. . . the City Paper, if it has not run its critics' lists yet, and to The Field, whose From Here We Go Sublime was worth brushing off the nonmandatory and totally arbitrary cap of ten selections—my top ten favorite albums from 2007 drum roll ba-dum-ching:
Battles, MirroredIt only goes to show how mercurial this process of assigning best-ofs is: For the list I submitted to CP I ranked the submissions, and looking at that ranking just now, I clearly didn't know what the hell I was talking about last week. So today they're in alphabetical order. And I haven't given that Panda Bear album a listen, but I think that maybe I don't like it. Look in the City Paper on Thursday for a year-end essay on District art galleries and so on.
Caribou, Andorra
Dan Deacon, Spiderman of the Rings
Deerhunter, Cryptograms
Dirty Projectors, Rise Above
Feist, The Reminder
Liars, Liars
Radiohead, In Rainbows
UGK, Underground Kingz
White Williams, Smoke
As for the Best Show in 2007 That I Barely Remember Attending, that has to be Raccoo-oo-oon, a band I like okay but loved that night. I'm pretty sure I bought one of every piece of merchandise they had to offer.
Posted by Kriston at December 18, 2007 3:48 PMI am baffled by all the love for the Liars album. [Quizzical look.]
Posted by: Peter Suderman at December 18, 2007 5:33 PMIt's good!
It goes without saying that Ween's La Cucaracha isn't on the list because I consider a Ween release to be an event on par with Haley's Comet or El Ni~o.
Posted by: Kriston at December 18, 2007 9:42 PM