely fantastic album, one of their best, if not their best, which is certainly saying something.

I also really need to get that Colleen CD. Badly.
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[Shrew]

Heh, the only new albums I got this year where In Rainbows and Neon Bible. I sort of suck.

Both very much enjoyed though.
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Fear our Vagueness.

[Yohn]

I'm lame. D:

I didn't really get a lot of albums this year that I was absolutely thrilled with. Here are the ones I did enjoy. :3

Anberlin - Cities
Fall Out Boy - Infinity on High
Maroon 5 - It Won't Be Soon Before Long

And I honestly can't think of anything else that comes to mind that I bought this year. :/
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"And as the lion slaughters man, I am the wolf and you're the lamb." ~Blind Guardian

[Yohn]

Okay. Double posting and whatnot, but it's been some time. I think I've found my favourite album for this year.

Scouting for Girls' self-titled album is totally rocking my socks, and I can't get enough of it. :3
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"And as the lion slaughters man, I am the wolf and you're the lamb." ~Blind Guardian

[Yvl]

Dream Theater's Systematic Chaos is by far the best I've heard in a while. Same with Nightwish's new album, though it didnt last quite as long.
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[Boogeyman]

The Kaiser Chief's album whose name escapes me at the moment has been getting a lot of playtime in casa de Boogeyman.

Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace by the Foo Fighters is also an amazing album by one of my favorite bands. They may be a bit more mainstream than a lot of the stuff mentioned before in this thread but that doesn't stop Dave Grohl from being my hero.

Chase This Light from Jimmy Eat World is yet another solid outing from them.

Sawdust from the Killers may not be groundbreaking or even necessarily new since it is just a bunch of B-Sides and unreleased tracks but God help me I love it. Also the new song they did record for it Tranquilize is amazing and features Lou Reed of Velvet Underground fame.

I'm sure I'll think of some others later.
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