Music Update I: February 25, 2007

This post represents the first installment of what will hopefully become a monthly publication. Included is a current list of top 2007 albums and tracks, notable upcoming releases, and a mini-review of the highlighted album of the month. While not entirely based in surrealism, the artists featured in said lists and reviews represent post-rock, shoegaze, and other experimental genres that owe much to surrealist theory and contemporary exploitation.

Current Top 15 Albums of 2007

1. Beware of Safety- It Is Curtains*

2. Explosions in the Sky- All Of a Sudden, I Miss Everyone

3. Portland- Adrienne

4. Ours to Alibi- Beacons

5. Eaten by Tigers- Entropy

6. Wes Willenbring- Somewhere Someone Else

7. Caspian- The Four Trees

8. Nic Bommarito- Taciturn

9. Air Formation- Daylight Storms

10. Signal Hill- Signal Hill

11. Efterklang- Under Giant Trees

12. The Twilight Sad- Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters

13. The American Dollar- The Technicolor Sleep

14. The Pirate Ship Quintet- The Pirate Ship Quintet

15. From the Sky- Like Crystal In a World Of Glass

*Highlighted Album (review to come shortly)

Current Top 5 Tracks of 2007

1. Nic Bommarito- The Academic (Life and Afterlife)

2. Beware of Safety- To The Roof! Let's Jump and Fall

3. Caspian- Moksha

4. Wes Willenbring- Sometimes

5. Ours to Alibi- Beacons

Notable Upcoming Releases

(Click on names for Myspace links)

Wembly Shadwell- Shapeshifter (Feb. 23)

Graboids- Infinite Delay (Feb. 27)

Foxtail Somersault- Fathom (Mar. 2)

Euphoria- White Pattern (Mar. 2)

Jatun- Jatun (Mar. 6)

Tunturia- Maps (TBA)