Music that changed my life in 2007

Time to conduct an arbitrary round-up of music that resonated with me this year. This is not a list of my favorite new music from 2007; much of it was released previously, some back in 1994. There are 22 releases in all.

Sorted first by genre, then by artist.

Alternative

• Antony & The Johnsons — I Am a Bird Now
• Blonde Redhead — 23
• Cat Power — The Greatest
• Charlotte Gainsbourg — 5:55
• A Northern Chorus — Spirit Flags
• PJ Harvey — White Chalk

Ambient/Drone

• Belong — October Language
• M83 — Digital Shades Vol. 1
• Stars of the Lid — And Their Refinement of the Decline
• Tim Hecker — Harmony in Ultraviolet

Electronic

• Ceephax — Megalift EP
• christ. — Blue Shift Emissions
• Clark — Body Riddle
• Daft Punk — Alive 2007
• The Field — From Here We Go Sublime
• The Future Sound of London — ISDN
• The Future Sound of London — Lifeforms
• Gescom — A1 – D1
• The Knife — Silent Shout – An Audio-Visual Experience
• Underworld — Everything, Everything

Soundtrack

• Clint Mansell — The Fountain
• Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson & Sigur Rós — Angels of the Universe