Saturday, December 22, 2007

Continued Year-End Coverage

As promised, Never Learned to Swim is keeping an eye on the blogosphere to keep you updated on the flurry of year end criticism. Pitchfork has released its gargantuan staff list of the top fifty albums of the year. Here are their top ten:

1. Panda Bear - Person Pitch
2. LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver
3. M.I.A. - Kala
4. Radiohead - In Rainbows
5. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
6. Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam
7. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
8. Battles - Mirrored
9. The Field - From Here We Go Sublime
10. Burial - Untrue

As compared to ours here at Never Learned to Swim:

1. Radiohead - In Rainbows
2. The National - Boxer
2. Okkervil River - The Stage Names
4. Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala
5. Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
6. Sea Wolf - Leaves in the River
7. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
8. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
9. The White Stripes - Icky Thump
10. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

A list of the individual Pitchfork staff members' top albums can be found here:
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/47484-staff-list-2007-individual-albums-lists

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