Ed Droste's Year-End Recap (and an Unexpected JoJo Cover)

-- Adam Lubitow from AfterElton.com

Ed Droste, the openly gay lead singer of Grizzly Bear, updated the band's blog with a recounting of how, for over a year (and for reasons known only to him), he’s been hounding band member Dan Rossen to record a cover of cheese-filled Top 40 hit 'Too Little Too Late’ by Jo Jo.

In honor of Ed’s 29th birthday last month, Dan finally delivered, and the song is included in the post. It’s a surprisingly straight-faced cover, and it’s pretty spectacular. Ed goes on to write a bit about the critical response to the recently released "Friend" EP, working with Feist for Grizzly Bear's next album, how his Thanksgiving went, and includes a few various MP3’s.

As a bonus, at the end of the post, Droste adds his picks for the best albums released in 2007. It looks to be a pretty solid list, though I’m a little distressed about the number I haven’t heard yet.

Check out Ed’s picks after the break.

1.  Dirty Projectors - Rise Above
2.  Radiohead - In Rainbows
3.  Deerhunter - Florescent Grey EP/Cryptograms
4.  Cass McCombs - Dropping the Writ
5.  Of Montreal - Hissing Fauna, Are You the Destroyer
6.  Foreign Born- On a Wing Now
7.  Feist - The Reminder
8.  Vampire Weekend - Blue CDR
9.  Beirut - Flying Club Cup
10. Papercuts- Can’t Go Back
11. Justice - †
12. Sleeping States - There the Open Spaces
13. Róisín Murphy - Overpowered
14. PJ Harvey - White Chalk
15. Yeasayer - All Hours Cymbals