2007, what a vintage year for underground music. The charts are finally dead alongside TV and the music scene across many genres once again delivered some incredible albums to fill the void.
What you read below was no 5 minute write up, there are so many releases that are sent to Crossfire for review every week and here are the ones that really got our staff writers’ blood running!
TOP 5 ALBUMS OF 2007:
Abjekt:
El-P
I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead
(Definitive Jux)
Doomtree
False Hopes
(Doomtree Records)
Justice
†
(Ed Banger)
Aesop Rock
None Shall Pass
(Definitive Jux)
Atmosphere
Sad Clown Bad Dub 9, 10, 11
(Rhymesayers Entertainment)
Dee Massey:
Jimmy Eat World
Chase This Light
(Interscope)
Ryan Adams
Easy Tiger
(Lost Highway)
Forever Like Red
Distance
(Echo)
Bloc Party
A Weekend in The City
(Wichita)
The Pigeon Detectives
Wait For Me
(Dancetotheradio)
Moose:
Manchester Orchestra
I’m Like a Virgin Losing a Child
(Sony/BMG)
www.themanchesterorchestra.com
Beirut
The Flying Club Cup
(Ba Da Bing)
Modest Mouse
We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
(Columbia)
Band Of Horses
Cease To Begin
(Sub Pop)
Caribou
Andorra
(Merge Records)
Zac Slack:
Les Favy Fav
Let’s Be Friends
(Wichita Records)
El-P
I’ll Sleep When You Are Dead
(Definitive Jux Records)
Imani Coppola
The Black and White Album
(Ipecac Records)
RJD2
The Third Hand
(XL Recordings)
Career Suicide
Attempted Suicide
(Deranged)
James Sherry:
Les Savy Fav
Let’s Stay Friends
(Wichita)
Jeffrey Lewis
13 Crass Songs
(Rough Trade)
Red Dons
Death To Idealism
(Deranged)
Big Business
Here Comes The Waterworks
(Hydra Head)
Career Suicide
Attempted Suicide
(Deranged)
Joe Moynihan:
Justice
†
(Ed Banger)
www.myspace.com/etjusticepourtous
Biffy Clyro
Puzzle
(14th Floor Records)
Daft Punk
Alive 2007
(Virgin)
Radiohead
In Rainbows
(Self-Released)
Arcade Fire
Neon Bible
(Rough Trade)
Alex Gosman:
Comeback Kid
Broadcasting…
(Victory)
Dinosaur Jr
Beyond
(PIAS)
The Flesh
Firetower
(Gern Blandsten)
The Hold Steady
Boys And Girls In America
(Full Time Hobby)
Poison The Well
Versions
(Ferret)
Ryan Bird:
Down
Down III: Over The Under
(Roadrunner)
Biffy Clyro
Puzzle
(14th Floor)
Avenged Sevenfold
Avenged Sevenfold
(Warner Bros)
Coheed & Cambria
No World For Tomorrow
(Columbia)
Dream Theater
Systematic Chaos
(Roadrunner)