Fresh from my winnings of 3rd top writer on WHM, I return bringing goodwill and hot girls for all! Seriously though, I figured I could start a "Best Of" thread for 2007, starting with my own entries for my personal favourite tune and album of the past year.
So first up is the best thing I heard all year, Sarah Howell's psychadelic like guitar and smoothly flowing voice in the reasuringly powerful chorus of Halflight's When We Danced, turning the whole tune from a fairly good indie pop track to my favourite single track of 2007. If you wanna hear more, it's available on the band's My Disguise EP along with previously WHM'd tune Worship. If they improve on this next year I'll have to move back to Wales.
And my second and final mention of the year goes to the can't-believe-they're-still-this-good Welsh rocking hardcore-punk me(n)talers (though strangely and sadly lacking in hot-girls) Midasuno. Obviously they've been blogged here before, but in short I first heard some demos in 2003ish, took a while for them to sink in but once they did they showed a hell of a lot of promise. Ever since they've released one thing after another and the very fact they just took a mixture of old and new songs alike, re-recorded them and stuck em in this year's Songs In The Key Of Fuck album release means it's the single greatest collection of tunes I've had the pleasure of purchasing this year; there's not a single track on there that rocks one bit less than another. Rocking slightly more than the rest though is the included and fittingly titled 1997, one of my favourites from said album. If you like your rock hard, synthed up, atheitised, cream coated and - most importantly - Welsh, then track down a copy online from mostly anywhere.
And that's it from me this year. Next year you can look forward to even harder rock from the likes of obscure early 2000s punk imigrants Papa Roach, yet-another-criminally-underated UK indie rockers Kinesis, and god-not-another-self-obsessed-pepsi-post "My First Time", a collection of the original tunes that got me in to all the bands I've posted so much about on here. You know what that means eh? More Crocketts! Well... at least you got Vu to look forward to. Who's up for a pool on when he'll reach 800 posts then? 2009 too late?
- Christopher (pepsi_max2k)
So first up is the best thing I heard all year, Sarah Howell's psychadelic like guitar and smoothly flowing voice in the reasuringly powerful chorus of Halflight's When We Danced, turning the whole tune from a fairly good indie pop track to my favourite single track of 2007. If you wanna hear more, it's available on the band's My Disguise EP along with previously WHM'd tune Worship. If they improve on this next year I'll have to move back to Wales.
And that's it from me this year. Next year you can look forward to even harder rock from the likes of obscure early 2000s punk imigrants Papa Roach, yet-another-criminally-underated UK indie rockers Kinesis, and god-not-another-self-obsessed-pepsi-post "My First Time", a collection of the original tunes that got me in to all the bands I've posted so much about on here. You know what that means eh? More Crocketts! Well... at least you got Vu to look forward to. Who's up for a pool on when he'll reach 800 posts then? 2009 too late?
- Christopher (pepsi_max2k)
