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The Best Rock Albums of 2007

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  1. Elegi: Sistereis (Miasmah)
  2. Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
  3. Alcest: Souvenirs D'Un Autre Monde (Prophecy)
  4. Gnaw Their Tongues: An Epiphanic Vomiting Of Blood (Roadburn)
  5. LCD Soundsystem: 45:33 (DFA)
  6. Suishou No Fune: Prayer for Chibi (Holy Mountain)
  7. St Vincent: Marry Me (Beggars Banquet)
  8. Battles: Mirrored (Warp)
  9. Gultskra Artikler: Kasha Iz Topora (Miasmah)
    7/10
  10. Light Of Shipwreck: From The Idle Cylinders (Crucial Bliss)
  11. Alfredo Costa-Monteiro: Epicycle (Etude)
  12. Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)
  13. Ahousen: Ahousen (PFS)
  14. Sir Richard Bishop: While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (Locust Music)
  15. Shit And Shine: Cunts With Roses (Noisestar Music)
  16. KTL: KTL 2 (Editions Mego)
  17. A Sunny Day In Glasgow: Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
  18. Dead C: Future Artists (Ba Da Bing)
  19. Deerhunter: Cryptograms (Kranky)
  20. LCD Soundsystem: Sound of Silver (DFA)
  21. Burning Star Core: Operator Dead Post Abandoned (No Quarter)
  22. Besnard Lakes: Are The Dark Horse (Jagjaguwar)
  23. Grails: Burning Off Impurities (Temporary Residence, 2007)
  24. Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo (Ace Fu)
  25. Far Corner: Endangered (Cuneiform)
  26. National: Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
  27. Coh: Strings (Raster Norton)
  28. Nadja: Thaumogenesis (Archive)
  29. CocoRosie: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch & Go)
  30. Bad Statistics: Static (Kraak)
  31. Explosions In The Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)
  32. Okkervil River: The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
  33. Go Team: Proof Of Youth (Subpop)
  34. !!!: Myth Takes (Warp)
  35. Ocean Collective: Precambrian (Metal Blade)
  36. Expo 70: Animism (Kill Shamen)
  37. Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Behold Secret Kingdom (Release The Bats)
  38. Emeralds: Allegory Of Allergies (Weird Forest)
  39. Gnaw Their Tongues: Reeking Pained And Shuddering (Paradigms)
  40. Shugo Tokumaru: Exit (P-Vine)
  41. Pussygutt: Sea Of Sand (Olde English Spelling Bee)
  42. CJA: Pink Metal (PseudoArcana)
  43. Wildbirds & Peacedrums: Heartcore (Leaf)
  44. Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead (Celebrate Psi Phenomenon)
  45. Holy Fuck: LP (Young Turks)
  46. Marnie Stern: In Advance Of The Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
  47. Njiqahdda: Njimajikal Arts (Njiijn Arts)
  48. Aluk Todolo: Descension (Public Guilt)
  49. Baroness: Red Record (Relapse)
  50. Expo '70: Mystical Amplification (Kill Shaman)
  51. Taken By Trees: Open Field (Rough Trade)
  52. Grinderman: Grinderman (Anti)
  53. Yeasayer: All Hour Cymbals (Vital)
  54. Nihill: Krach (Monumentum)
  55. The-Dream: Love/Hate (Def Jam)
  56. Psychedelic Horseshit: Magic Flowers Droned (Siltbreeze)
  57. Yacht: I Believe in You Your Magic Is Real (Marriage)
Playlist
  1. Go Team: Doing it Right
  2. LCD Soundsystem: All My Friends
  3. Alcest: Printemps Emeraude
  4. Arcade Fire: Intervention
  5. St Vincent: Now Now
  6. Blues Control: Boiled Peanuts
  7. Patty Griffin: Getting Ready
  8. Eyesores: Blue on White
  9. Band Of Horses: Ode to LRC
  10. Go Team: Grip Like A Vice
  11. !!!: Must Be The Moon
  12. Deerhunter: Cryptograms
  13. White Magic: Song Of Solomon
  14. Caribou: Desiree
  15. Octopus Project: Truck
  16. A Place to Bury Strangers: Missing You
  17. Go Team: Universal Speech
  18. Ministry: Die In A Crash
  19. Caribou: Melody Day
  20. Holy Fuck: Lovely Allen
  21. White Stripes: You Don't Know What Love Is
  22. CocoRosie: Japan
  23. Health: Heaven
  24. Vocokesh: Once More Near the Beginning
  25. Arcade Fire: Antichrist Television Blues
  26. St Vincent: Jesus Saves I Spend
  27. Okkervil River: Our Life is Not a Movie or Maybe
  28. A Sunny Day In Glasgow: A Mundane Phonecall to Jack Parsons
  29. White Stripes: Rag & Bone
  30. Blonde Redhead: Top Ranking
  31. Arcade Fire: My Body Is A Cage
  32. Clientele: The Dance of Hours
  33. Octopus Project: Mmaj
  34. Patrick Wolf: Augustine
  35. Grinderman: Honey Bee
  36. Beirut: La Banlieu
  37. Jens Lekman: Shirin
  38. Alcest: Les Iris
  39. National: Slow Show
  40. Animal Collective: Unsolved Mysteries
  41. Andrew Bird: Scythian Empires
  42. Beirut: Cherbourg
  43. Liars: Freak Out
  44. Jens Lekman: Friday Night At The Drive-in Bingo
  45. Bug: Poison Dart
  46. Raccoo-Oo-Oon: Visage Of The Fox
  47. Tegan and Sara: The Con
  48. Wildbirds & Peacedrums: The Ones That Should Save Me
  49. Horrors: Excellent Choice
  50. The-Dream: Ditch That
  51. M.I.A.: Jimmy
  52. New Pornographers: All The Old Showstoppers
  53. Peste Noire: Amour Ne M'amoit Ne Je Li
  54. MGMT: 4th Dimensional Transition
  55. Bruce Springsteen: I'll Work For You Love
  56. Marnie Stern: Put All Your Eggs In One Basket
  57. Yacht: We're Always Waiting
  58. Nekrasov: Toward The Black Pain Of The Body's Core
  59. Taken By Trees: Julia
  60. M.I.A.: Paper Planes
  61. MGMT: Weekend Wars
  62. Likke Li: Little Bit
Extended tracks
  1. Panda Bear: Bros
  2. Light Of Shipwreck: I Swallowed And Am Swallowing The River Ganges
  3. Ahousen: Ophelia
  4. Dead C: Garage
  5. Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Psilocybin Flashback
  6. KTL: Theme
  7. Nadja: Thaumogenesis
  8. Suishou No Fune: Till We Meet Again
  9. Expo 70: Mahogany Lake
  10. Sir Richard Bishop: Smashana
  11. Supersilent: 6
  12. Light Of Shipwreck: I Watched And Am Watching A Cold Dead Sun Rise Then Explode
  13. LSD-march: Nikutai no Tubomi
  14. David Sylvian: When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima
  15. Acid Mothers Temple: Nam Myo Ho Ren Ge Kyo
  16. Far Corner: Endangered
  17. Birchville Cat Motel: Her Anger Is Limitless
  18. James Blackshaw: Stained Glass Windows
  19. Jasper TX: Some Things Broken Some Things Lost
  20. Aluk Todolo: Obedience
  21. Silvester Anfang: Zoetieboelie Astrobrol
  22. Sunroof: Slew Plateaus
  23. Of Montreal: The Past Is a Grotesque Animal
  24. Shellac: The End Of Radio
  25. Suishou No Fune: Prayer
  26. Bob Wiseman: Man of Misery
  27. Dungen: Mon Amour
  28. High Mountain Tempel: Drugsmeditationhypnosis
  29. Dalek: Abandoned Language
  30. Expo 70: Shape Shifting Mountain Mover
  31. Dan Deacon: Wham City
  32. Silvester Anfang: Konfituur Voor De Satanjeugd
  33. Mike Hansen: The Alarm Went Off Sooner Than Expected
  34. KTL: Paratrooper
  35. Explosions In The Sky: The Birth And Death Of The Day
  36. Silvester Anfang: Burned Alive At The Stake
  37. A Broken Consort: Something Fell
  38. Suishou No Fune: Resurrection Night
  39. Expo '70: Luminous Phenomena Reacting To The Precognition Of Psychokinesis
  40. Stars of the Lid: Even If You're Never Awake
  41. Vic Chesnutt: Debriefing
  42. Birchville Cat Motel: Birds Call Home Their Dead
  43. Suishou No Fune: A Midnight Ode - Like The Wind
  44. Akron Family: Lake Song
  45. Aluk Todolo: Disease
  46. High Mountain Tempel: Dispatch 23 from the Kali Yuga
  47. Arbouretum: The Rise
  48. Acid Mothers Temple: Electric Psilocybin Flashback
  49. Njiqahdda: Blue Wintry Days
  50. Wolves In The Throne Room: I Will Lay Down My Bones
  51. Emeralds: Mistakes
  52. Nihill: Gnosis
  53. Gregg Kowalsky: Psalm 118
  54. Alva Noto: Haliod Xerrox Copy 1
  55. Peter Wright: At Last New Dawn
  56. Mark McGuire: Along The Coral Reef
  57. Zs: Z Is For Zone
  58. Pussygutt: Pavour Nocturnus
Jazz
  1. Hilmar Jensson: Meg Nem Sa (Skirl)
  2. Agusti Martinez: Are Spirits What I Hear (Etude)

By genre:

Songwriters
  1. Andrew Bird: Armchair Apocrypha (Fat Possum)
Post-rock
  1. Battles: Mirrored (Warp)
Psychedelia
Electronica
Progressive
  1. Far Corner: Endangered (Cuneiform)
Punk/hardcore
Dance
Heavy rock
Instrumental
  1. Explosions In The Sky: All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone (Temporary Residence)

By country:

Britain
  1. Shit And Shine: Cunts With Roses (Noisestar Music)
Germany
Japan
Rest of Europe
Australia
Canada
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