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What’s up boys and girls, this year I’m a little bit faster in compiling the best of list (although still one of the last to do so according to Largehearted Boy’s best of lists compilation.)

2007 was very very lucrative for new music and even a top 50 list isn’t enough to cover the noteworthy albums. I’ll publish the top 50 list now and gradually go through them in the coming days with an mp3 for every album, till the end of this year.

As always my subjective rating algorithm is mostly based on inventiveness with respect to other artists & bands + personal taste. I’ve listened to a lot of experimental & improv stuff as well, but as I look back they are mostly not distinctive or well-formed enough to end in a top 50 list, but that doesn’t make them any less good! Anyways please bear with us through the uploading process !

50 Taxi Taxi - Maps and Legends
49 Odd Nosdam - Level level wires
48 Arve Henriksen - Strjon
47 The Focus Group - We’re all pans people
46 Elegi - Sistereis
45 Roam the Hello Clouds - Near Misses
44 Eric Malmberg - Verklighet och beat
43 Vikter Duplaix - Bold and Beautiful
42 Les Savy Fav - Let’s stay Friends
41 Pjusk - Sart
40 Marbert Rocel - Speed Emotions
39 Adjagas - Adjagas
38 Wahoo - Take It Personal
37 The Berg Sans Nipple - Along the Quai
36 Tied and Tickled Trio - Aelita
35 Waldeck - Ballroom Stories
34 Radio Luxembourg - Diwrnod Efo’r Anifeiliaid
33 Old Time Relijun - Catharsis in Crisis
32 Golden Arm Trio - The Tick-Tock Club
31 Feist - The Reminder
30 Fanga - Natural Juice
29 Kidkanevil - Problems and Solutions
28 Marc Ribot - Asmodeus Book of Angels 7
27 Metropolitan Jazz Affair - Bird of Spring
26 Punkt - Crime Scenes
25 Ahleuchatistas - Even in the Midst…
24 Thilges - La Double Absence
23 Kerkko Koskinen - Agatha
22 DuOud & Abdulatif Yagoub - Sakat
21 Grails - Burning off Impurities
20 Artanker Convoy - Cozy Endings
19 Death Ambient - Drunken Forest
18 Serafina Steer - Cheap Demo Bad Science
17 Rahsaan Patterson - Wines and Spirits
16 Lukid - Onandon
15 Battles - Mirrored
14 Deejay OM - Reheated Naan and Curry
13 Ólöf Arnalds - Við og við
12 White Magic - Dark Stars
11 Alamaailman Vasarat - Maahan
10 Luke Temple - Snowbeast
09 Nostalgia 77 - Everything Under the Sun
08 Shellac - Excellent Italian Greyhound
07 Men-an-Tol - Men-an-Tol
06 Fedayi Pacha - The 99 Names of Dub
05 A Hawk and a Hacksaw and the Hun Hangár Ensemble - Self Titled
04 High on Fire - Death Is This Communion
03 Upsilon Acrux - Galapagos Momentum
02 Marnie Stern - In Advance of the Broken Arm
01 Future of the Left - Curses

Let’s hope all on these list last as long as this Yusef Lateef piece from 1961 or the Young Marble Giants one from 1980.

Yusef Lateef - Chinq Miau
Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix