2007 has been a pretty amazing year for music so far. There have been some big disappointments, sure - Smashing Pumpkins, Kings of Leon, From Autumn To Ashes. But there have been some incredible albums, some that have just blown me away.
As of last Monday, I was pretty sure what my top album of the year was going to be. It was kind of boring and predictable to pick the new album by your favorite band, but Every Time I Die's newest, The Big Dirty, is pretty great and is another solid evolution of their sound. Then A Wilhelm Scream's new album, Career Suicide, dropped on Tuesday and I was in love after the first listen through. Holy shit do they fucking tear things up. 13 songs, and not a clunker among them. 35 minutes of barn-burning fury. The lyrics, the vocals, the guitars, the drumming - they have delivered on everything. I've loved their last 2 albums, but this is simply beyond them in every way shape and form.
There are a couple records left to come out this year that I'm really looking forward to - Jimmy Eat World, The Hives, Thrice, and The Dillinger Escape Plan. Thrice's sounds pretty bad, but I'll give it a chance. Dillinger and JEW have a chance of being really great, so I'm waiting with baited breath for those. I think all those records have leaked online already, but I still have plenty of already-released stuff to listen and re-listen to, so I can wait. Hell, I've only listened to the new Radiohead album once - coming out a day after Career Suicide didn't exactly work in its favor, haha.
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