The best albums of 2007 drew from all kinds of different music, from the desert guitar of Tinariwen to the minimal techno of Ricardo Villalobos to the monster rock riffs of the White Stripes to steel-string mysticism of James Blackshaw. It was a year for landmarks of underground music (Panda Bear’s Person Pitch, Burial’s Untrue), brilliant debuts (The Field’s From Here We Go Sublime, Deerhunter’s Cryptograms), reasonably new artists hitting a peak (LCD Soundsystem’s The Sound of Silver, M.I.A.’s Kala), and veterans scaling new heights (Radiohead’s In Rainbows).
The 50 Best Albums of 2007
