Hot Chip - Made In the Dark

Release Date: February 6, 2008

Expected beats and thumps and beeps and actually a section where they stop and tell you that the song will sound better on headphones. It would sound better if they weren't overrated.

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride

February 19, 2008

Blah. It's good. I don't care about this guy anymore though.

Cat Power - Jukebox

Release Date: January 22, 2008

Really monotonous. More of a showcase of her voice more than anything else, though I can listen to that for hours. Only thing outstanding is the one original song.

Black Mountain - In The Future

Release Date: January 22, 2008

Psychedelic prog rock to a tee. Lots of organ. Feels less ambitious than the s/t though. Still rockin.

The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust

Release Date: February 19, 2008

Sounds exactly like a Raveonettes album. I swear the melodies are even re-used. But it's still really good, like Chain Gang good and not that Pretty in Black shit.

Top Ten in 2007

1. Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
2. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
3. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Frog Eyes - Tears of the Valedictorian
6. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
7. Daft Punk - Alive 2007
8. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
9. Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
10. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour

Release Date: September 25, 2007

Sounds a little recycled.

Beirut - The Flying Club Cup

Release Date: October 9, 2007

More grand, majestic than Gulag, and pretty good. But by the end, it all kinda sounds the same. Needs a scenic world to mix it up a little.

The Fiery Furnaces - Widow City

Release Date: October 9, 2007

Favourite Fiery Furnaces album since Blueberry Boat. They kinda let loose, just like Blueberry Boat, and that's what I like. And man, the melodies plus Elenor's voice is fantastic shit.

The Go! Team - Proof of Youth

Release Date: September 11, 2007

Not much different from Thunder, Lightning, Strike. But who cares, it's still awesome!

Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover

Release Date: October 9, 2007

Just WOW. I'll be really surprised if this doesn't end up as my favourite album this year. Besides this one crazy space age song in the middle, every song is just incredible.

Okkervil River - The Stage Names

Release Date: August 7, 2007

It's alright. Kinda missing the emotion that I liked in the Black Sheep Boy series.

Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam

Release Date: September 11, 2007

I always liked Animal Collective albums, but I sometimes found them repetitive. This one keeps me interested all the way through. I think I'm starting to get it now.

Liars - Liars

Release Date: August 28, 2007

The opening song absolutely destroys me every time. There are about four other tracks that are great, and the rest is just that tribal chanting shit that I still can't deal with.

Tegan and Sara - The Con

Release Date: July 24, 2007

Shut up I like Tegan and Sara, I don't care what you think. Anyways, this has even more hooks and is even slicker than that last one.

Architecture In Helsinki - Places Like This

Release Date: August 7, 2007

What an abomination. Totally ditched their old style. I can't even tell what they were going for, but I know it sucks.

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga

Release Date: July 10, 2007

Although no song really stands out, they are all consistently great. Better than the couple-sweet-tracks-and-the-rest-sucks-balls methodology of Gimme Fiction.

Handsome Furs - Plague Park

Release Date: May 22, 2007

Surprisingly awesome.

Stars - Do You Trust Your Friends?

Release Date: May 22, 2007

It seriously sounds like each artist spent 12 seconds making their track. Like they took a cut of some work in progress or some old demo and then mixed Stars vocals over it. While drunk.

Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Release Date: May 15, 2007

Nels Cline wanks on his guitar during much of this album, which is a spectacle in a live setting, but boring as fuck on record.