My Top Records of 2007

I'm drunk and feeling lazy, and thus there will be no flashy graphics to excite you during this forthcoming list of my favourite records of 2007. A bumper year indeed, although isn't every year? People who say it's been a shit year (and there are some every year) just haven't been looking hard enough. Here's what you should have been listening to:

An unsorted top twenty:

A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers
Battles - Mirrored
Bjork - Volta
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
Electrelane- No Shouts No calls
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
Liars - Liars
Low - Drums And Guns
Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat
Maximo Park - Our Earthly Pleasures
The National - Boxer
New Lou Reeds - Moonshine 'n' Miracles
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
Oxbow - The Narcotic Story
Pissed Jeans - Hope For Men
Wooden Shjips - Wooden Shjips
Throbbing Gristle - Part 2: The Endless Not
Robert Wyatt - Comicopera

Wonderful runners up:

Apples In Stereo - New Magnetic Wonder
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Besnard Lakes - Are The Dark Horse
Burial - Untrue
Dinosaur Jr- Beyond
Earth - Hibernaculum
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion
Mekons - Natural
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
MV + EE and the Golden Road - Gettin' Gone
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Om - Pilgrimage
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Sunn O))) & Boris - Altar
Thurston Moore - Trees Outside The Academy
Trans Am - Sex Change
Various Artists - I'm Not There (original soundtrack)

And lest we forget...

Apartment - The Dreamer Evasive
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Black Lips - Good Bad Not Evil
Blonde Redhead - 23
Gui Boratto - Chromaphobia
Buck 65 - Situation
Dungen - Tio Bitar
Fiery Furnaces - Widow City
Forget Cassettes - Salt
Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck
Iron and Wine - The Shepherd's Dog
Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
Jetplane Landing - Backlash Cop
LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver
Meat Puppets - Rise To Your Knees
Ministry - The Last Sucker
Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II
No Age - Weirdo Rippers
PJ Harvey - White Chalk
Pony Up - Make Love To The Judges With Your Eyes
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus!
Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals