Kyle's Blog: My 20 Favorite CDs of 2007

A lot of great music came out this year. Here are a couple lists of what I liked and didn't like this year.

Deerhunter - Cryptograms
The National - Boxer
A Place to Bury Strangers - A Place to Bury Strangers
Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
Battles - Mirrored
Carribou - Andorra
The Field - From Here We go to Sublime
Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew - Spirit If
Pela - Anytown Graffiti
The Twilight Sad - Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
!!! - Myth Takes
St. Vincent - Marry Me
Apparat - Walls
Panda Bear - Person Pitch
M.I.A. - Kala
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Peter, Bjorn and John - Writers Block
Rob Crow - Living Well
Pinback - Autumn of the Seraphs

Recent purchases that are on several end of year lists, in order of how much I think I might end up liking them.

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Beirut - The Flying Club Cup
Burial - Untrue
Holy Fuck - LP
Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
No Age - Wierdo Rippers
Los Campesinos! - Sticking Fingers into Sockets
Stars of the Lid - and Their Refinement of the Decline
Les Savy Fav - Let's Stay Friends
Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover
Arctic Monkeys - Favorite Worst Nightmare
Feist - The Reminder
Okkervil River - The Stage Names
Liars - Liars
Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
Nina Nastasia & Jim White - You Follow Me
Justice - t

Not as great as I'd hoped they'd be - This list is in order of how much I liked the CD compared to how much I thought I'd like it before I bought it. So if I was really excited about a CD and then it sucked it would be ranked at that top of the list. If it was a CD that some friends recommended and I bought it and didn't care for it, then I had lower expectations so it's ranked lower. In the case of Amon Tobin, it's a good CD but my expectations for him are completely unrealistic.