Popular Favorites, 2007

I liked all of these this year, to varying degrees. I admit it's kind of a cop-out, but I hate to leave things out. I'll feature my favorites on the New Year's Eve show.

Artist	Album	Label
!!!	Myth Takes	Warp
A Sunny Day In Glasgow	Scribbel Mural Comic Journal	Notenuf
Airiel	The Battle of Sealand	High Wheel
Apples In Stereo	New Magnetic Wonder	Yep Roc
Architecture In Helsinki	Places Like This	Polyvinyl
Art Brut	It's A Bit Complicated	Downtown Music
Art In Manilla	Set The Woods On Fire	Saddle Creek
Birds of Avalon	Bazzar Bazzar	Volcom
Black Francis	Bluefinger	Cavity Search
Blonde Redhead	23	4AD
Caribou	Andorra	Merge
Clinic	Visitations	Domino
Deerhoof	Friend Opportunity	Kill Rock Stars/5RC
Dept. of Energy	Held By Waits	Roam
Dilletantes	101 Tamborines	Stranger Touch
DNTEL	Dumb Luck	Sub Pop
Elliot Smith	New Moon	Kill Rock Stars
Evaporators	Gassy Jack and Other Tales	Mint/Nardwuar
Fancey	Schmancey	What Are Records
Field Music	Tones of Town	Memphis Industries
Frog Eyes	Tears of the Valedictorian	Absolutely Kosher
Fucking Champs	VI	Drag City
Germans	Cape Fear	Arena Rock
Golden Dogs	Big Eye Little Eye	Yep Roc
Great Lakes Myth Society	Compass Rose Boquet	Quack Media
Half Acre Day	Fourteen Trips Around The Sun	Self
Hella	There's No 666 In Outer Space	Ipecac
Hey Lover	Hey Lover	Hovercraft/Breakfast Mascot
Illinois	What the Hell Do I Know	Ace-Fu
Immaculate Machine	Fables	Mint
Imperial Teen	The Hair the TV the Baby & the Band	Merge
Jason Anderson	Tonight	ECA
Jens Lekman	Night Falls Over Kortedala	Secretly Canadian
Kinski	Down Below It's Chaos	Sub Pop
Les Sans Culottes	Le Weekender	Vibratone
Les Savy Fav	Let's Stay Friends	French Kiss
Love Me Nots	In Black and White	Atomic A Go Go
Makes Nice	Candy Wrapper and Twelve Other Songs	Frenetic
Marnie Stern	In Advance of the Broken Arm	Kill Rock Stars
Menomena	Friend and Foe	Barsuk
Moros Eros	Jealous Me Was Killed By Curiousity	Victory
New Pornographers	Challengers	Matador
Numbers	Now You Are This	Kill Rock Stars
Of God and Science	Of God and Science	Detach
Of Montreal	Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?	Polyvinyl
Okkervil River	The Stage Names	Jagjaguwar
Pinback	Autumn of the Seraphs	Touch and Go
Polyethylene	What Goes On Inside Houses	Optomisitc
Polynya	Polynya	Childhood Pet
Reutschle	…Plays Exotic Destinations	Poptek
Robert Pollard	Coast to Coast Carpet of Love/Standard Gargoyle Decisions	Merge
Rosebuds	Night of the Furies	Merge
Sea and Cake	Everybody	Thrill Jockey
Shapes and Sizes	Split Lips, Winning Hips, A Shiner	Asthmatic Kitty
Shins	Wincing the Night Away	Sub Pop
Sloan	Never Hear the End of It	Yep Roc
Spoon	Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga	Merge
Stereo Total	Paris-Berlin	Kill Rock Stars
Trans Am	Sex Change	Thrill Jockey
Tulllycraft	Every Scene Needs A Center -	Magic Marker
Voxtrot	Voxtrot	Play Louder
Woggles	Rock and Roll Backlash	Wicked Cool
Zincs	Black Pompadour	Thrill Jockey