Tuesday, December 23, 2008

The 10 Best Albums of 2008 and more year end list fun

Because it's that time of year, time to look back and time to reflect. Here are the albums released in 2008 that I hold in the highest esteem.

Top 10:
1) Rook - Shearwater
2) Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3) Microcastle - Deerhunter
4) Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
5) Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
6) Dear Science - TV On The Radio
7) In Ghost Colours - Cut//Copy
8) Feed The Animals - Girl Talk
9) Distortion - The Magnetic Fields
10) Volume One - She & Him

Honourable Mention
:
At Mount Zoomer - Wolf Parade
Nouns - No Age
Skeletal Lamping -
Of Montreal
The Stand-Ins - Okkervil River
Third - Portishead

Most Over-Rated Albums:
Only By The Night - Kings Of Leon
Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends - Coldplay

And finally...
The Album I Made The Most Effort To Love To Absolutely No Avail:
Cardinology - Ryan Adams & The Cardinals

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