In case you haven’t noticed, I listen to scores of new releases (so you don’t have to) and pick out my favorites (for one reason or another). So, check out (won’t you?) these excellent releases from the first half of 2007 (part 2 of 2):

• Ghost Stories – Quixoticism
• The Good, The Bad and The Queen – The Good, the Bad & the Queen
• Gus Gus – Forever
• Hem – Home Again, Home Again (EP)
  
• The Hours – Narcissus Road (MySpace)
  
• Idlewild – Make Another World
• Illinois – What The Hell Do I Know?
• Interpol – Our Love to Admire
• Laura Veirs – Saltbreakers
• Lemongrass – Filmothèque (iTunes)
• Lucine ICL – Podgelism
• M.I.A. – Kala
• Maps – We Can Create
• Menomena! – Wet and Rusting (EP)
• Monta – The Brilliant Masses
• Mordant Music – The Tower Parts VIII – XVIII
• Moss – The Long Way Back (MySpace)
• The Noisettes – What’s the Time Mr. Wolf?
• The One AM Radio – This Too Will Pass
• People Press Play - People Press Play
• Pop Levi – The Return to Form Black Magick Party
• Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd – After The Night Falls and Before The Day Breaks
• The Sea and the Cake – Everybody
• The Secret Handshake – Summer of ’98
• Sia – Lady Croissant
• Sophie Zelmani – Memory Loves You
• Switches – Switches (MySpace)
• The Tuss – Rushup Edge
• Ulrich Schnauss – Goodbye and Quicksand Memory (EP)
• Various – Nouvelle Vague Presents: New Wave