DEERHOOF
It’s that time of the year to look back and think about the sounds, the images and the sources of entertainment that we have enjoy during the last twelve months.
2007 has been more interesting for the flood of changes afecting the music industry, than for the music itself: Internet has consolidated a new way to discover, consume and enjoy it; reigniting the torch of the indie spirit as it was experienced during the 80’s in Great Britain and pushing a new generation of emerging bands towards the mainstream. Meanwhile, it was all doom and gloom for the remaining four majors, who began to watch their biggest stars abandoning its sinking ship to fall in the arms of live promoters, café franchisers or anybody else prepared to pay the exorbitant sums they are accustomed to. Some others, with Radiohead headlining, took the DIY route, sowing the seed of a small media revolution, with extraordinary results.
Few records could be hailed as future classics. Albeit a considerable number of releases coming from all genres with above average quality made of 2007 an excellent year.
After the jump, our countdown of the Best 100 albums of 2007 begins. Every one of them linked to as much audivisual material as we could find in the net for it:
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