Top 21 Local CDs 2007

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Top 21 Local CDs 2007

POSTED: Wednesday, December 26, 2007, 4:23 PM

Filed Under: Music Philly Bands

One critic's opinion? Definitive list forever?

Devin Greenwood, champion

1. Devin Greenwood Devin Greenwood (Treasure)
2. East Hundred Copper Street Performer (self-released)
3. GANG Guess What You’ll Find … (Hot Dog City)
4. Cynthia G. Mason Quitter’s Claim (High Two)
5. Birdie Busch Penny Arcade (Bar/None)
6. The Bee Team Hot Times USA (Our Neighborhood)
7. Amy Pickard & The Cradlers Cut from the Hopeless (self-released)
8. Gillian Grassie Serpentine (self-released)
9. Pony Pants Fives (Badmaster)
10. The Trolleyvox Your Secret Safe/Luzerne (Transit of Venus)
11. Illuminea Out of Our Mouths (High Two)
12. Zolof the Rock & Roll Destroyer Schematics (Reignition)
13. Fern Knight Music for Witches and Alchemists (VHF)
14. Grey Reverend A Startled Wish (Sugarcut)
15. Bitter Bitter Weeks Peace Is Burning Like a River (High Two)
16. Rarebirds Buried at Sea (self-released)
17. Milton & The Devils Party How Wicked We’ve Become (Transit of Venus)
18. Umlaut Umlaut (Space Hooker)
19. Fursaxa Alone in the Dark Wood (ATP)
20. Cheese on Bread The Search for Colonel Mustard (self-released)
21. Jill Scott The Real Thing: Words and Sounds, Vol. 3 (Hidden Beach)

(a) #1, #13 and #14 technically came out in the last six weeks of 2006, but why should they get the shaft just because no one pays attention to new releases at the end of the year?
(b) If live albums were eligible, I’d put Cassendre Xavier’s self-released Live at Tin Angel at #9 and move everything after that down a notch.
(c) #14 lives in Brooklyn now, but he lived in Philly when he made the record.

deesha dyer

Posted 2007-12-26 16:39:25

THAT'S IT...everyone over at CP is getting a CD of local hip-hop in their stockings for 2008. :) Nice to see Jill made your list!

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