The Best Albums of 2007
Trying to come up with a unifying theme that will snugly encompass a whole year's worth of releases is, by and large, a sucker's game. There are too many records, too many disparate visions, too much diversity. You can do it in small clumps, but twenty at a time? Forget it.
That's the case even more so with the year's crop of subscribers' and critics' picks. They run the gamut, from gnarled and experimental to focused and triumphant. They represent the best eMusic has to offer. The top three alone represent aesthetics that are (literally, in fact) whole worlds apart.
Rather than look for an overarching message, it would be better still to appreciate the distance. Music in 2007 was grand and roaming and expansive, with no idea unexplored, no notion too absurd or unrealistic.
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