2007 in music
i realize that is February already, but i wanted to do my music survey of 2007...
top 5 records of 2007
1. The Shins - "Wincing the Night Away" -
2. Modest Mouse - "We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank"
3. Tegan & Sara - "The Con"
4. The Ataris - "Welcome the Night"
5. Jimmy Eat World - "Chase This Light"
honorable mentions:
The Arcade Fire - "Neon Bible"
Against Me! - "New Wave"
Ben Folds - "Supersunnyspeedgraphic, the LP"
Explosions in the Sky - "All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone"
Spoon - "Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga"
Feist - "The Reminder"
Patton Oswalt - "Werewolves and Lollipops"
Bruce Springsteen - "Magic"
Band of Horses - "Cease to Begin"
Wilco - "Sky Blue Sky"
Rilo Kiley - "Under the Blacklight"
Johnathan Rice - "Further North"
Good Life - "Help Wanted Nights"
Hot Rod Circuit - "The Scene Is A Dying Breed"
Coconut Records - "Nighttiming"
dissappointments:
Bright Eyes - "Cassadega" (it has some okay songs on it...but i was expecting more)
Rilo Kiley - "Under the Blacklight" (yes, it's both an honorable mention and a dissappointment...i liked it, but it could have been better)
Say Anything - "In Defense of the Genre" (most of the songs on the first cd are pretty okay, but i still haven't made it through the second cd...i just wish they would have condensed it down to one solid album, rather than 2 mediocre albums)
Ryan Adams - "Easy Tiger" (i was expecting more)
Matt Pond PA - "Last Light" (not nearly as good as "Several Arrows Later")
albums that it's not that it's not good, it's okay...maybe i've just moved on, so it didn't really hit me like i hoped it would:
Motion City Soundtrack - "Even if it Kills Me"
Relient K - "Five Score and Seven Years Ago"
albums i want to/haven't gotten to listen to yet:
Stars - "In Our Bedroom After the War"
Sigur Ros - "Hvarf/Heim"
most anticipated in 2008:
David Bazan's Black Cloud - TBA
Death Cab For Cutie - "Narrow Stairs" (May)
She and Him (Zooey Deschanel & M. Ward) - "Volume 1"
Chris Walla - "Field Manual" (January):::i bought it, and it's really good if you enjoy DCFC.
Nada Surf - "Lucky" (February):::leaked, and I am enjoying it thusfar apart from i think one song
Conor Oberst - TBA
Conor Oberst/M. Ward's new band - TBA