Billboard Critics' Picks
Find out which albums Billboard's staff and writers chose as the 10 best releases of 2007.
Our critics were all invited to submit a list of their 2007 favorites. Rankings were then determined by assigning points to each critic's individual Top 10 list on an inverse point system -- where 10 points were given to a title listed at No. 1, and one point given to a No. 10 entry. In tallying the top 10 lists, only albums were counted for this overall critics' choice list (singles and live shows appear in some lists, but weren't used to tabulate the final results).
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Critics' Tally: 29 Points
Battles' debut left Billboard senior editor Jonathan Cohen "speechless," and indies correspondent Cortney Harding called it the "soundtrack to a robot army dance party." Read the Critics' Lists
BILLBOARD REVIEW: As fans of groups like Tortoise, Explosions In The Sky and Pelican can attest, the best acts in modern rock over the last 10 years or so are the ones who know enough to shut the heck up and just play without some weak vocalization and nonsense lyrics gumming up the jam. So when one of these titans of 21st century instrumentalism decides to venture into the art of singing, as Battles have done on their full-length feature "Mirrored," skepticism abounds. Fortunately for this multi-hued supergroup, Tyondai Braxton, much like his father, '70s avant-jazz giant Anthony Braxton, is one far-out brother, who'd rather flex his vocal chords to add another dimension to the experimental nature of his band than as a platform for expressing his emotions....
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