2010 in Review

LPs

1. Deerhunter Halcyon Digest (4AD)
2. Robyn Body Talk (Konichiwa)
3. Beach House Teen Dream (Sub Pop)
4. Kanye West My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (Def Jam)
5. Best Coast Crazy For You (Mexican Summer)
6. Big Boi Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty (Def Jam)
7. Emeralds Does It Look Like I’m Here (Editions Mego)
8. The Drums The Drums (Moshi Moshi)
9. LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening (DFA)
10. Titus Andronicus The Monitor (XL)
11. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti Before Today (4AD)
12. Janelle Monae The ArchAndroid: Suites II and III (Bad Boy)
13. Arcade Fire The Suburbs (Merge)
14. The Tallest Man On Earth The Wild Hunt (Dead Oceans)
15. Male Bonding Nothing Hurts (Sub Pop)
16. The Radio Dept. Clinging To A Scheme (Labrador)
17. These New Puritans Hidden (Domino)
18. Owen Pallett Heartland (For Great Justice)
19. Wild Nothing Gemini (Captured Tracks)
20. Oneohtrix Point Never Returnal (Editions Mego)
21. The Walkmen Lisbon (Fat Possum)
22. Flying Lotus Cosmogramma (Warp)
23. Superchunk Majesty Shredding (Merge)
24. No Age Everything In Between (Sub Pop)
25. Caribou Swim (Merge)
26. Yeasayer Odd Blood (Secretly Canadian)
27. No Joy Ghost Blonde (Mexican Summer)
28. Vampire Weekend Contra (XL)
29. SALEM King Night (IAMSOUND)
30. The National High Violet (4AD)
31. Sleigh Bells Treats (Mom & Pop)
32. ceo White Magic (Sincerely Yours)
33. Jónsi Go (XL)
34. Wavves King Of The Beach (Fat Possum)
35. PS I Love You Meet Me At The Muster Station (Paper Bag)
36. Darkstar North (Hyperdub)
37. Liars Sisterworld (Mute)
38. Julian Lynch Mare (Olde English Spelling Bee)
39. Twin Shadow Forget (Terrible)
40. How To Dress Well Love Remains (Lefse)
41. Delorean Subiza (True Panther)
42. The-Dream Love King (Def Jam)
43. Mark McGuire Living With Yourself (Editions Mego)
44. Diamond Rings Special Affections (Secret City)
45. Grinderman Grinderman 2 (Anti-)
46. Trash Talk Eyes & Nine (Trash Talk Collective)
47. Crystal Castles Crystal Castles II (Last Gang)
48. Rick Ross Teflon Don (Def Jam)
49. Radio People Radio People (Digitalis)
50. The Fall Your Future, Our Clutter (Domino)
51. Big Troubles Worry (Olde English Spelling Bee)
52. Steve Mason Boys Outside (Double Six)
53. Lindstrom & Christabelle Real Life Is No Cool (Smalltown Supersound)
54. Earl Sweatshirt EARL (self-released)
55. Lonelady Nerve Up (Warp)
56. Javelin No Más (Luaka Bop)
57. Tamaryn The Waves (Mexican Summer)
58. Candy Claws Hidden Lands (Two Syllable)
59. Autre Ne Veut Autre Ne Veut (Olde English Spelling Bee)
60. Dum Dum Girls I Will Be (Sub Pop)



EPs

1. Games That We Can Play (Hippos in Tanks)
2. Zola Jesus Stridulum / Valusia (Sacred Bones)
3. Forest Swords Dagger Paths (Olde English Spelling Bee)
4. Dom Sun Bronzed Greek Gods (Burning Mill)
5. Twin Sister Color Your Life (Infinite Best)
6. Flight Flight / The Lead Riders (Kill Shaman)
7. James Blake CMYK (R&S)
8. Factory Floor Untitled (Blast First Petite)
9. Tennis Tennis (Sixteen Tambourines)
10. The Tallest Man On Earth Sometimes the Blues Is Just a Passing Bird (Dead Oceans)
11. Wild Nothing Golden Haze (Captured Tracks)
12. Real Estate Reality (Mexican Summer)
13. Spectrals A Spectrals Extended Play (Moshi Moshi)
14. Tanlines Settings (True Panther)
15. Memoryhouse The Years (Arcade Sound)



Reissues

1. Orange Juice …Coals to Newcastle (Domino)
2. Slowdive Blue Day (Creation)
3. Paul McCartney & Wings Band On the Run (Special Edition)(EMI)
4. Saint Etienne Tiger Bay / Finisterre / Good Humor /Tales From Turnpike House (Heavenly)
5. Neu! Box (Gronland)
6. Weezer Pinkerton (Deluxe Edition)(Geffen)
7. David Bowie Station to Station (Deluxe Edition)(EMI)
8. The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Now I Got Worry / Controversial Negro / Extra Width / Year One / Orange /Acme (Majordomo)
9. The Cure Disintegration (Deluxe Edition) (Rhino)
10. Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space: Collector’s Edition (ATP)
11. The Teardrop Explodes Kilimanjaro: Deluxe Edition (Universal)
12. Chin Chin Sound of the Westway (Slumberland)
13. Ride Nowhere (Rhino)
14. Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen / Love Bites / A Different Kind of Tension (Mute)
15. Black Tambourine Black Tambourine (Slumberland)



Tracks

1. Robyn “Dancing On My Own”
2. Janelle Monae feat. Big Boi “Tightrope”
3. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z “Power (Remix)”
4. Wild Nothing “Chinatown”
5. Kanye West feat. Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj and Rick Ross “Monster”
6. The Radio Dept. “Heaven’s On Fire”
7. Deerhunter “Helicopter”
8. Rick Ross feat. Styles P “B.M.F. (Blowin’ Money Fast)”
9. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Round and Round”
10. Big Boi feat. Cutty “Shutterbug”
11. Sleigh Bells “Rill Rill”
12. Kanye West feat. Pusha T “Runaway”
13. Katy Perry “Teenage Dream”
14. Robyn “Hang With Me”
15. Dom “Living In America”
16. Soulja Boy “Pretty Boy Swag”
17. Yeasayer “O.N.E.”
18. LCD Soundsystem “All I Want”
19. The Drums “Me & The Moon”
20. Aloe Blacc “I Need A Dollar”
21. M.I.A. “Born Free”
22. Arcade Fire “Ready To Start”
23. Best Coast “Something In The Way”
24. Games “Strawberry Skies”
25. Teengirl Fantasy “Cheaters”
26. Rihanna feat. Drake “What’s My Name”
27. Hot Chip “I Feel Better”
28. Vampire Weekend “Giving Up The Gun”
29. Museum of Bellas Artes “Watch the Glow”
30. Beach House “Walk In The Park”
31. Tennis “Marathon”
32. Titus Andronicus “A More Perfect Union”
33. Tanlines “Real Life”
34. Caribou “Odessa”
35. James Blake “CMYK”
36. Tokyo Police Club “Wait Up (Boots Of Danger)”
37. Real Estate “Out of Tune”
38. Cults “Go Outside”
39. Florence and the Machine “Dog Days Are Over”
40. Alicia Keys “Un-Thinkable”
41. Alphabeat “DJ”
42. Twin Sister “All Around and Away We Go”
43. Tame Impala “Solitude Is Bliss”
44. Wavves “Post Acid”
45. Jónsi “Go Do”
46. Veronica Falls “Beachy Head”
47. Japandroids “Younger Us”
48. Echo Lake “Everything is Real”
49. Panda Bear “You Can Count On Me”
50. The Russian Futurists “Hoeing Weeds, Sowing Seeds”
51. My Chemical Romance “Na Na Na”
52. Esben and the Witch “Marching Song”
53. Delorean “Stay Close”
54. Yuck “Rubber”
55. Ke$ha “Your Love Is My Drug”
56. Washed Out feat. Caroline Polachek “You and I”
57. Beach Fossils “Face It”
58. The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart “Heart In Your Heartbreak”
59. Rangers “Deerfield Village”
60. Crocodiles “Sleep Forever”

2009 in Review

My favourite albums, EPs, comps, reissues and tracks of the year.


Feel free to comment.




Albums

1. The xx: xx [Young Turks]
2. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion [Domino]
3. Phoenix: Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix [Glassnote]
4. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart: S/T [Slumberland]
5. Japandroids: Post-Nothing [Unfamiliar]
6. Girls: Album [True Panther Sounds]
7. The Horrors: Primary Colours [XL]
8. Yeah Yeah Yeahs: It’s Blitz! [Dress Up]
9. Taken By Trees: East of Eden [Rough Trade]
10. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest [Warp]
11. Atlas Sound: Logos [Kranky]
12. Cold Cave: Love Comes Close [Heartworm]
13. jj: no 2 [Sincerely Yours]
14. Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions [Southern Lord]
15. Nirvana: Live At Reading [Geffen]
16. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II [Ice H20]
17. The Very Best: Warm Heart of Africa [Green Owl]
18. Wild Beasts: Two Dancers [Domino]
19. Neon Indian: Psychic Chasms [Lefse]
20. Future Of The Left: Travels With Myself and Another [4AD]
21. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic [Warner Bros.]
22. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport [ATP]
23. Fever Ray: S/T [Mute]
24. The Smith Westerns: S/T [Hozac]
25. Memory Tapes: Seek Magic [Acephale]
26. Dirty Projectors: Bitte Orca [Domino]
27. HEALTH: Get Color [Lovepump United]
28. Vivian Girls: Everything Goes Wrong [In the Red]
29. Annie: Don’t Stop [Smalltown Supersound]
30. Woods: Songs of Shame [Woodsist]
31. Matt and Kim: Grand [Fader]
32. Cass McCombs: Catacombs [Domino]
33. Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications [Rough Trade]
34. Real Estate: S/T [Woodsist]
35. Death: …For The Whole Wide World To See [Drag City]
36. Washed Out: High Times [Mirror Universe]
37. Converge: Axe To Fall [Epitaph]
38. Wavves: Wavvves [Fat Possum]
39. Ganglians: Monster Head Room [Woodsist]
40. Neko Case: Middle Cyclone [Anti]
41. Think About Life: Family [Alien 8]
42. Bear In Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth [Hometapes]
43. Blank Dogs: Under and Under [In the Red]
44. Telepathe: Dance Mother [IAMSOUND]
45. A Sunny Day in Glasgow: Ashes Grammar [Mis Ojos Discos]
46. Zola Jesus: The Spoils [Sacred Bones]
47. Universal Studios Florida: Ocean Sunbirds [Little Furry Things]
48. Dâm-FunK: Toeachizown [Stones Throw]
49. Wolves In The Throne Room: Black Cascade [Southern Lord]
50. Manic Street Preachers: Journal For Plague Lovers [Columbia]

Honourable Mention: Saint Etienne: Foxbase Beta [Heavenly]




EPs

1. The Drums: Summertime! [Moshi Moshi]
2. Washed Out: Life of Leisure [Mexican Summer]
3. Best Coast: Where The Boys Are [Blackest Rainbow]
4. Animal Collective: Fall Be Kind [Domino]
5. No Age: Losing Feeling [Sub Pop]
6. Deerhunter: Rainwater Cassette Exchange [Kranky]
7. Zomby: One Foot Ahead of the Other [Ramp]
8. Dum Dum Girls: S/T [Captured Tracks]
9. Memory Cassette: Call & Response [Acephale]
10. Superchunk: Leaves in the Gutter [Merge]




Compilations

1. Various: Factory Records - Communications 1978 - 92 [Rhino]
2. The Vaselines: Enter the Vaselines [Sub Pop]
3. Various: Five Years of Hyperdub [Hyperdub]
4. Various: Fly Girls! B-Boys Beware: Revenge of the Super Female Rappers [Soul Jazz]
5. Daryl Hall & John Oates: Do What You Are, Be What You Want [Legacy]




Reissues

1. Saint Etienne: Foxbase Alpha/Continental/So Tough/Sound of Water [Heavenly]
2. Tom Tom Club: S/T + Close To The Bone [Island]
3. The Jesus Lizard: Head/Goat/Liar/Down [Touch and Go]
4. The Raincoats: S/T [Kill Rock Stars]
5. The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms/The Good Earth [Bar/None]




Tracks

1. Animal Collective “My Girls”
2. Phoenix “1901”
3. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart “Young Adult Friction”
4. Yeasayer “Ambling Alp”
5. Major Lazer feat. Ricky Blaze & Nina Sky “Keep It Goin’ Louder
6.” Animal Collective “Summertime Clothes”
7. Sleigh Bells “Crown On The Ground”
8. Phoenix “Lisztomania”
9. The Horrors “Sea Within A Sea”
10. Dirty Projectors “Stillness Is The Move”
11. Saint Etienne “The Method Of Modern Love”
12. Big Boi feat. Gucci Mane “Shine Blockas”
13. The Drums “Let’s Go Surfing”
14. Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti “Can’t Hear My Eyes”
15. Atlas Sound feat. Noah Lennox “Walkabout”
16. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Zero”
17. The Drums “I Felt Stupid”
18. The Smith Westerns “Be My Girl”
19. Washed Out “Feel It All Around”
20. Japandroids “Young Hearts Spark Fire”
21. Mini Viva “I Wish”
22. Yeah Yeah Yeahs “Heads Will Roll”
23. Girls Aloud “The Loving Kind”
24. Bat For Lashes “Daniel”
25. Miley Cyrus “Party In the USA”
26. Best Coast “Sun Was High [So Was I]”
27. The xx “Basic Space”
28. jj “ecstasy”
29. Grizzly Bear “Two Weeks”
30. Röyksopp feat. Robyn “The Girl and the Robot”
31. The Big Pink “Velvet”
32. Kelly Clarkson “My Life Would Suck Without You”
33. Drake “Best I Ever Had”
34. Zomby "Helter Skelter"
35. Girls “Lust For Life”
36. Basement Jaxx “Raindrops”
37. Javelin “Vibrationz”
38. Florence and the Machine feat. The xx “You’ve Got the Love” (Jamie xx rework)
39. Taylor Swift “You Belong With Me”
40. Miike Snow “Animal”
41. The Raveonettes “Last Dance”
42. Kanye West feat. Mr. Hudson “Paranoid”
43. Dum Dum Girls “Jail La La”
44. Joy Orbison "Hyph Mngo"
45. Hurts "Wonderful Life"
46. Beyoncé "Sweet Dreams"
47. Camera Obscura “French Navy”
48. Wild Nothing “Confirmation”
49. Annie “Anthonio”
50. Passion Pit “The Reeling”

Honourable Mention: Fucked Up “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”

2008 in Review

Here it is, yet another ridiculous set of lists.


Albums
1. Deerhunter Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. [Kranky]
1. Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair [DFA/Mute]
3. No Age Nouns [Sub Pop]
4. Cut Copy In Ghost Colours [Modular]
5. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes [Sub Pop]
6. She & Him Volume One [Merge]
7. Times New Viking Rip It Off [Matador]
8. Portishead Three [Polydor]
9. Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna [The Social Registry]
10. M83 Saturdays=Youth [Mute]
11. Zomby Where Were U in 92? [Werk]
12. Kanye West 808s & Heartbreak [Good Music/Roc-A-Fella]
13. Atlas Sound Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel [Kranky]
14. Jay Reatard Matador Singles ’08 [Matador]
15. Lykke Li Youth Novels [LL]
16. Titus Andronicus The Airing of Grievances [Troubleman Unlimited]
17. Wavves Wavves [Woodsist]
18. Abe Vigoda Skeleton [PPM]
19. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago [Jagjaguwar]
20. Spiritualized Songs in A&E [Spaceman/Universal]
21. Metronomy Nights Out [Because]
22. Empire of the Sun Walking On A Dream [EMI]
23. Vivian Girls Vivian Girls [Mauled By Tigers/In the Red]
24. Quiet Village Silent Movie [!K7]
25. Lil Wayne Tha Carter III [Cash Money]
26. Erykah Badu New Amerykah Pt. 1: 4th World War [Motown]
27. High Places High Places [Thrill Jockey]
28. The Bug London Zoo [Ninja Tune]
29. Lindstrøm Where You Go I Go Too [Smalltown Supersound]
30. The Ruby Suns Sea Lion [Sub Pop]
31. Genghis Tron Board Up the House [Relapse]
32. Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend [XL]
33. Girl Talk Feed the Animals [Illegal Art]
34. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! [Anti]
35. Benga Diary of An Afro Warrior [Tempa]
36. Girls Aloud Out of Control [Polydor]
37. The Hold Steady Stay Positive [Vagrant]
38. Fucked Up The Chemistry of Common Life [Matador]
39. Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are the Very Best Esau Mwamwaya & Radioclit Are the Very Best [mixtape]
40. Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing [ATP]
41. Love Is All A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night [What’s Yr Rupture?]
42. El Guincho Alegranza [Young Turks]
43. Late of the Pier Fantasy Black Channel [Parlophone]
44. Boris Smile [Southern Lord]
45. MGMT Oracular Spectacular [Columbia]
46. The Dodos Visiter [French Kiss]
47. Amadou & Mariam Welcome To Mali [Because]
48. Harlem free drugs;-) [Female Fantasy]
49. Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks Real Emotional Trash [Matador]
50. Born Ruffians Red Yellow and Blue [Warp]
51. Flying Lotus Los Angeles [Warp]
52. Harvey Milk Life...The Best Game In Town [Hydra Head]
53. TV On the Radio Dear Science [Interscope]
54. Marnie Stern This Is It And I Am It And You Are It And So Is That And He Is It And She Is It And It Is It And That Is That [Kill Rock Stars]
55. Black Mountain In the Future [Scratch/Jagjaguwar]
56. Caïna Temporary Antennae [Profound Lore]
57. Department of Eagles In Ear Park [4AD]
58. Crystal Stilts Alight of Night [Slumberland]
59. Atlas Sound Logos [unreleased]
60. Neon Neon Stainless Style [Lex]
61. Tokyo Police Club Elephant Shell [Mean Beard]
62. Women Women [Flemish Eye/Jagjaguwar]
63. Torche Meanderthal [Hydra Head]
64. Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane [Flemish Eye/Sub Pop]
65. Ponytail Ice Cream Spiritual [We Are Free]
66. Flight of the Conchords Flight of the Conchords [Sub Pop]
67. Solange Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams [Geffen]
68. Sigur Rós Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust [XL]
69. Nordpolen Pa Nordpolen [Sincerely Yours]
70. Sebastien Tellier Sexuality [Record Makers]
71. The Little Ones Morning Tide [Chop Shop]
72. School of Seven Bells Alpinisms [Ghostly]
73. Magnetic Fields Distortion [Nonesuch]
74. The Teenagers Reality Check [XL]
75. Eat Skull Sick To Death [Siltbreeze]


Tracks
1. Hercules & Love Affair "Blind"
2. Sam Sparro "Black & Gold"
3. Usher feat. Young Jeezy "Love In This Club"
4. Empire of the Sun "Walking On A Dream"
5. Estelle feat. Kanye West "American Boy"
6. Lykke Li "Little Bit"
7. Kanye West "Love Lockdown"
8. Little Boots "Stuck On Repeat"
9. Deerhunter "Vox Humana"
10. Girls Aloud "Untouchable"
11. Alphabeat "Fascination"
12. Erykah Badu "The Healer/Hip Hop"
13. Kings of Leon "Sex On Fire"
14. Lil Wayne "A Milli"
15. Cut Copy "Hearts On Fire"
16. The Tough Alliance "Neo Violence"
17. Britney Spears "Womanizer"
18. Neon Neon "I Lust U"
19. Primal Scream "Glory of Love"
20. Black Kids "I'm Not Gonna Teach Your Boyfriend How To Dance With You"
21. Mystery Jets "Two Doors Down"
22. Caribou "She's the One"
23. T.I. "Whatever You Like"
24. The Breeders "Night of Joy"
25. Coldplay "Viva La Vida"
26. Air France "Collapsing At Your Doorstep"
27. Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal"
28. Ladyhawke "Back of the Van"
29. The Big Pink "Too Young To Love"
30. Zomby "Mu5h"
31. M83 "Kim & Jessie"
32. Q-Tip "Gettin' Up"
33. Gonzales "Slow Down"
34. Salem "Dirt"
35. Deerhunter "Never Stops"
36. Hercules & Love Affair "Hercules' Theme"
37. Matt & Kim "Good Ol' Fashioned Nightmare"
38. Kanye West "Flashing Lights"
39. Music Go Music "Light of Love"
40. Lykke Li "I'm Good. I'm Gone"
41. Jonas Brothers "Burnin' Up"
42. MGMT "Kids"
43. Girls Aloud "The Promise"
44. Metronomy "Heartbreaker"
45. The Notwist "Boneless" [Panda Bear Remix]
46. The Coast "Nueva York"
47. Telepathe "Chrome's On It"
48. Young Jeezy feat. Kanye West "Put On"
49. The Radio Dept. "Freddie and the Trojan Horse"
50. Daniel Land & the Modern Painters "Within the Boundaries"
51. Cut Copy "Feel the Love"
52. Blaqstarr "Bang Hard"
53. The Verve "Judas"
54. She & Him "Why Do You Let Me Stay Here?"
55. Chairlift "Evident Utensil"
56. Ne-Yo "Closer"
57. Bloc Party "Better Than Heaven"
58. Spiritualized "Soul On Fire"
59. Kylie "Wow"
60. T.I. feat. Rihanna "Live Your Life"
61. Wavves "So Bored"
62. Beck "Gamma Ray"
63. The Kills "Last Day of Magic"
64. No Age "Sleeper Hold"
65. Le Corps Mince de Françoise "Ray-Ban Glasses"
66. TV On the Radio “Golden Age”
67. Glasvegas "Geraldine"
68. Girls "Morning Light"
69. Sugababes "Girls"
70. Born Ruffians "Little Garcon"
71. Terror Bird "Shame Is On Your Side"
72. Jesu "Why Are We Not Perfect?"
73. Charles Hamilton "Windows Media Player"
74. Pink Reason "Borrowed Time"
75. Annie "I Know UR Girlfriend Hates Me"


EPs
1. Air France No Way Down [Sincerely Yours]
2. Antony and the Johnsons Another World [Secretly Canadian]
3. Times New Viking Stay Awake [Matador]
4. Fleet Foxes Sun Giant [Sub Pop]
5. Crystal Antlers Crystal Antlers [Touch & Go]
6. Janelle Monae Metropolis: Suite I - The Chase [Wondaland]
7. Thieves Like Us Your Heart Feels [Seayou]
8. Belong Colorless Record [Carpark]
9. Passion Pit Chunk of Change [Frenchkiss]
10. The Cool Kids The Bake Sale [Chocolate Industries]


Reissues
1. Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue [Legacy]
2. New Order Movement/Lowlife/Brotherhood/Power, Corruption & Lies/Technique [Rhino]
3. Gas Nah und Fern [Kompakt]
4. The Replacements Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out the Trash/Stink/Hootenanny/Let It Be/Pleased To Meet Me/Tim/Don't Tell A Soul/All Shook Down [Rhino]
5. Ash 1977 [Rhino UK]
6. Rhys Chatham Guitar Trio Is My Life! [Table of Elements]
7. The Lemonheads It's A Shame About Ray [Rhino]
8. Van Duren Are You Serious? [Water]
9. Pavement Brighten the Corners: Nicene Creedence Ed. [Matador]
10. Nick Lowe Jesus of Cool [Yep Roc]


Compilations
1. Arthur Russell Love is Overtaking Me [Audika]
2. Saint Etienne London Conversations: The Best of Saint Etienne [Heavenly]
3. Various Motown: The Complete #1s [Motown/Universal]
4. Kid Creole Going Places: The August Darnell Years 1976-1983 [Strut]
5. The Jesus & Mary Chain The Power of Negative Thinking: B-Sides & Rarities [Rhino]
6. Glass Candy Deep Gems [Italians Do It Better]
7. Various BIPPP: French Synth Wave 1979 - 85 [Everloving]
8. Studio Yearbook 2 [Information]
9. King Khan & the Shrines The Supreme Genius of King Khan [Vice]
10. Various Steppa's Delight: Dubstep Present to Future [Soul Jazz]


Films
1. Let the Right One In (Tomas Alfredson)
2. Pineapple Express (David Gordon Green)
3. Wall-E (Andrew Stanton)
4. Slumdog Millionaire (Danny Boyle)
5. Tell No One (Guillaume Canet)
6. Inside (Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury)
7. Rachel Getting Married (Jonathan Demme)

2007 in Review

This here's a carefully calculated list of my favourite records of 2007 in their various categories.

Albums
01. Deerhunter Cryptograms (Kranky)
02. Jens Lekman Night Falls Over Kortedala (Secretly Canadian)
03. The National Boxer (Beggars Banquet)
04. Animal Collective Strawberry Jam (Domino)
05. Burial Untrue (Hyperdub)
06. LCD Soundsystem Sound of Silver (DFA)
07. M.I.A. Kala (XL)
08. The Field From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
09. No Age Weirdo Rippers (Fat Cat)
10. Panda Bear Person Pitch (Carpark)
11. The Tough Alliance New Chance (Sincerely Yours)
12. Justice † (Ed Banger)
13. Klaxons Myths of the Near Future (Rinse/Geffen)
14. Radiohead In Rainbows (Independent)
15. Battles Mirrored (Warp)
16. Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
17. Les Savy Fav Let's Stay Friends (Frenchkiss)
18. Studio West Side/Yearbook 1 (Information)
19. Liars Liars (Mute)
20. José Gonzàlez In Our Nature (Mute)
21. The Twilight Sad Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters (Fat Cat)
22. Ghostface Killah The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
23. Glass Candy B/E/A/T/B/O/X (Italians Do It Better)
24. Deerhoof Friend Opportunity (Kill Rock Stars)
25. Taken By Trees Open Field (Rough Trade)
26. Vampire Weekend “Blue CD-R” (Independent)
27. The Black Lips Good Bad Not Evil (Vice)
28. Shocking Pinks Shocking Pinks (DFA)
29. Caribou Andorra (Merge)
30. Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals (We Are Free)
31. Arcade Fire Neon Bible (Merge)
32. Chromatics Night Drive (Italians Do It Better)
33. Pissed Jeans Hope For Men (Sub Pop)
34. Sunset Rubdown Random Spirit Lover (Jagjaguwar)
35. Jay-Z American Gangster (Roc-A-Fella)
36. Beirut The Flying Club Cup (Ba Da Bing!)
37. Jesu Conqueror (Hydra Head)
38. Patrick Wolf The Magic Position (Loog)
39. Thieves Like Us Play Music For You (Kitsuné)
40. Dan Deacon Spiderman of the Rings (Carpark)
41. Feist The Reminder (Arts & Crafts)
42. New Young Pony Club Fantastic Playroom (Modular)
43. Rihanna Good Girl Gone Bad (Def Jam)
44. Gui Boratto Chromophobia (Kompakt)
45. Miracle Fortress Five Roses (Secret City)
46. Okkervil River The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)
47. A Sunny Day in Glasgow Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
48. Richard Hawley Lady's Bridge (Mute)
49. Lil Wayne Da Drought 3 (Young Money Entertainment)
50. Grinderman Grinderman (Anti)
51. Róisín Murphy Overpowered (Echo)
52. Robert Plant & Alison Krauss Raising Sand (Rounder)
53. A Place To Bury Strangers A Place To Bury Strangers (Killer Pimp)
54. Municipal Waste The Art of Partying (Earache)
55. Bloc Party A Weekend in the City (Vice)
56. Kathy Diamond Miss Diamond to You (Permanent Vacation)
57. Jamie T Panic Prevention (Virgin)
58. Of Montreal Oh Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
59. R. Kelly Double Up (Jive)
60. PJ Harvey White Chalk (Island)
61. Pantha Du Prince This Bliss (Dial)
62. Blonde Redhead 23 (4AD)
63. The Honeydrips Here Comes the Future (Sincerely Yours)
64. Marnie Stern In Advance of the Broken Arm (Kill Rock Stars)
65. Band of Horses Cease to Begin (Sub Pop)
66. Girls Aloud Tangled Up (Polydor)
67. The Sadies New Seasons (Outside)
68. Dog Day Night Group (Black Mountain)
69. The Rosebuds Night of the Furies (Merge)
70. Videohippos Unbeast the Leash (Monitor)
71. Tinariwen Aman Iman: Water is Life (World Village/Outside)
72. Phosphorescent Pride (Dead Oceans)
73. Melt-Banana Bambi's Dilemma (A-Zap)
74. Yelle Pop-Up (EMI France)
75. Les Amis Au Pakistan Espace Libidinal (Tir)


Tracks
01. Rihanna feat. Jay-Z “Umbrella”
02. The Teenagers “Homecoming”
03. Justice “D.A.N.C.E.”
04. Kleerup feat. Robyn “With Every Heartbeat”
05. Battles “Atlas”
06. LCD Soundsystem “All My Friends”
07. R. Kelly feat. T-Pain and T.I. “I'm A Flirt (Remix)”/“I’m A Flirt (Saul Mojica Remix)”
08. M.I.A. “Paper Planes”
09. Girls Aloud “Call the Shots”
10. UGK feat. OutKast “International Players Anthem”
11. Klaxons “It's Not Over Yet”
12. M.I.A. “Jimmy”
13. The Little Ones “Lovers Who Uncover”
14. R. Kelly “Real Talk”
15. Lil' Chris “We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off”
16. Thieves Like Us “Drugs In My Body”
17. Tokyo Police Club “Your English Is Good”
18. Lil Mama “Lip Gloss”
19. Glass Candy “Rolling Down the Hills (Demo)”
20. Los Campesinos! “You! Me! Dancing!”
21. Avril Lavigne feat. Lil Mama “Girlfriend (Remix)”
22. Animal Collective “Peacebone”
23. Kylie “2 Hearts”
24. Pleasure feat. Brett Anderson “Back to You”
25. The Embassy “Some Indulgence/Now That's What I Call Indulgence (by TTA)”
26. Radiohead “House of Cards”
27. Dan Deacon “The Crystal Cat”
28. Rihanna "Don't Stop the Music"
29. Justin Timberlake "What Goes Around.../... Comes Back Around"
30. Heartsrevolution “Choose Your Own Adventure (C.Y.O.A.)”
31. Feist “1234”
32. Jens Lekman “Friday Night at the Drive-In Bingo”
33. Deerhunter “Strange Lights”
34. Kate Nash "Foundations"
35. The Cribs “Men's Needs”
36. Kanye West feat. T-Pain “Good Life”
37. Miami Horror “Don't Be On Her”
38. Woodhands “I Can't See Straight”
39. Lil Wayne “Upgrade”
40. Kavinsky “Testarossa Autodrive”
41. Patrick Wolf “Accident & Emergency”
42. Foals “Hummer”
43. The Rosebuds “Cemetery Lawn”
44. Justin Timberlake “Lovestoned/I Think She Knows”
45. Ciara “Like A Boy”
46. Fucked Up “Year of the Pig”
47. Spoon “The Ghost of You Lingers”
48. Amerie “Gotta Work”
49. Glass Candy “Geto Boys”
50. My Chemical Romance “Teenagers”
51. Miranda Lambert “Famous In A Small Town”
52. Dragonette “I Get Around”
53. New Young Pony Club "The Bomb (The Teenagers Remix)”
54. Róisín Murphy “Let Me Know”
55. Matt & Kim “Yea Yeah (Flosstradamus Remix)”
56. Studio “West Side”
57. T-Pain "Buy U a Drank (Shawty Snappin)"
58. The Honeydrips “Fall From A Height (The Field Way)”
59. Chromatics “In the City”
60. Taken By Trees “Too Young”/“Taken Too Young By TTA”
61. Bjork “Earth Intruders”
62. Janelle Monae “Violent Stars Happy Hunting!”
63. Lo-Fi-Fnk “City (The Teenagers Remix)”
64. Sugababes “About You Now”
65. Paramore “Misery Business”
66. The Clik Clik “My Dunks”
67. Grosvenor “Nitemoves”
68. Against Me! “White People For Peace”
69. Late of the Pier “Bathroom Gurgle”
70. Pharoahe Monch “Body Baby”
71. 50 Cent “I Get Money”
72. Diddy feat. Keshia Cole “Last Night”
73. Timbaland feat. DOE, Keri Hilson and Sebastian “The Way I Are”
74. Natasha Bedingfield “I Wanna Have Your Babies”
75. The Rakes “We Danced Together”


EPs
01. Deerhunter Fluorescent Grey (Kranky)
02. V/A Four Songs By Arthur Russell (Rough Trade/Evil Evil)
03. The Black Kids Wizards of Ahhhs (Independent)
04. Los Campesinos! Sticking Fingers Into Sockets (Arts & Crafts)
05. Yeah Yeah Yeahs Is Is (Interscope)
06. Atlas Sound Altitude Sickness (deerhuntertheband.blogspot.com)
07. Kavinsky Teddy Boy (Ed Banger)
08. The Cool Kids Totally Flossed Out (Fools Gold)
09. Grizzly Bear Friend (Warp)
10. Jay Reatard Night of Broken Glass (In the Red)
11. Pink Reason Cleaning the Mirror (Siltbreeze)
12. Flight of the Conchords The Distant Future (Sub Pop)
13. Those Are the Dancing Days Those Are the Dancing Days (Wichita)
14. Air France On Trade Winds (Sincerely Yours)
15. Jesu Lifeline (Hydra Head)


Reissues
01. Joy Division Unknown Pleasures/Closer/Still (Rhino)
02. Sonic Youth Daydream Nation (Geffen)
03. Betty Davis Betty Davis/They Say I'm Different (Light In the Attic)
04. Seefeel Quique (Too Pure)
05. Neil Young Live at Massey Hall 1971 (Warner)
06. The Knife Silent Shout (Mute)
07. White Noise White Noise (Island)
08. The Traveling Wilburys Collection (Rhino)
09. Debris Static Disposal (Anopheles)
10. Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth & Collected Works (Domino)
11. Dinosaur L 24->24 Music (Sleeping Bag)
12. The Dragons BFI (Ninja Tune)
13. Prefab Sprout Steve McQueen (Legacy)
14. Sebadoh The Freed Man (Domino)
15. Fire Engines Hungry Beat (Acute)


Compilations
01. V/A After Dark (Italians Do It Better)
02. Daft Punk Alive 2007 (Virgin)
03. Shackleton/Appleblim Skull Disco - Soundboy Punishments (Rough Trade)
04. Dirty Sound System Dirty Space Disco (Tigersushi)
05. V/A Labrador 100: A Complete History of Popular Music (Labrador)
06. Warsaw Warsaw (MPG)
07. V/A Rumble in the Jungle (Soul Jazz)
08. Goblin The Fantastic Voyage of Goblin: The Sweet Sound of Hell (Cherry Red)
09. Shack Time Machine: The Best of Shack (Sour Mash)
10. Surkin Action Replay (Institubes)
11. V/A Milky Disco (Lo)
12. V/A Brazil 70: After Tropicalia - New Directions in Brazilian Music in the 1970s (Soul Jazz)
13. ESG A South Bronx Story, Vol. 2 (Soul Jazz)
14. Afghan Whigs Unbreakable (Rhino)
15. V/A Disco Deutschland Disco – Disco, Funk & Philly Anthems From Germany 1975-1980 (Marina)