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Another year, another smattering of good albums. There were plenty of shitty albums released this year, too, but you won’t find any of them here

In years past, I’ve written a thing or two about each album and how it left an impression on me. Due to the sheer volume of good music released this year, I have a longer list than usual and devoting a few sentences to each album would be too long for even the most avid reader. So instead I present to you a much-longer list of albums from 2007 that thoroughly impressed me. Of particular note is this year’s winner of my “Album of the Year” award going to The National’s Boxer. Enjoy!

A Place To Bury Strangers - A Place To Bury Strangers
Air - Pocket Symphony
Aqueduct - Or Give Me Death
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Band of Horses - Cease To Begin
Battles - Mirrored
The Besnard Lakes - …Are The Dark Horse
Black Francis - Bluefinger
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club - Baby 81
Bloc Party - A Weekend In The City
Broken Social Scene Presents: Kevin Drew - Spirit If
Caribou - Andorra
Crippled Black Phoenix - A Love of Shared Disasters
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
Do Make Say Think - You, You’re A History In Rust
Explosions In The Sky - All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
The Fields - Everything Last Winter
Film School - Hideout
Holy Fuck - LP
Idlewild - Make A New World
Interpol - Our Love To Admire
Jesu - Conqueror
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
Maps - We Can Create
Menomena - Friend And Foe
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
The National - Boxer
Neverending White Lights - Act 2: The Blood and the Life Eternal
The New Pornographers - Challengers
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
Queens Of The Stone Age - Era Vulgaris
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Sigur Rós - Hvarf/Heim
Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
The Twilight Sad - 14 Autumns and 15 Winters
Ulrich Schnauss - Goodbye
The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
Ween - La Cucaracha
The White Stripes - Icky Thump
Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
Yeasayer - All Hour Cymbals