Artist	Song	Buy
The Whore Moans	X-ray Eyes
Aqueduct	Living a Lie
Kaiser Chiefs	Ruby
Kanye West	Flashing Lights [feat. Dwele]
M.I.A.	Jimmy
Silverchair	Waiting All Day
Nicole Atkins	Party's Over
Common	Break My Heart
Mark Ronson	Just (feat. Phantom Planet) [Radiohead cover]
Apparat	Hailin from the Edge
Grizzly Bear	Knife (Girl Talk mix)
Nine Inch Nails	Vessel
Black Lips	Step Right Up
Foo Fighters	The Pretender
Klaxons	Golden Skans
Menomena	Wet & Rusty
Tegan and Sara	Back in Your Head
LCD Soundsystem	All My Friends
Lucinda Williams	Unsuffer Me
Nick Drake and Gabrielle Drake	All My Trials [Traditional]

Comment:

Most creative mash-up of the year goes to Girl Talk, hands down.

One 2007 release that really spoke to me was the Nick Drake collection "Family Tree." It's a clutch of home recordings from before his first album, and members of his family accompany him on some of the songs, including "All My Trials," in which he duets with his sister. The lo-fi nature heightens the intimacy of the songs, and the fact he's primarily singing other people's songs provides insight into his influences and how he interprets others' work. I'm sure the fact that my family, too, had home recording sessions when I was young heightened my fondness for this collection, but it's really a touching CD.

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