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Best new album by a local artist (in the last year or so)

Andrew Bird, “Armchair Apocrypha” (Fat Possum)

Chicago’s beloved son returned this year with his mash-up with electronic artist Martin Dosh, a dark, scientific exercise that’s his best effort yet. Relying less on his stupefying violin and whistling skills and more on the atmospheric elements of his voice and guitar-playing, Bird’s masterpiece is an atom bomb of brooding, exhausting joy.




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Search Best of Chicago [2000-2007]

Best of Chicago 2007 was written by: Brian Hieggelke, Tom Lynch, Jamie Murnane, Michael Nagrant, Ray Pride

With additional contributions by: Deena Dasein, Molly Each, Jason Foumberg, Liz Haley, Mary Susan Littlepage, Michael Moreci, Nina Metz, Stephanie Ratanas, Elizabeth Seeskin, Duke Shin, John Thompson, James VonOsdol, Michael Weinstein

Photography: Audrey Cho
Model: Assia Likomanov, BriannaLynn Harstick, Laura Watson and Hamid Assian
Makeup and hair: Diane Arce and Jaclyn Scott








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