The Best Records of 2007 That You Ignored

A quick blog to fufil my occasional blogging quota. I hope to do this a lot more often pretty soon. Basically: I've had a few major disasters this year, the most critical being the malfunction of my precious 350GB external hardrive, with pretty much everything I've ever written or taken a photo of trapped inside, inaccessible to anyone but a group of people who can get the poor blighters out for the price of around £400 - £800. Also ensconsed within is every shard of the 120 GB of music I had stored on there. As a result I've had to get the hard copies out and start burning them back to my PC. However, while doing this, I've realised just how many amazing records were released this year and how little attention I've given them all. It's been a tough year to hear everything I've wanted to and it's only now that I'm forced to listen to snippets as they replicate themselves onto the internal storage device inside this renegade computer that I've missed out on some astonishing listening. So have you lot. Don't lie. I know you have. So a quick sentence about each...so far.

!!! -Myth Takes
Funk that actually rocks, !!!'s third record is a loose, passionate, vibrant record.

Emmure - Goodbye To The Gallows
While everyone was pissing themselves over a band me and my cohorts were talking about last October, Emmure came out with the heaviest album I've heard all year. Aggressive and peerless.

Dog Day - Night Group
A review appears somewhere early on in my blogging exploits. It's not gonna change the world but it will certainly remind it how much power the Pixies wielded in 1989.

Tiger Force - A Wasp In A Jar
About ten minutes long. Eight tracks. Fun in extremely small doses. Excellent.

Apostle of Hustle - National Anthem of Nowhere
I haven't even listened past track 2 and it's already turning out to be one of my favourite records this year.

65DaysofStatic - The Destruction Of Small Ideas
Glitching, distorted post rock that sounds as clinical as it does destructive.

Explosions In The Sky - Suddenly, I Miss Everyone
OK so no one forgot this, especially as they're curating ATP next year, but just for The Birth And Death of the Day, this deserves t be forgotten, then rediscovered each time you listen to it.

Desperado - Thugs
Hardcore Refused style - and it's as brutal as it is melodic

The Narrator - All That To The Wall
I know nothing about this apart from it's hyperactive and brilliant

Prinzhorn Dance School - S/T
No one talked about this band despite it being on DFA. It's minimalist, mornic and intense. I love it.

Cutting Pink With Knives - Populuxxe
Maybe you didn't even know about it. Possible the most invigorating record this year.


There's so many more. Also, look out for a lovely blog entitled Bands You Should Avoid In 2008.
Hurridly signing out. Brad....