NME's 50 Best Albums of 2007

NME's 50 Best Albums of 2007

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50.

October 9, 2007
Critic Score
76
22 reviews

49.

July 10, 2007
Critic Score
73
27 reviews
So make a fuss over their return, but let it be for this reason: Interpol have made a great album.

45.

March 6, 2007
Critic Score
77
17 reviews

44.

January 8, 2007
Critic Score
76
19 reviews

In contrast to ... 'Yr Atal Genhedlaeth', which was a bunch of promising, but half-finished song sketches, 'Candylion' is a much more coherent and loveable affair, and up there with some of SFA's better moments.

43.

September 25, 2007
Critic Score
66
25 reviews
By and large this is as consistent a record as the Foo Fighters have ever made.

40.

March 20, 2007
Critic Score
78
24 reviews

His music has always been dense, dark and perverse and this is no different.

39.

Jeffrey Lewis - 12 Crass Songs
October 1, 2007
Critic Score
61
9 reviews

38.

July 10, 2007
Critic Score
80
19 reviews
Justice? Talent to spare, but that doesn’t stop ‘†’ being just another frustrating dance music album.

36.

Holy Fuck - Holy Fuck
November 1, 2005
Critic Score
73
7 reviews

35.

August 27, 2007
Critic Score
76
23 reviews
11 years into their career, SFA have produced some of their most beautiful songs yet.

32.

April 10, 2007
Critic Score
79
21 reviews
'Grinderman' is an almost defiantly edgy record.

30.

June 12, 2007
Critic Score
73
22 reviews
Spiky and cool where 'Songs For The Deaf' was smooth and tanned, tense and alien where that record was baked and ready to party, 'Era Vulgaris' is a record that feels like rust and stings like battery acid.

29.

Lethal Bizzle - Back To Bizznizz
July 23, 2007
Critic Score
67
6 reviews

28.

April 10, 2007
Critic Score
78
26 reviews
This is about as close to a bid for mainstream acceptance as you're going to get from Bright Eyes.

27.

The Horrors - Strange House
May 15, 2007
Critic Score
67
20 reviews
Cool cover or not, 'Strange House' is a strong debut from a band who, many sceptics believed, were at their best in front of a camera rather than behind instruments.

25.

October 3, 2006
Critic Score
84
27 reviews
Almost cinematic in feel, much of The Hold Steady's genius lies in Finn's ability to craft songs that tell stories as wise, textured and three-dimensional as the nearest old oak tree.

23.

Maps - We Can Create
April 16, 2007
Critic Score
71
12 reviews

22.

September 11, 2007
Critic Score
76
9 reviews

18.

January 22, 2007
Critic Score
74
25 reviews
For all its weird beauty, this is very much Damon's record - much more so than Gorillaz. Or indeed, Blur.

17.

September 24, 2007
Critic Score
81
10 reviews

16.

August 6, 2007
Critic Score
66
16 reviews
A wobbly start, but luckily The Coral are just finding their sea legs.

15.

June 19, 2007
Critic Score
78
25 reviews
The title’s Northern, the songs are Scottish, the cover’s Cockney… the result is incredible.

14.

October 1, 2007
Critic Score
68
21 reviews

Shotters Nation isn't his magum opus, it's still infinitely more consistent, listenable and likely to get played on the radio than its predecessor ever was.

13.

September 25, 2007
Critic Score
78
28 reviews

Frustratingly, though, ‘White Chalk’ isn’t consistent enough to be a classic PJ album, and if you’re new to her music, this isn’t the ideal place to start.

12.

January 23, 2007
Critic Score
80
27 reviews
Their best yet.

11.

March 12, 2007
Critic Score
85
29 reviews

Never does any of this attention to detail interfere with the record’s main purpose – to make you shake parts of your body you never knew existed.

10.

May 22, 2007
Critic Score
82
22 reviews

‘Mirrored’ is the sort of album that the sharp rock kids will be citing as an inspiration in the pages of NME in a decade’s time. It’s a glimpse through a prism into a myriad of rock futures, and all of them look like a blast.

9.

July 17, 2007
Critic Score
71
16 reviews

They’ve made this record, not for their bank balances, but for the emo kids, disillusioned Libs fans and alt.rock obsessives who’ve held them close to their hearts since day one.

8.

June 4, 2007
Critic Score
71
11 reviews

It’s not fashionable, it doesn’t have a haircut, it doesn’t strut about all cocksure in fancy matching military wear. No, ‘Puzzle’ is substance over style.

7.

August 21, 2007
Critic Score
85
28 reviews

MIA's skills don’t necessarily lie in her singing, rapping or lyrics, rather the clarity of her vision.

6.

April 3, 2007
Critic Score
78
25 reviews

As it stands, ‘Because Of The Times’ cements Kings Of Leon as one of the great American bands of our times.

5.

September 18, 2007
Critic Score
80
22 reviews

LSF haven’t made their definitive record by accident. The signs were there on 2001’s ‘Go Forth’ – but this is a step up and into the best party on Earth.

4.

March 5, 2007
Critic Score
85
30 reviews
‘Neon Bible’ is a climactic monolith of a record in the grand tradition of melodic transatlantic clamour rock, as extolled by Mercury Rev and The Flaming Lips.

2.

April 18, 2007
Critic Score
79
30 reviews

‘…Nightmare’ is four young men-of-the-world casting aside their juvenile naiveté and emerging stronger, savvier and, well, more salacious.

1.

January 29, 2007
Critic Score
68
23 reviews

Whether Klaxons will reshape our world into a fluorescent myth-tropolis as successfully as The Strokes turned the mono-tune remains to be seen, but their debut has the anatomy necessary to change the course of a generation.

Original Source: http://www.nme.com/bestalbumsandtracksoftheyear/2007
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