Too many records, not enough ears; world too big, wallet too small; information sources too many, information receptors limited to a couple of failing eyes and an increasingly forgetty brain.  My excuse as to why certain undoubtedly very good records failed to ascend to the rarified heights of the review pages over here is most likely something along those lines.

I really should thank those who have passed recommendations my way whether in the comments, via the contact-box, through email, over a pint in the boozer, using Last FM, and also to those who manfully man all the countless blogs I have endeavoured to keep abreast of.  I’ve enjoyed your company. 

Here is a selection of some of those leftovers from 2007 that, with proper use of the locked-on hindsight application, probably should have done better than having been a plump bird flirting fluttering round the circumference of my radar screen.

• Christa Pfangen, Watch me Getting Back The End (Die Shachtel) listen
• Black Moth Super Rainbow, Dandelion Gum (Graveface) review by Simon Reynolds
• Giuseppi Ielasi, August (12k) listen
• Ricardo Villalobos, Fabric 36 (Fabric) listen
• Radiohead, In Rainbows (waste) review by Michael Henaghen at Angry Ape
• Sir Richard Bishop, While My Guitar Violently Bleeds (locust) review by Dez at Music Musings and Miscellany
• Tinariwen, Aman Iman: Water Of Life (Independiente) listen
• Cocorosie, The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn (Touch and Go) review by the milkman at themilkfactory
• Han Bennink, Amplified Trio (Treader) listen
• Von Sudenfed, Tromattic Reflexxions (Domino) review by Biggie Samuels at the BB Cage
• Fabio Orsi and Gianluca Becuzzi, The Stone Knows Everything (Digitalis) listen
• Aluk Todolo, Descension (Public Guilt) review by Julian Cope at Head Heritage