This time, Alice opens up her heart and picks her album of the year, "Help Wanted Nights" by The Good Life.

When music writers publish their top albums lists every December, I guess they take into consideration issues such as innovation, the amount of influence album may have in the future or size of impact any album had on all music lovers out there.

I'm sure that assembling a list of top albums is not exactly an easy task, but somehow, even though there are thousands of album releases each year, and despite the fact that many criterions need to be accounted, still most lists suffer from an unfortunate resemblance to one another.

I bet most people explain it by wrongly assuming that some albums are "better" than others. The way I see it, music is not an exact science and therefore cannot be measured in terms of best or worst album. But hey, I ain't no party pooper, and the purple octopus ordered me to pick the best album this year, so as always, I obeyed.

There were many albums I liked in 2007, but the album of the year has to be the one by The Good Life.

Help Wanted Nights was released on Saddle Creek Records and it contains 10 beautiful songs that share the same lyric theme as they all talk about short term relationships, the kind that is most likely to end before they really evolve. Most songs are telling a story of an unequal relationship where one side is more interested and more caring than the other.

The former Good Life album, 'Album of the Year', was all about breakups and endings, and the current album feels almost like the next episode of the same series. I'd like to think both albums tell the story of the same man, which during 'Album of the Year', had gone through a terrible breakup, and now, on 'Help Wanted Nights', he is trying to find love again. Luckily for us, the guy is going in all wrong directions and there is constantly a sad feeling in the background.

The real story behind the album, as I read somewhere, is that it was actually written as a soundtrack for a screenplay Tim Kasher wrote. You see, this guy, the front man of the band, is so great with words that he can manufacture not only the most beautiful lyrics available but screenplays as well. So far there are no real plans for producing this screenplay, but if it will get produced eventually, I'm sure it'll be a great movie.

In the meantime, I highly recommend you to go out and buy yourself the album that made my year and let yourself get into a world where emotions are expressed in the best possible way.