Week in week out, the vast conveyor belt that is the music industry pukes out a relentless flow of hideous banalities and hidden gems. This time of the year provides, for list enthusiasts at least, a perfect opportunity to pause for a moment, look back at the year gone and take stock of what has been ingurgitated, processed and digested, or not as the case may be, and try to condense this into an easily. Although indubitably flawed, as, after all, the said list is no more than a snapshot of a moment in time, and may bare little or no relation to a similar exercise conducted some time in the future. Some records require time to make sense while others loose all meaning taken out of their original context. 2007 has been a rather fertile season for some labels (Leaf, Bedroom Community) while others have found themselves on slightly less opulent grounds for a while. This is therefore just a glance at some of the richest sediment the past year has left behind.

1.

EFTERKLANG
Parades
The Leaf Label

2.

BURIAL
Untrue
Hyperdub

3.

MURCOF
Cosmos
The Leaf Label

4.

ARVE HENRIKSEN
Strjon
Rune Grammofon

5.

VALGEIR SIGURĐSSON
Eqvílibríum
Bedroom Community

6.

DISRUPT
Foundation Bit
Werk Discs

7.

MÚM
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy
Fat-Cat Records

8.

COLLEEN
Les Ondes Silencieuses
The Leaf Label

9.

SUPERSILENT
8
Rune Grammofon

10.

PANDA BEAR
Person Pitch
Paw Tracks

11.

310
Sixes And Sevens
Conduit Records

 

12.

ALOG
Amateur
Rune Grammofon

13.

RAFAEL ANTON IRISARRI
Daydreaming
Miasmah Records

14.

COPPÉ
Fi-lamenté
Mango & Sweet Rice

15.

THE MARCIA BLAINE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS
Halfway Into The Woods
Highpoint Lowlife

16.

BEN FROST
Theory Of Machines
Bedroom Community

17.

ÓLAFUR ARNALDS
Eulogy For Evolution
Erased Tapes

18.

COCOROSIE
The Adventures Of Ghosthorse & Stillborn
Touch & Go

19.

CALIKA
Seedling Mother
Audiobulb Records

 

20.

ICARUS
Sylt
Rump Recordings

THE 2007 REVIEW

David Abravanel
Eleventh Volume
Joe Muggs
Max Schaefer

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