THE TOP 40 ALBUMS OF 2007 ------------------------- 1. JENS LEKMAN - Night Falls Over Kortedala (Service Sweden/Secretly Canadian) 2. VARIOUS ARTISTS - I'm Not There Original Soundtrack (Sony) 3. AMY WINEHOUSE - Back To Black (Island UK .06/Universal Republic) 4. LCD SOUNDSYSTEM - Sound Of Silver (DFA/Capitol) 5. VIC CHESNUTT - North Star Deserter (Constellation) 6. KANYE WEST - Graduation (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) 7. JARVIS COCKER - Jarvis (Rough Trade) 8. ELLIOTT SMITH - New Moon (Kill Rock Stars) 9. M.I.A. - Kala (XL/Interscope) 10. NEW MODEL ARMY - High (Attack Attack) 11. ELECTRELANE - No Shouts No Calls (Too Pure) 12. GRINDERMAN - Grinderman (Mute/Anti-) 13. EL-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead (Definitive Jux) 14. EMMA POLLOCK - Watch The Fireworks (4AD) 15. DINOSAUR JR. - Beyond (Fat Possum) 16. THE TWILIGHT SAD - Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters (FatCat) 17. KRISTIN HERSH - Learn To Sing Like A Star (Yep Roc) 18. BABYSHAMBLES - Shotter's Nation (Regal/Parlophone/EMI UK/Astralwerks) 19. BILL CALLAHAN - Woke On A Whaleheart (Drag City) 20. ST. VINCENT - Marry Me (Beggars Banquet) 21. THURSTON MOORE - Trees Outside The Academy (Ecstatic Peace!) 22. ROBERT WYATT - Comicopera (Domino) 23. MAXIMO PARK - Our Earthly Pleasures (Warp) 24. SPOON - Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga (Merge) 25. RICHARD HAWLEY - Lady's Bridge (Mute) 26. WILCO - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch) 27. ARCADE FIRE - Neon Bible (Merge) 28. SHARON JONES & THE DAP-KINGS - 100 Days, 100 Nights (Daptone) 29. RICHARD THOMPSON - Sweet Warrior (Shout Factory) 30. EDWYN COLLINS - Home Again (Heavenly/EMI UK) 31. ELVIS PERKINS - Ash Wednesday (XL) 32. RILO KILEY - Under The Blacklight (Warner) 33. THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS - Challengers (Matador) 34. THE CLIENTELE - God Save The Clientele (Merge) 35. OAKLEY HALL - I'll Follow You (Merge) 36. MODEST MOUSE - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank (Epic) 37. BLONDE REDHEAD - 23 (4AD) 38. THE WHITE STRIPES - Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner) 39. MARY WEISS - Dangerous Game (Norton) 40. ARTHUR & YU - In Camera (Hardly Art)