Your top non-rap releases of 2007 (updates anyone?)

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Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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Just wondering what everyones favorite albums so far are this year (non rap.)

My top 10 in order are...

1. Battles - Mirrored
2. Circa Survive - On Letting Go
3. Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
4. The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
5. God Is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge
6. Hopesfall - Magentic North
7. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
8. Blonde Redhead - 23
9. Tegan and Sara - The Con
10. Glös - Harmonium

I know two of them (Minus the Bear & Tegan and Sara) haven't even been officially released yet but whatever.

Other albums I like a lot are...

Portugal. The Man - Church Mouth
The Dear Hunter - Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
From Autumn to Ashes - Holding A Wolf By The Ears
Deerhoof - Friend Opportunity
Panda Bear of Animal Collective - Person Pitch
Funeral Diner - Doors Open
See You Next Tuesday - Parasite
65daysofstatic - The Destruction of Small Ideas
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
Austin TV - Fontana Bella
Caspian - The Four Trees
Do Make Say Think - You, You're a History in Rust
Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
The Six Parts Seven - Casually Smashed to Pieces
The Chariot - The Fiancee

Plus I'm positive I'm forgetting quite a few others that are really good. There are also a number of albums I'm waiting to hear that still haven't been leaked/released so I'm sure my top 10 will be switching around a bunch although I don't think anything this year will take that Battles album out of the number one spot. You never know though.
 
Syk0tic

Syk0tic

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Theres been a lot of releases but the ones that really got my attenion are...

Vrolok - Resurgence III: Order of the Sphere
Bit By Bats - Go Go Go
The Photo Atlas - No, Not Me, Never
Damiera - M(US)IC
Au Revoir Simone - The Bird Of Music
 
B-Buzz

B-Buzz

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1. The Dear Hunter- Act II: The Meaning Of & All Things Regarding Ms. Leading
2. The Fall of Troy- Manipulator
3. Minus the Bear- Planet of Ice
4. Kiss Kiss- Reality Vs. the Optimist
5. Dance Gavin Dance- Downtown Battle Mountain
6. Modest Mouse- We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
7. 65daysofstatic- The Destruction of Small Ideas
8. Straylight Run- The Needles, The Space
9. Biffy Clyro- Puzzle
10. Hot Cross- Risk Revival
and throw Circa Survive- On Letting Go somewhere in there, I don't want to take any of these off haha.

Honorable Mention: NIN- Year Zero, Damiera- M(US)IC, Olympia- Emergencies, Pierce the Veil- A Flair For the Dramatic, Portugal. The Man- Church Mouth, Tiger Army- Music From Regions Beyond, Dustin Kensrue- Please Come Home, The White Stripes- Icky Thump, Bloc Party- A Weekend In the City, Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet, Exlosions In the Sky- All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone, HORSE The Band- A Natural Death, The Junior Varsity- Cinematographaic

Still to come:
3- The End Is Begun (July 24th)
The Number 12 Looks Like You- Mongrel (June 19th)
Interpol- Our Love To Admire (July 10th)
Motion City Soundtrack- Even If It Kills Me (Sept. 18th)
The Receiving End of Sirens- The Earth Sings Mi Fa Mi (August 8th)
Protest the Hero- TBA
The Forecast- TBA
Idiot Pilot- Wolves
Coheed & Cambria- Good Apollo I'm Burning Star IV vol.2: The World of No Tomorrow
Thrice- Earth, Air, Water, Fire
The Mars Volta- TBA
Kay Kay & His Weathered Underground- TBA
Glassjaw- TBA


Disappointments: Queens of the Stone Age, Alkaline Trio, Bayside

And I still need to hear Battles and Darkest Hour
 
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Fucky McFuckerson

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Porcupine Tree- Fear of a Blank Planet
Exlosions In the Sky- All of A Sudden I Miss Everyone
HORSE The Band- A Natural Death
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Minus the Bear - Planet of Ice
The Fall of Troy - Manipulator
God Is an Astronaut - Far From Refuge
Hopesfall - Magentic North
Blonde Redhead - 23
Aereogramme - My Heart Has a Wish That You Would Not Go
 
Syk0tic

Syk0tic

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Speaking of 65daysofstatic, who's going to see them on tour with Hot Cross, This Will Destroy You, and Fear Before the March of Flames?
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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B-Buzz said:
And I still need to hear Battles
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Mirrored is one of the best albums I've heard in I don't know, a really long time. It's really so different from anything I've ever heard too. I couldn't even tell you who/what it sounds like because it doesn't sound like anybody else out there.

It's weird as fuck but in a really really good type of way.

Battles - Atlas (the song is like 7 minutes long on the album)


I think the best way to describe the sound of the band/album is to quote part of their review from The Stranger (local Seattle paper)

Music is finally evolving faster than the humanity that spawns it. It's hard to hear Mirrored and not imagine a massive mainframe in some secret mountain bunker—WarGames' WOPR, perhaps—spiraling out these clanging melodies and arithmetic rhythms as the codex to an impossible equation. At least at first listen; repeat visits reveal deeply embedded patterns and discrete movements, a superliminal fractal logic that twists these man-machine compositions into more than the sum of their parts.
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The first time I listened to the album I thought it was really good, after a couple more listens I was hooked and now think it's one of the best albums released in years. It's getting a lot of critical acclaim too which I find odd seeing it's such a different kind of sound than the norm.

Okay enough of me being a fanboy like RJ, back on track.
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

not nolettuce
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It's because you're a mainstream hipster Jesse lol :cheeky:

No but really I've noticed you don't care much for experimental music so I figured you wouldn't like it. That song and album is amazing though...IMO.
 
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RedStorm

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Haven't listened to much newer stuff this year, but here's what I like so far...

Nest - Trail of the Unwary
Moonsorrow - V: Havitetty
Finntroll - Ur Jordens Djup
Hellveto - In the Glory of Heroes
Pelican - City of Echoes
Virgin Black - Requiem: Mezzo Forte
 
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Fucky McFuckerson

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Nuttkase said:
It's because you're a mainstream hipster Jesse lol :cheeky:

No but really I've noticed you don't care much for experimental music so I figured you wouldn't like it. That song and album is amazing though...IMO.
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I like evert genre...the problem is that experimental shouldnt be a genre becuase its so broad...
 
fershiggs

fershiggs

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Wyrd - Kammen
Amesoeurs - Ruines Humaines (06 w/e i cant think of 10:ermm:)
Grails - Burning Off Impurities
Psyopus - Our Puzzling Encounters Considered
Lifelover - Erotik
Circa Survive - On Letting Go
Peste Noire - Lorraine Rehearsal
See You Next Tuesday - Parasite
Mono - Travel In Constants Vol. 22 - The Phoenix Tree
Sunn O))) - Oracle
 
Nuttkase

Nuttkase

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Damn...see I forgot all about the new Psyopus. That album is amazing. Both those Mono and Grail's albums are really good too.

I still need to check out the new Sun O))), haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
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