All Your Bass Are Belong to Us

Oooooh nooooooo

Shocking contender for top album of the year (non-LCD Soundsystem division):

• Neil Young - Chrome Dreams II (Reprise)
  

Shockingly worthy blog hype:

• Black Kids - Wizard of Ahhhs EP (self-released)
  

Shockingly waiting on it to happen for me:

• Radiohead - In Rainbows (self-released)
  

Shockingly meh:

• Animal Collective- Strawberry Jam (Domino)
• The White Stripes - Icky Thump (Third Man/Warner Bros.)
• Ted Leo and the Pharmacists - Living With the Living (Touch & Go)
• Interpol - Our Love to Admire (Capitol)

Shockingly borderline:

• Okkervil River - The Stage Names (Jagjaguwar)

Shockingly forgot these were released in 2007:

• Menomena - Friend and Foe (Barsuk)
  
• Low - Drums and Guns (Sub Pop)
• The Shins - Wincing the Night Away (Sub Pop)
  

Shockingly must remember to listen to again:

• Papercuts - Can't Go Back (Gnomonsong)
• A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Scribble Mural Comic Journal (Notenuf)
• The Rosebuds - Night of the Furies (Merge)
• The Clientele - God Save the Clientele (Merge)

Shockingly unsure what to make of them (but secretly sure they're full of shit):

• Vampire Weekend

Shockingly hotly anticipating:

• Wire - Read and Burn 03 (Pinkflag)
• Ghostface Killah - The Big Doe Rehab (Def Jam)
• Daft Punk - Alive 2007 (Virgin)
• James Murphy and Pat Mahoney - Fabriclive 36 (Fabric)