It's a slow grower for me, but it's weaseled its way into my top ten so far. It could even get higher by the end of the year.

A new Goon Moon. Any chance of hooking me up for a trial.

My top twenty (nobody asked, I know)

1. Okkervil River – The Stage Names (4.15)
2. Stars – In Our Bedroom After The War (4.03)
3. Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse (3.93)
4. Josh Ritter – The Historical Conquest Of Josh Ritter (3.92)
5. The National - Boxer (3.90)
6. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah! – Some Loud Thunder (3.89)
7. Spoon – Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (3.88)
8. Menomena – Friend Or Foe (3.88)
9. Dizzee Rascal – Maths And English (3.87)
10. Handsome Furs – Plague Park (3.87)
11. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha (3.86)
12. Blonde Redhead – 23 (3.85)
13. Lucky Soul - Great Unwanted (3.84)
14. Bishop Allen – The Broken String (3.83)
15. My Teenage Stride - Ears Like Golden Bats (3.82)
16. Of Montreal – Hissing Fauna… (3.80)
17. The Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (3.78)
18. Deerhoof – Friend Opportunity (3.74)
19. The Noisettes – What’s The Time Mr. Wolf? (3.74)
20. LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (3.69)

Hey, Huskerpunk, could you suggest a Sage Francis tune to check out off his latest? Thanks!

Haven't bought anything for awhile. All my money's going to fund global terrorism.

exactly right on this. what a huge let down.

Where's the Digitalism album? I thought you were really into that one.

Martin Newell - A Summer Tamarind

Yeah, you all saw this one coming.

oh, i am but this was off the top of my head this am. i also missed Feist.

Wait...prodigy has a new album out this year? When's it come out?

buy it immediately. You'll love it.

bit of a different direction thatn the last few though huh

only in dalens world could you diss neil young and pharoahe monch and then go on and list bloc party and the cribs

That QOTSA record has slowly crept into my Top 5.

Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha is great too.

Completely agree.

I'm a-gonna throw that Panda Bear on the pile of favorites for '07. Person Pitch and Boxer are the only two releases that consistently deliver for me and have stood the test o' time. The new John Doe, Interpol, and Isbell discs are damn fine, but it's too early to gauge lasting power for any of 'em.

In what's become a 2007 trend for me, I LOVE half of this record. Opening track sometimes gets played 2 or 3 times in a row, especially when I'm riding.

not to mention interpol. seriously puzzles the shit out of me that this could be on anyone's best of anything list. i know i've said it a thousand times, but you seriously have to be able to find better things to listen to than fucking interpol.

pharoahe monch - desire

is really great.

off the top of my head i would include that and

liars
deerhoof
blonde redhead
marissa nadler
begushkin
mv/ee
alcest
ex-cocaine

I have this problem with a lot of newer albums--I blame albums being too long and Pro Tools for making it too easy to record an idea into a completed song. Either practice self editing, hire a better producer, limit yourself to the length of an LP, or just release EP's. Something.

future of the left, you fucks.

oh man

both are true poets

both like drugs and misogyny

but then again, who doesn't

Love:
Spoon
Deerhunter
National
Panda Bear

Love a few songs, but not the whole record:
Menomena
Field
Adam Franklin
Animal Collective
Shellac
Battles
Wilco
Deerhoof
Blonde Redhead
LCD
Air

Not enough time:
Jens Lekman
LSF
Angels of Light

Disappointed/Eh:
New Porn
Fiery Furnaces
Interpol
Apparat
Bees
Common
Akron