Trekky Records Best of 2007

Happy New Years everyone! To send off 2007 and usher in the new year, we have compiled some of our favorite records released this year. Check it:
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Jesse Ainslie (Barghest)

R Kelly- “Double Up”
Virgin Forest- “Songs From Virgin Forest”
Deer Tick- “War Elephant”
Earth- “Hibernaculum”
Neil Young- “Live at Massey Hall 1971”
St. Vincent- “Marry Me”
Phosphorescent- “Pride”
Karen Dalton- “Cotton-Eyed Joe: The Loop Tapes/Live in Boulder 1962”
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Martin Anderson (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

01. Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
02. The Avett Brothers- “Emotionalism”
03. Band of Horses- “Cease to Begin”
04. Spoon- “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
05. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
06. Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
07. Castanets- “In the Vines”
08. Animal Collective- “Strawberry Jam”
09. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
10. Kevin Drew- “Spirit If…”
11. Bruce Springsteen- “Magic”
12. Megafaun- “Bury the Square”
13. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
14. Feist- “The Reminder”
15. Ryan Adams- “Easy Tiger”
16. Annuals- "Frelen Mas" EP
17. Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
18. Blitzen Trapper- “Wild Mountain Nation”
19. Hammer No More the Fingers- “s/t”
20. Grizzly Bear- “Friend” EP
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Clare Connolly (Auxiliary House)

01. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
02. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
03. Animal Collective- “Strawberry Jam”
04. Caribou- “Andorra”
05. Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
06. White Williams- “Smoke”
07. Feist- “The Reminder”
08. Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
09. Six Parts Seven- “Casually Smashed to Pieces”
10. Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
11. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
12. Enon- “Gas Geysers... Carbon Clouds”
13. Georgie James- “Places”
14. Les Savy Fav- “Let's Stay Friends”
15. The Sea and Cake- “Everybody”
16. Blonde Redhead- “23”
17. Jose Gonzalez- “In Our Nature”
18. Of Montreal- “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer?”
19. Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
20. Akron/Family- “Love is Simple”
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Deez (Endless Mic)

The Rosebuds- “Night of the Furies”
Chromatics- “Night Drive”
Aesop Rock- “None Shall Pass”
50 Cent- “Curtis”
Redman- “Red Gone Wild”
Snax- “Love Pollution” (UK Edition came out in 06 but whatever)
Prince- “Planet Earth”
D'Angelo- “YODA: Monarch of Neo-Soul”
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Will J. Hackney (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

01. Of Montreal- “Hissing Fauna, Are You the Detroyer?”
02. The Avett Brothers- “Emotionalism”
03. Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
04. Bjork- “Volta”
05. David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
06. Feist- “The Reminder”
07. Spoon- “Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga”
08. Elliott Smith- “New Moon”
09. Kanye West- “Graduation”
10. Phosphorescent- “Pride”
11. The Arcade Fire- “Neon Bible”
12. Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
13. Battles- “Mirrored”
14. Les Savy Fav- “Let's Stay Friends”
15. Panda Bear- “Person Pitch”
16. The Apples in Stereo- “New Magnetic Wonder”
17. Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
18. Bill Callahan- “Woke on a Whaleheart”
19. Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons- “Where's the Freedom?”
20. Castanets- “In the Vines”
21. Blitzen Trapper- “Wild Mountain Nation”
22. The Microphones- “Don't Smoke/Get Off the Internet”
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Josh Kimbrough (Butterflies)

The Sea and Cake- “Everybody”
Maritime- “Heresy and the Hotel Choir”
Joe Norkus- “Livin in the Wrong Times”
The For Carnation- “Promised Works”
Adam Thorn and the Top Buttons- “Where's the Freedom?”
Health- “Where you From?”
David Karsten Daniels- “Sharp Teeth”
Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
Joanna Newsom- “Joanna Newsom & the Ys Street Band”
People Dick- “Cock Uh Doodle Doo”
Barghest- “Thanateros”
Endless Mic- “Baby Geniuses”
Hammer No More the Fingers- “s/t”
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Emma Nadeau (Trekky Management, Auxiliary House)

Band of Horses- “Cease to Begin”
Beirut- “The Flying Club Cup”
Bowerbirds- “Hymns for a Dark Horse”
Endless Mic- “Baby Geniuses”
Feist- “The Reminder”
Lost in the Trees- “Time Taunts Me”
Menomena- “Friend and Foe”
PJ Harvey- “White Chalk”
Un Deux Trois- “Lovers”
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Joe Norkus (Embarrassing Fruits, Trekky Graphic Design)

Robert Pollard- “Normal Happiness”
David Kilgore- “The Far Now”
Thurston Moore- “Trees Outside the Academy”
Marmoset- “Florist Fired”
Castanets- “In the Vines”
Dinosaur Jr.- “The Far Now”
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Ari Picker (Lost in the Trees)

Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
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Stephen Tunnell (Vibrant Green)

Radiohead- “In Rainbows”
PJ Harvey- “White Chalk”
Ryan Adams- “Easy Tiger”
Wilco- “Sky Blue Sky”
Jens Lekman- “Night Falls Over Kortedala”
The National- “Boxer”
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See you in 2008!

love,

Trekky Records

Wonderful Press for The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra!

In case you didn't know, The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra is a 20+ symphonic Christmas band made up of members of The Never, Lost in the Trees, Auxiliary House, Embarrassing Fruits, Butterflies and Vibrant Green. They've gotten some press for their band and their big event "Christmas at the Cradle" (December 19 @ Cat's Cradle in Carrboro, NC) which features Christmas music from:

The Trekky Yuletide Orchestra
Portastatic
Ivan Rosebud (of The Rosebuds)
Annuals
The Moaners
Midtown Dickens
I Was Totally Destroying It
Schooner
Hammer No More the Fingers
Robo Sapien
Sweater Weather
Hosted by Billy Sugarfix

Here's links for all of the wonderful press!

Pitchfork Media
The Independent
The News & Observer
The Herald Sun
The Daily Tar Heel