Polling booths are now open for the 2007 CLUAS End of Year Readers Poll. Vote now your favourite albums of 2007 from the shortlist of 40. You will also see on the voting page that I have thrown in an extra category for 'Best song of 2007'. I have also published details of how the final shortlist was arrived at. And here is the shortlist:

•  A Lazarus Soul - Graveyard of Burnt Out Cars


•  Animal Collective - Strawberry Jam


•  Arcade Fire - Neon Bible 


•  Battles - Mirrored


•  Blonde Redhead - 23


•  Bruce Springsteen - Magic   


•  Cathy Davey  - Tales of Silversleeve


•  Damien Dempsey - To Hell Or Barbados 


•  Editors - An End Has A Start


•  Elvis Perkins – Ash Wednesday 


•  Explosions In The Sky "All Of A Sudden I Miss Everyone"


•  Feist ''The Reminder'' 


•  Future Kings of Spain - NervousSystem 


•  God Is An Astronaut ''Far From Refuge'' 


•  Handsome Furs - Plague Park 


•  Headgear - Flight Cases


•  Interpol, Our love to admire


•  Iron and Wine "The Shepherd''s Dog" 


•  Jens Lekman - Night Falls Over Kortedala


•  Laura Viers 'Saltbreakers'


•  LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver


•  Low - Drums and Guns


•  Manic Street Preachers - Send Away The Tigers


•  Mark Ronson - Version


•  MIA - Kala


•  Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before the Ship Sank 


•  Mumblin'' Deaf Ro ''The Herring And The Brine'' 


•  Nina Hynes - Really Really Do 


•  Of Montreal ''Hissing Fauna, Are You Listening?'' 


•  Panda Bear - Person Pitch 


•  PJ Harvey White Chalk 


•  Radiohead - In Rainbows


•  Robert Plant and Alison Krauss - Raining Sands 


•  Robert Wyatt - Comicopera 


•  Sunset Rubdown - Random Spirit Lover 


•  The Field - From Here We Go Sublime 


•  The Kings Of Leon - Because Of The Times 


•  The National - Boxer 


•  The Shins - Wincing The Night Away


•  Wilco - Sky Blue Sky

Get voting!

eoghan

Where is Beirut's new album.

I cant believe it has not made the top40 albums and wasnt even mentioned last week in the mini poll for inclusion.

Shame on you Cluas!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Done

Good list, although you've incredibly left out 'the monkey pole' again!

Mark Ronson, the 21st century equivalent of the 80's masters, Undercover...Mark Ronson, you can derelict my balls ye chancin hooer!

PQ

Be as cool or wilfully obscure as you wish but 'In Rainbows' is the album of the year by a country mile.

Gotta agree with carry_grant;

1. Radiohead
2. National
3. Wilco

plus wilco for gig of the year, followed closely by National...although wait! Iggy at the picnic..wait! Bjork at the picnic..hmm