Staff Picks - Best of 2007
Adam
The Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound: Ekranoplan
Circle: Sunrise
The Psychic Paramount: Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural The Fucking Champs: IV
Mammatus: The Coast Explodes
Earthless: Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky
Titan: A Raining Sun Of Light And Love, For You And You And You
MV & EE: Gettin Gone
Meg Baird: Dear Companion
Dungen: Tio Bitar
Anna
1. Vic Chesnutt: North Star Deserter
2. Jens Lekman: Night Falls Over Kortedala
3. Caribou: Andorra
4. White Stripes: Icky Thump
5. Of Montreal:Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?
6. Dinosaur Jr: Beyond
7. Prints: Prints
8. Battles: Mirrored
9. Slaraffenland: Private Cinema
10. David Vandervelde: The Moonstation House Band
Grant
1. Menomena: Friend & Foe (Barsuk)
2. Panda Bear: Person Pitch (Paw Tracks)
3. Loney, Dear: Loney Noir (Sub Pop)
4. John Vanderslice: Emerald City (Barsuk)
5. Neil Young: Live at Massy Hall (Reprise)
6. Paul Duncan: Above The Trees (Hometapes)
7. Nathaniel Mayer: Anthology (Vampi Soul)
8. The Dynamics: First Landing (Hacktone)
9. Spoon: Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge)
10. Pylon: Gyrate Plus (DFA)
James
Magik Markers: Boss (Ecstatic Peace)
Field Music: Tones of Town (Memphis Industries)
Lily Allen: Alright, Still (Capitol)
The Clientele: God Save the Clientele (Merge)
Hot Chip: DJ Kicks (!K7)
Peter Bjorn and John: Writers’s Block (Almost Gold)
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)
Caribou: Andorra (Merge)
Datarock: Datarock Datarock (Yap)
Battles: Mirrored (Warp)
Loney, Dear: Loney Noir (Sub Pop)
Tom Brosseau: Grand Forks, Michigan (Fat Cat)
v/a: Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation (Numero Group)
v/a: Mexican Boleros (Trikont)
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
David Vandervelde: The Moonstation House Band (Secretly Canadian)
Morgane
1. Devendra Banhart: Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon
2. Justice: Cross
3. Luke Vibert: Chicago,Detroit, Redruth
4. Bill Callahan: Woke on a Whaleheart
5. Roy Wood: Boulders
6. James Chance and the Contortions: Soul Exorcism Redux
7. Bruce Haack: The Electric Lucifer
8. Os Mutantes: Live Barbican Theater, London 2006
9. The Fiery Furnaces: Widow City
10. Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
Steve
Kronos Quartet: Henryk Górecki: String Quartet No. 3 (Nonesuch)
Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings: 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone)
Bjork: Volta (Warner Bros.)
Old Time Relijun: Catharsis in Crisis (K)
Matthew Shipp: Piano Vortex (Thirsty Ear Blue Series)
Love of Diagrams: Mosaic (Matador)
Arcade Fire: Neon Bible (Merge)
Cocorosie: The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go)
Sally Shapiro: Disco Romance (Paper Bag)
Melt-Banana: Bambi’s Dilemma (Azap)
Steve’s Top Ten reissues and historical releases
The Four Mints: Gently Down Your Stream (Propinquity)
Moloch: Moloch (Fallout)
Andrew Hill: Compulsion (Blue Note)
The Soul Searchers: Blow Your Whistle (Vampi Soul)
Terry Riley: Les Yeux Fermes/Lifespan (Elision Fields)
Neil Young: Live at Massey Hall 1971 (Reprise)
Eccentric Soul: Twinight’s Lunar Rotation (Numero)
Bruce Haack: The Electric Lucifer (Omni)
Vashti Bunyan: Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind (DiCristina)
Pylon: Gyrate Plus (DFA)
Tammy
Old Time Relijun: Catharsis In Crisis
Dirty Projectors: Rise Above
White Rabbits: Fort Nightly
Of Montreal: Hissing Fauna Are You the Destroyer?
Citay: Little Kingdom
Octopus Project: Hello Avalanche
The Bird And The Bee: The Bird And The Bee
Amiina: Kurr
Tammy’s Reissues:
Pylon: Gyrate Plus
Bruce Haack: The Electric Lucifer
Tammy’s Compilations:
Various Artists: Eccentric Soul 17: Child Soul Singers
Various Artists: Tropicalia
Tammy’s Honorable Mentions:
Sun Ra Friday’s (all sun ra, all day!)
Staff Picks - Best of 2006
Adam
Mighty Baby: A Jug Of Love
Dead Meadow: Dead Meadow
Comets On Fire: Avatar
Six Organs of Admittance: The Sun Awakens
Achim Reichel: Echo/IV
Daniel Higgs: Interdimensonal Song-Seamstress
Harvester: Ain Schvajn Draj
Kawabata Makoto & The Mothers Of Invasion: Hot Rattlesnakes
Psychic Ills: Early Violence
Psychic Ills: Dins
Anna
Danielson: Ships
Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
Frida Hyvonen: Until Death Comes
Blood Feathers: Curse & Praise
Joanna Newsom: Ys
Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
Miss Violetta Beauregarde: Odi Profanum Vulgus Et Arceo
Adem: Love And Other Planets
Capitol Years: Dance Away The Terror
Mastodon: Blood Mountain
Carey
Black Angels: Passover
Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
The Blow: Paper Television
The Pipettes: We Are the Pipettes
The King Khan & BBQ Show: What’s for Dinner
Peter Bjorn and John: Writer’s Bloc
Love is All: Nine Time That Same Song
Comets On Fire Avatar
Dinosaur Jr.: J Mascis Live at CBGB’s
Frida Hyvonen: Until Death Comes
Grant
Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Live at the Filmore 1970
Black Angels: Passover
Viva Voce: Get Yr Blood Sucked Out
Mountain Goats: Get Lonely
J. Tillman: Minor Works
Hot Chip: The Warning
Yo La Tengo: I Am Not Afraid of You …
Asobi Seksu: Citrus
So Many Dynamos: Flashlights
James
This Heat: Out of Cold Storage
Ornette Coleman: Sound Grammar
Beirut: Gulag Orkestar
Handsome Family: The Last Days of Wonder
Citay: Citay
B. Fleischmann: Humbucking Coil
Sonic Youth: Rather Ripped
Destroyer: Destroyer’s Rubies
Sparks: Hello Young Lovers
The Knife: Silent Shout
Et Ret:Gasworks
Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Live at the Filmore 1970
Honorable Mention:
Evangelicals: So Gone, Essex Green: Cannibal Sea, James Blackshaw: O True Believers, The Thermals: The Body, The Blood, the Machine, Daniel Higgs: Interdimensional Song-Seamstress
Steve
Asobi Seksu: Citrus
Matthew Shipp: One
James Blackshaw: O True Believers
Espers: II
Jenny Lin: The Eleventh Finger
Richard Buckner: Meadow
Jennifer O’Connor: Over the Mountain…
Paul Flaherty: Whirl of Nothingness
Ray Lamontagne: Till the Sun Turns Black
Odyssey the Band: Back in Time
Metallic Falcons: Desert Doughnuts
Akron/Family: Meek Warrior
Andrew Hill: Time Lines
Tom Ze: Estudando o Pagode
Plus Reissues:
Rahsaan Roland Kirk: Brotherman in the Fatherland, Rufus Harley: Re-Creation of the Gods, Khan Jamal Creative Arts Ensemble: Drumdance to the Motherland, Achim Reichel: Echo/A.R. IV, Charles Mingus: At UCLA 1965, The Glove: Blue Sunshine, V/A: Big Apple Rappin’, Dave Van Ronk: Going Back to Brooklyn
