Ballot: Matthew Pollesel
ALBUMS (descending points)
1. Handsome Furs - Plague Park
2. Amos The Transparent - Everything I've Forgotten To Forget
3. Young Galaxy - Young Galaxy
4. Basia Bulat - Oh My Darling
5. Jim Bryson - Where The Bungalows Roam
6. Two Hours Traffic - Little Jabs
7. Kyrie Kristmanson - The Kyrie K Groove
8. Miracle Fortress - Five Roses
9. Celebration - The Modern Tribe
10. Entire Cities - Entire Cities
TRACKS
1. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
2. Natasha Bedingfield - Wanna Have Your Babies
3. Beth In Battle Mode - No Feeling
4. Entire Cities - Dancing With My Brother
5. Amos The Transparent - After All That, It's Come To This (feat. Amy Millan)
6. Great Bloomers - Catching Up
7. Handsome Furs - Hearts of Iron
8. Miracle Fortress - Hold Your Secrets to Your Heart
9. These Electric Lives - We Should Be Believing
10. Young Galaxy - Swing Your Heartache
ARTISTS
1. Handsome Furs
2. Young Galaxy
3. Basia Bulat
4. The Acorn
5. Amos The Transparent
COMMENTS
Honestly, this was the year I stopped reading all but a handful of music blogs. Even though online file-sharing services made it easier than ever to start up a blog, this was completely defeated by the fact seemingly everyone was posting about the same 15-20 bands. There was some wonderfully diverse music being made in 2007, but you wouldn't know it from the way most people posted nothing but Arcade Fire/Spoon/The National/Radiohead/Band of Horses. Those bands all released boring, forgettable albums that would've sunk under the radar had they been released by anyone else, but since they were who they were, people salivated over them. It was kind of depressing, given all the promise that blogs once possessed, but hopefully 2008 will remedy things...

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