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2007 was an awkward year, in terms of many things. You may have noticed on this blog that at first I wrote a lot, and then I didn't. (Yeah, I kind of noticed that too.) The reason why is fairly simple - all of a sudden, I became extremely non-linear and my thoughts needed a secret decoder ring. Like this

Also contributing to the bloggy weirdness in 2007 was that I spent the year intensely involved in recording my next project. Whenever recording happens, everything else falls away. After all, I'm a musician. Not a blogger. So blogging, along with a slew of other joys, had to step aside, son. One of those other joys was just listening to music for fun. Kind of like performing surgery for fun, once it's your profession, you don't spend your free time cutting and stitching anymore.

But despite myself, there were a few things which demanded enjoyment. So, here's my list of all things that were not necessarily released in, but delighted me in 2007.

ALBUMS
Bat for Lashes - Fur and Gold
This music is a whole universe built on a line drawing of a trapezoid. If you fall off the edge, little beasts will come to clean up the mess before stuffing your limbs with honey and setting you on a bookshelf next to a gummy diary from 1987.

My Brightest Diamond - Bring Me the Workhorse
If I concentrate on painted beauty, I'm fairly certain I could peel it back to reveal the labor of a workhorse. There is muscle beneath her delicate vocals features and it moves like a spider through drama.

Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
When I'm happy and want to rip the sky open to make it pour glitter, I listen to Patrick. When I'm dead sober and feel the leaden weight of concrete in my throat, I listen to Patrick. When I'm falling asleep and hallucinate the coiled vines of dreams climbing my walls, I listen to Patrick.

Ryan Hanifl - Sourpuss
I dreamed we went to a rock-opera, lay in the ridge of a guitar string, went swimming through a lake of drums, broke our hearts on a pencil tip, and woke up listening to this album.

The Flashbulb - Kirlian Selections
Stick your nerves with tubular needles, lay on a shore of warm sand, listen to the echoing notes of a piano inside a seashell, spin in the geometry of noisy glitch and fireworks, and try to see if you can see what you thought you saw only a moment ago. There are no better words.

SONGS
Charlotte Martin - Lost and Found
Glacier Hiking - Throw Down
Greta Gertler - If Bob Was God
Noe Venable - Into the Wild
Oliver the Penguin - Do I Leave My Heart Here
Reba Hasko - Drifting to the Veil
The Sounds - Painted By Numbers

FILMS
Best Boy (Probably my new favorite movie OF ALL TIME)
Junebug
Juno
The Smartest Guys in the Room
Zatoichi

BOOKS
The Ever-Transcending Spirit - Toru Sato
The Field - Lynne McTaggart
The People of Paper - Salvador Plascencia
True Love - Thich Nhat Hanh

I have to take a minute to talk about The People of Paper in case it didn't pop you in the nose as you read my list of Books Beginning With the Letter 'T'. When you hear my new album in a few months, remember that it couldn't have been completed without Salvador Plascencia and his universe of heartache. My fangirl gushing of stupid words can not do justice to this book. I've never thought about the oppressive weight of Saturn before, and now each song is filled with it.

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If you'd like to read the complete list of ALL things that Filled the Void in 2007, I've archived the list here.

Best of 2006.
Best of 2005.
Best of 2004.