Albums Of The Year 2007 (Ste)

Wow this was much harder then I though it was going to be and i'm still not sure if i'm entirely happy about it. there was just so much good music in 2007
in no particular order what so ever at all (was hard enough getting the list down no way in hell am i going to number them)


Hella - There's No 666 In Outer Space

There's No 666 In Outer Space is the fourth full length album by Hella, It is the first Hella album to feature the new expanded five member line up, and is also the first to feature vocals on every track.A lot of people when this album came out where like: 'its not Hella'. Zach Hill's drumming remains a spastic frenzy. Spencer Seim's guitar still soars with high-speed precision weirdness. I was hooked from the first listen.

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Panda Bear - Person Pitch

For an album constructed from so many constituent parts, Person Pitch is amazingly warm and inviting at times, wrapping around the ears, nestling the head, and squeezing like a nice familial bear hug after years of no contact.

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Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm

Her debut record, In Advance of the Broken Arm, is culled from songs written by herself in her bedroom over a two-year period, with production and drum work by Hella's Zach Hill. oh yeah she can really play guitar (she shreds). She plays using the hammer-on technique, making it all kind of sound like Steve Vai soloing constantly over OOIOO tracks. This album combines utterly maddening complexity with candyfloss pop hooks. (oh and shes a fox too)

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Other Men - Wake Up Swimming

"I'm a little girl when I'm around you /
I'm a screaming little bitch"
Rob Crow does it again (his 435th band i think). Heavy Vegetable are back under the Other Men moniker. Other Men have turned away from the fractured and discordant heaviness of Heavy Vegetable in favor of a decidedly more poppy and compact style.
Poppy it may be at times, but this album also rocks.

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Battles - Mirrored

had to put it on the list (wanted to leave it off cuz everyone has heard it and knew it would be on Robs list but i just couldn't). i saw theses guys three times this year and every time was just as exciting as the last an amazing record that defies classification, an experimental tour de force.Since Rob already posted my fav song off mirrored heres a bonus track of the Japanese version of mirrored.

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Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

This album quietly creeps under your skin.great attention to detail is on show on this record. i have no idea what Spencer Krug is singing about but there is some very complex though processes going on.

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Chrome Hoof - Pre-Emptive False Rapture

I only just recently got this album, and it jumped up and slapped me in the face and my jaw is still on the floor. its future code sounds will melt your face. my mission in 2008 is to see chrome hoof live.

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Holy Fuck - LP

An exciting blend of aggressive rhythm and nuanced, skillfully manipulated noise.

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Les Savy Fav - Lets Stay Friends

A more focused les savy fav , they have refined there music to a science.You can almost taste Tim Harrington's sweat as you listen to it.

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Adebisi Shank - this is the ep of a band called Adebisi Shank

all the engery of there spazzout live performances is captured on the Ep, it pounds out of the stereo and puts images of flaying limbs in my head. much heft.

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the ones i wanted to much to add but didnt have the space. all the releases on Armed Ambitions this year ( terrordactyl ,vimanas, Herv and bats), Thee More Shallows - Book Of Bad Breaks, Subtle -Yell&Ice , Old Time Relijun - Catharsis In Crisis, Of Montreal -Hissing Fauna, Odd Nosdam - Level Live Wires, Jesu - Conqueror , Jel - Greenball 3rd , Elliott Smith -New Moon , El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead , Crippled Black Phoenix -A Love Of Shared Disasters, Big Business - "Here Comes The Waterworks".

i could easly keep going but i have to stop and i'm sure i'm leaving something out i love but well, so is life. ....................liars -liars, dan deacon - rings of spiderman, and beastie boys the mix up see knew i would forget some