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Top 40 Albums of 2007
35. Hard-Fi - Once Upon A Time In The West
Highlights: Suburban Knights, Watch Me Fall Apart, I Close My Eyes
"While the songs aren't particularly complex and won't be to the taste of anyone after something challenging, the band impress with how easy they make straightforward songwriting look. " - MusicOMH
34. Stars - In Our Bedroom After The War
Highlights: The Night Starts Here, Take Me To The Riot, Bitches In Tokyo
"In Our Bedroom After The War is Stars' most consistent, nuanced album, and says good things for the future, but Campbell and Millan won't write a perfect record until they learn what their songs need, and abandon the inevitable few tracks on which it's refused. " - Stylus
33. The Pidgeon Detectives - Wait For Me
Highlights: I Cant Control Myself, I'm Not Sorry, Romantic Type
"Some may think Leeds’ Pigeon Detectives are a poor man’s Cribs. Maybe so, but only in the same way that Arcade Fire are a poor man’s Radiohead – either way, you’re still on to a winner. Some people also reckon that The Pigeon Detectives’ music is dumb. Some people are idiots. If NME made the rules, then making all your songs three minutes long and throwing in a load of handclaps, shouty choruses and amazing melodies would automatically give you an IQ of at least 353." - NME < - -
now thats brilliant
32. M.I.A. - Kala
Highlights: Paper Planes, Boyz, Jimmy, Bird Flu
"With its mix of Tamil pop, Baltimore beats and, yes, funk carioca Kala succeeds best in pulling genres together to make something both unique and identifiable --a 'hip-hop' record that explores what it means to sing about "hip-hop things." - Drowned In Sound
31. Radiohead - In Rainbows
Highlights: Jigsaw Falling Into Place, 15 Step, Weird Fishes
"The brilliant In Rainbows represents no such thing [downshift]. Nonetheless, it's a very different kind of Radiohead record. Liberated from their self-imposed pressure to innovate, they sound--for the first time in ages--user-friendly. " - Pitchfork
I really agree about the "user friendly" bit. This is by far Radiohead's most accessible and relatable disc to date.
