FILTER Top 10 - First Half Of '07

So the votes have all been cast, the scores tabulated, and we can now present you with 10 of the FILTER staff's favorite albums of the first half of 2007. The only rules were that the album must have been released in the U.S. between 01/01/07 and 06/30/07, and that it be a proper album; no EPs, compilations, soundtracks etc. Congrats to everyone who made the top 10.

• Klaxons - Myths Of The Near Future (Geffen)
• Travis - The Boy With No Name (Epic)
• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible (Merge)
• Kings Of Leon - Because of the Times (RCA)
• Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday (XL)
• Wilco - Sky Blue Sky (Nonesuch)
• The Shins - Wincing The Night Away (Sub Pop)
• Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer? (Polyvinyl)
• The Good, The Bad & The Queen - Self-Titled (Virgin)
• Andrew Bird - Armchair Apochrypha (Fat Possum)

Now which titles will have legs enough to make it into the year-end Top 10?

A sampling of the individual picks can be seen after the jump.

Alan Miller (co-publisher)

1. Travis – The Boy With No Name
2. The Good, the Bad & the Queen - self-titled
3. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob
4. Great Northern - Trading Twilight for Daylight
5. Lily Allen - Alright, Still

Alan Sartirana (co-publisher)

1. Blonde Redhead - 23
2. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
3. Bright Eyes - Cassadaga
4. Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City
5. Arcade Fire — Neon Bible

Pat McGuire (editorial)

1. Elvis Perkins - Ash Wednesday
2. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apochrypha
3. Arbouretum - Rites of Uncovering
4. The National - Boxer
5. El-P - I'll Sleep When You're Dead

Eric Almendral (editorial)

1. Arcade Fire — Neon Bible
2. The National — Boxer
3. Wilco — Sky Blue Sky
4. Elvis Perkins — Ash Wednesday
5. Lily Allen — Alright, Still

Colin Stutz (editorial)

1. Elvis Perkins — Ash Wednesday
2. Andrew Bird - Armchair Apocrypha
3. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
4. Wilco - Sky Blue Sky
5. Dr. Dog - We All Belong

Andrea LaBarge (editorial)

1. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
2. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna
3. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead
4. Yoko Ono - Yes, I'm a Witch
5. The Shins - Wincing The Night Away

Penny Hewson (online)

1. Great Northern - Trading Twilight For Daylight
2. fields. - Everything Last Winter
3. Lets Go Sailing - The Chaos In Order
4. Goldrush - The Heart Is The Place
5. Loney, Dear - Loney, Noir

Ewan Anderson (filter-mag.com)

1. Maps - We Can Create
2. Aereogramme - My Heart Has A Wish You Would Not Go
3. Feist - The Reminder
4. Dinosaur Jr. - Beyond
5. Jarvis Cocker – Jarvis

Samantha Barnes (online)

1. Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times
2. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position
3. Dappled Cities - Granddance
4. Dr. Dog - We All Belong
5. The View - Hats Off To The Buskers

Stephen Barr (online)

1. Kings of Leon – Because of the Times
2. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
3. Field Music – Tones of Town
4. Paul McCartney – Memory Almost Full
5. Ryan Adams – Easy Tiger

Torr Leonard (blog.filter-mag.com)

1. Travis - The Boy With No Name
2. The Rosebuds - Night Of The Furies
3. Fields - Everything Last Winter
4. Voxtrot - self-titled
5. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis

Ana Armstrong (sales)

1. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
2. Feist - The Reminder
3. Jarvis Cocker - Jarvis
4. Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55
5. Handsome Furs - Plague Park

Mike Bell (marketing)

1. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
2. Albert Hammond Jr. - Yours to Keep
3. Wilco – Sky Blue Sky
4. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
5. Dungen – Tio Bitar

Jose Vargas (marketing)

1. Explosions in the Sky - All of a Sudden I Miss Everyone
2. Klaxons - Myths of the Near Future
3. Travis - The Boy With No Name
4. Electric Soft Parade - No Need to Be Downhearted
5. Kaiser Chiefs - Yours Truly, Angry Mob

Max Hellmann (circulation)

1. Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
2. Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?
3. The Shins - Wincing the Night Away
4. White Stripes - Icky Thump
5. Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Samantha Feld (marketing)

1. The Good, the Bad & the Queen – Self-titled
2. Sage Francis - Human The Death Dance
3. Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
4. King of Leon – Because of The Times
5. The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Comments

[it's me]

andrew bird better than fields? they wuz robbed.

[megatron]

Can't believe that Feist didn't make the top ten! She's dreamy...

[stephanie]

Not any mention of the new LCD Soundsystem??

[matt]

menomena anyone?

[Leah]

Thank you Mike. Albert Hammond has rocked my world. So many great things already and so many great more to come.