Wednesday, January 3, 2001

McQ's Favorite Albums Of 2007

Last updated 09.22.2015

HIGHEST RECOMMENDS

1. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? - Of Montreal: Deep emotional crisis and flamboyant pop pastiche merge electrically in one of the densest, most vibrant, and most personal releases of the decade.

2. In Rainbows - Radiohead
3. Sound Of Silver - LCD Soundsystem
4. And The Refinement Of The Stars Of The Lid
5. Children Running Through - Patty Griffin
6. Grinderman

STRONG RECOMMENDS
7. Boxer - The National
8. Drums And Guns - Low
9. New Magnetic Wonder - Apples In Stereo
10. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga - Spoon
11. Copia - Eluvium
12. Neon Bible - The Arcade Fire
13. The Stage Names - Okkervil River
14. Kala - M.I.A.
15. 45:33 - LCD Soundsystem
16. Back To Black - Amy Winehouse

SOLID RECOMMENDS
17. The Shepherd's Dog - Iron & Wine
18. Friend And Foe - Menomena
19. Icky Thump - The White Stripes
20. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
21. From Here We Go Sublime - The Field
22. Night Falls On Kortedela -Jens Lekmen
23. Armchair Apocrypha - Andrew Bird
24. Untrue - Burial
25. Mirrored - Battles
26. Fur And Gold - Bat For Lashes
27. Magic - Bruce Springsteen
28. Wincing The Night Away - The Shins
29. Year Zero - Nine Inch Nails
30. Orphans - Tom Waits
31. Candylion - Gruff Rhys
32. Myth Takes - !!!
33. Random Spirit Lover - Sunset Rubdown
34. The Flying Club Cup - Beirut
35. The Historical Conquests Of Josh Ritter
36. Love Is Simple - Akron/Family
37. Wild Mountain Nation - Blitzen Trapper
38. Spiderman Of The Rings - Dan Deacon
39. The Besnard Lakes Are The Dark Horses
40. At My Age - Nick Lowe
41. A Place To Bury Strangers
42. New Wave - Against Me!
43. Let's Stay Friends - Les Savy Fav
44. The Black And White Album - The Hives
45. Marry Me - St. Vincent
46. Lupe Fiasco's The Cool
47. Holy Fuck
48. Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - Miranda Lambert
49. The Scene Of The Crime - Betty Lavette
50. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
51. The Con - Tegan And Sara
52. We Belong To The Staggering Evening - Ike Reilly Assassination
53. Venus On Earth - Dengue Fever
54. Desire - Pharaoh Monch
55. Ire Works - Dillinger Escape Plan
56. American Gangster - Jay-Z
57. The Magic Position - Patrick Wolf
58. Reunion Tour - The Weakerthans
59. Super Taranta - Gogol Bordello
60. Tio Bitar - Dungen
61. Under The Blacklight - Rilo Kiley
62. Hey Hey My My Yo Yo - Junior Senior

MILD RECOMMENDS
63. Living With The Living - Ted Leo And The Pharmacists
64. Magic Potion - The Black Keys
65. We Are Him - Angels Of Light
66. Cryptograms - Deerhunter
67. Emerald City - John Vanderslice
68. Andorra - Caribou
69. 23 - Blonde Redhead
70. The Reminder - Feist
71. Combinations - Eisley
72. Vessels - Wolf & Cub
73. In Our Bedroom After The War - Stars
74. Ma Fleur - The Cinematic Orchestra
75. Friend Opportunity - Deerhoof
76. Hats Off To The Buskers - The View
77. Writer's Block - Peter, Bjorn & John
78. Sky Blue Sky - Wilco
79. Rise Above - The Dirty Projectors
80. Because Of The Times - Kings Of Leon
81. Big Doe Rehab - Ghostface Killah
82. Good Bad Not Evil - The Black Lips
83. Cross - Justice
84. Easy Tiger - Ryan Adams
85. Sweet Warrior - Richard Thompson
86. You, You're A History In Rust - Do Make Say Think
87. Strawberry Jam - Animal Collective
88. Graduation - Kanye West
89. Myths Of The Near Future - The Klaxons
90. Finding Forever - Common
91. Challengers - The New Pornographers
92. Favourite Worst Nightmare - The Arctic Monkeys
93. Raising Sand - Robert Plant And Alison Krause
94. Spirit If... - The Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew
95. Voxtrot
96. The Good, The Bad, & The Queen
97. Volta - Bjork
98. Steingarten - Pole
99. Trees Outside The Academy - Thurston Moore
100. Planet Of Ice - Minus The Bear
101. Attack Decay Sustain Release - Simian Disco Mobile
102. Cease To Begin - Band Of Horses
103. White Chalk - PJ Harvey
104. We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank - Modest Mouse
105. Tromatic Refexions - Von Sudenfed

2007 Albums Of Critical Note I've Yet To Assess In Full
A Weekend In The City - Bloc Party
Alegranzo - El Guichno
Aman Iman: Water Is Life - Tinariwen
Da Drought 3 - Lil' Wayne


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