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1. The Reminder
The Reminder
~ Feist
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Cherry Tree
May 1, 2007
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Feist is the solo project of Canada's Leslie Feist, a prolific artist who has also played in one capacity or another with ... Read more

2. Sound of Silver
Sound of Silver
~ LCD Soundsystem
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Capitol
March 20, 2007
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Two years after LCD Soundsystem's eponymous full-length debut sent indie scenesters rushing to the dancefloor, the outfit headed by dance-rock producer James Murphy serves up another stiff cocktail of punk, dance, and funk with ... Read more

3. Graduation
Graduation
~ Kanye West
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September 11, 2007
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Kanye West's third in a whimsical trilogy of "scholarly" albums, ... Read more

4. In Rainbows
In Rainbows
~ Radiohead
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January 1, 2008
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On the deliriously satisfying In Rainbows, Radiohead returns to a more straight-ahead (though subdued) rock sound. Much hubbub has been made about this record's innovative release. Radiohead allowed fans to pay what they wished to download fairly low-resolution tracks from the band's own website. Like so many innovations, it ... Read more

5. Back to Black
Back to Black
~ Amy Winehouse
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Republic
March 13, 2007
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Amy Winehouse's second album, Back to Black, is one of the finest soul albums, British or otherwise, to come out for years. Frank, her first album, was a sparse and stripped-down affair; Back to Black, meanwhile, is neither of these things. This time around, she's taken her inspiration from ... Read more

6. Neon Bible
Neon Bible
~ Arcade Fire
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March 6, 2007
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For their second full-length, the Montreal-based seven-or-eight-piece Arcade Fire show themselves capable of Big Rock, as original, and as potentially marquee-topping as TV on the Radio and Sigur Ros. Regardless, the intentional murkiness of these pleasant... Read more

7. Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
~ Spoon
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Merge Records
July 10, 2007
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Something happened to Spoon between records five and six--they got big. It's not as if these unprepossessing Texans were unpopular before, but after ... Read more

8. New Moon
New Moon
~ Elliott Smith
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Kill Rock Stars
May 8, 2007
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When Elliott Smith died late in 2003, he took with him one of the unique songwriting gifts of his generation: part folk grandeur, part punk fury, and virtually bottomless in eight short years of solo recordings. Thankfully for that generation, and many to ... Read more

9. Wincing the Night Away
Wincing the Night Away
~ The Shins
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Sub Pop
January 23, 2007
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Indie-rock's hardest-working slackers finally release their third album, on which they've made the clear transition from bedroom-pop to stadium-rock without losing everything that makes them great. Those soaring vocals that sound like the unholiest collisi... Read more

10. Raising Sand
Raising Sand
~ Alison Krauss
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Rounder
October 23, 2007
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Perhaps only the fantasy duo of King Kong and Bambi could be a more bizarre pairing than Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Yet on ... Read more

11. Because of the Times
Because of the Times
~ Kings of Leon
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RCA
April 3, 2007
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Aha Shake Heartbreak may have blown open the doors of fame for Kings of Leon, but their third full-length album (named for a United Pentecostal Church ministers' conference) could well usher the Nashville foursome directly to rock and roll's zenith. There's hardly a change in plans for the three ... Read more

12. Easy Tiger
Easy Tiger
~ Ryan Adams
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Lost Highway
June 26, 2007
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Easy Tiger, Ryan Adams's ninth solo studio album, is a return to form in every way. He's already shown that he can bash out three albums in one year--not to mention the hilarious fake hip-hop records posted for free on his Web site--and that he can sound as much ... Read more

13. Alright, Still
Alright, Still
~ Lily Allen
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Capitol Records
January 30, 2007
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Being, as she is, the daughter of prominent British actor Keith Allen, the cynics could easily dismiss the rise of Lily Allen as an act of backroom nepotism, a talent-free starlet helped to the stage by the right connections. But one listen to her debut a... Read more

14. Kala
Kala
~ M.I.A.
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Interscope Records
August 21, 2007
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Maya Arulpragasam, the British-based daughter of Sri Lankan refugees, delivered one of 2005's eye-popping debuts, ... Read more

15. Boxer
Boxer
~ The National
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Beggars Banquet
May 22, 2007
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With Boxer, the National have reached four albums into their increasingly lauded career, never hurrying the tempo, never over-reaching in volume or instrumental density. Instead, the quintet's balanced on a pin, emotionally austere, if not utterly downhearted, finding brilliantly dusky ways for Matt Berninger's lovelorn voice to mesh with ... Read more

16. In Our Bedroom After the War
In Our Bedroom After the War
~ Stars
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Arts & Crafts
September 25, 2007
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Montreal's Stars are certainly a theatrical bunch (and not just because co-frontman Torquil Campbell is also an actor). Their passionate delivery of love and breakup songs--often sung dialogue-style between male frontman Campbell and female lead Amy Millan... Read more

17. Person Pitch
Person Pitch
~ Panda Bear
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Paw Tracks
April 9, 2007
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As a member of the acclaimed Animal Collective, Noah Lennox (a.k.a. Panda Bear) has for years been making music that mixes experimental structures with a pure '60s pop sensibility. On his second solo album of looped and layered experimental post-pop, he sh... Read more

18. Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace
~ Foo Fighters
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Rca
September 25, 2007
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In 1997, Foo Fighters teamed with alt-rock production cornerstone Gil Norton to make their best album, ... Read more

19. Writer's Block
Writer's Block
~ Peter Bjorn and John
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Almost Gold
March 6, 2007
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As fine an album as this might be (and indeed it is), it serves a much higher purpose for which it must be immediately recognised. The twee Swedish trio have single-handedly tugged whistling out of popular music's pits where it was stuffed by German soft m... Read more

20. Sky Blue Sky
Sky Blue Sky
~ Wilco
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Nonesuch
May 15, 2007
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After their wild experimental streak of the past decade, Wilco's sixth studio album might feel like a bit of a comedown. ... Read more

21. The Magic Position
The Magic Position
~ Patrick Wolf
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4.6
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Fontana Universal
May 1, 2007
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Standing at 6 feet 4" tall with a shock of bright red hair, 23 year old Patrick Wolf is something of a statement even before he opens his mouth. His two albums to date--2003's ... Read more

22. Finding Forever
Finding Forever
~ Common
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July 31, 2007
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It's no small feat to follow an instant classic like Common's ... Read more

23. 100 Days, 100 Nights
100 Days, 100 Nights
~ Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings
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Daptone
October 2, 2007
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In the new millennium, soul has become big business again. But despite succulent re-issues from labels like Astralwerks and Light in the Attic, the resurgence of seasoned soul sisters like Bettye LaVette, and the volcanic popularity of new-soul crooners li... Read more

24. A Weekend in the City
A Weekend in the City
~ Bloc Party
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Vice Records
February 6, 2007
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Bloc Party may have arrived in an outbreak of like-minded British bands set upon shooting holes in the Union Jack while knocking out a sharp post-punk soundtrack, but it didn't take long for the foursome to set itself apart from the pack. Fronted by Nigeri... Read more

25. 23
23
~ Blonde Redhead
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4ad / Ada
April 10, 2007
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As if getting a spread in a popular home décor magazine just a month prior to this album's release wasn't enough of a tipoff, Blonde Redhead have come a long way since their days of mimicking Sonic Youth's brittle art-rock. Clanging guitars have been replaced by warm synthesizers and ... Read more

26. Those the Brokes
Those the Brokes
~ The Magic Numbers
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3.4
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Astralwerks
July 17, 2007
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The second album from the Magic Numbers, Those the Brokes, finds this hirsute UK foursome-–comprised of two brother/sister pairs, Michele and Romeo Stodart with Angela and Sean Gannon--expanding on the florid, harmonic pop vision showcased on their Mercury Music Prize-nominated 2005 debut. Importantly, it doesn't just mimic that album's ... Read more

27. Under the Blacklight
Under the Blacklight
~ Rilo Kiley
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Warner Bros.
August 21, 2007
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Since her band's last record (2004's More Adventurous), Rilo Kiley frontwoman Jenny Lewis has taken her one-time child-actress, pop-star status up a level, as her charismatic solo effort, Rabbit Fur Coat, was one of the top recordings of 2006. But those who feared she'd abandon her long-time mates to ... Read more

28. Cassadaga
Cassadaga
~ Bright Eyes
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4.2
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Saddle Creek
April 10, 2007
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On their sixth and most straightforwardly clean album, Nebraska's Bright Eyes once again integrate a revolving cast of players to the mix, including Portland tunesmith M. Ward and alt-country queen Gillian Welch. But the band remains at the helm of forever... Read more

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