My favorite albums of 2007
10. Keren Ann- Keren Ann
Favorite Songs- In Your Back
Lyric- Come tell me your story to unload your glorious grief where you are the valet of honour and I am the thief.
9. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Favorite Songs- Fireworks
Lyric- Now it's day and I've been trying to get that taste off my tongue. I was dreaming of just you.
8. Radiohead- In Rainbows
Favorite Songs- Weird Fishes, Jigsaw Falling into Place
Lyric- In the deepest ocean, the bottom of the sea, your eyes, they turn me.
7. Spoon- Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga
Favorite Songs- Eddie's Ragga, My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
Lyric- It's hopeless I'm a slut for the New York Times.
6. Josh Ritter- The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Favorite Songs- Empty Hearts, The Temptation of Adam
Lyric- If this was a cold war we could keep each other warm.
5. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Favorite Songs- My Body is a Cage, Ocean of Noise
Lyric- You've got your reasons and me I've got mine. But all the reasons I gave were just lies to buy myself some time.
4. Iron and Wine- The Shepherd's Dog
Favorite Songs- Carousel, Boy with A Coin
Lyric- Like stubborn boys with big green eyes, we’ll see everything.
3. Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
Favorite Songs- No one's Gonna Love You, The General Specific
Lyric- It's looking like a limb torn off or altogether just taken apart. We're reeling through an endless fall. We are the ever-living ghost of what once was.
2. Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
Favorite Songs- Plastacities, Armchair
Lyric- I dreamed you were a cosmonaut of the space between our chairs and I was a cartographer of the tangles in your hair.
1. The National- The Boxer
Favorite Songs- Mistaken for Strangers, Ada
Lyric- You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under.
Honorable mentions: New Pornographers- Challengers, Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Okkervil River- The Stage Names, Jose Gonzalez- In Our Nature, Beck- The Information, Rufus Wainwright- Release the Stars, Kevin Drew- Spirit If, Shins- Wincing the Night Away, I'm Not There Original Soundtrack, Feist- the Reminder
Favorite Songs- In Your Back
Lyric- Come tell me your story to unload your glorious grief where you are the valet of honour and I am the thief.
9. Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam
Favorite Songs- Fireworks
Lyric- Now it's day and I've been trying to get that taste off my tongue. I was dreaming of just you.
8. Radiohead- In Rainbows
Favorite Songs- Weird Fishes, Jigsaw Falling into Place
Lyric- In the deepest ocean, the bottom of the sea, your eyes, they turn me.
7. Spoon- Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga
Favorite Songs- Eddie's Ragga, My Little Japanese Cigarette Case
Lyric- It's hopeless I'm a slut for the New York Times.
6. Josh Ritter- The Historical Conquests of Josh Ritter
Favorite Songs- Empty Hearts, The Temptation of Adam
Lyric- If this was a cold war we could keep each other warm.
5. Arcade Fire- Neon Bible
Favorite Songs- My Body is a Cage, Ocean of Noise
Lyric- You've got your reasons and me I've got mine. But all the reasons I gave were just lies to buy myself some time.
4. Iron and Wine- The Shepherd's Dog
Favorite Songs- Carousel, Boy with A Coin
Lyric- Like stubborn boys with big green eyes, we’ll see everything.
3. Band of Horses- Cease to Begin
Favorite Songs- No one's Gonna Love You, The General Specific
Lyric- It's looking like a limb torn off or altogether just taken apart. We're reeling through an endless fall. We are the ever-living ghost of what once was.
2. Andrew Bird- Armchair Apocrypha
Favorite Songs- Plastacities, Armchair
Lyric- I dreamed you were a cosmonaut of the space between our chairs and I was a cartographer of the tangles in your hair.
1. The National- The Boxer
Favorite Songs- Mistaken for Strangers, Ada
Lyric- You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery city bank lights arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under.
Honorable mentions: New Pornographers- Challengers, Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank, Okkervil River- The Stage Names, Jose Gonzalez- In Our Nature, Beck- The Information, Rufus Wainwright- Release the Stars, Kevin Drew- Spirit If, Shins- Wincing the Night Away, I'm Not There Original Soundtrack, Feist- the Reminder