Best of 2008
Thursday, January 29th, 2009This list has taken much longer than expected. There were a bunch of albums that I liked in 2008, but I feel that this is pretty comprehensive, but the ones that made this list I truly liked from beginning to end…in my opinion solid records.
For example, I really loved the No Kids record (Come into My House), but I was much more into the R&B songs versus the world music songs…and for that reason it didn’t make my list.
Some things got left off because I didn’t get them til early 2009 (examples are Wavves- s/t and Castanets – City of Refuge), but somethings that I didn’t get into until the end of 2008 shot up to the top ten (mainly Grouper). I was going to do a top 10, but I have been into the blogging and I wanted to do something bigger (also see my best of 7″ and 12″ singles of 2008).
Link Navigation tips: artist’s name= artist’s website (or about the band if I couldn’t find a website)album name= a place to buy the album record label= record label’s website
Welcome to my Top 25 albums of 2008:
25. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls (Mauled By Tigers Records / In the Red)
24. Eat Skull- Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
23. Abe Vigoda – Skeleton (Post Present Medium)
22. Desolation Wilderness- White Light Strobing (K Records)
21. Matmos – Supreme Balloon (Matador)
20. Arthur Russell – Love is Overtaking Me (Audika)
19. The Dodos – Visitor (French Kiss)
18. Xiu Xiu – Women as Lovers (Kill Rock Stars)
17. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything that Happens Will Happen Today (self released)
16. Beach House – Devotion (Carpark)
15. The Magnetic Fields- Distortion (Nonesuch)
14. Titus Andronicus – Airing of Grievances (Troubleman Unlimited)
13. Bonnie Prince Billy- Lie Down in The Light (Drag City)
12. Lord Dog Bird - s/t (Jagjaguwar)
11. Burning Star Core – Challenger (Hospital Productions/ Plastic Records)
9. Thee Oh Sees- The Master’s Bedroom is Worth Spending a Night In (Tom Lab)
8. Times NewViking- Rip it Off (Matador)
7. High Places- High Places (Thrill Jockey)
6. Karl Blau- Nature’s Got Away / AM (K Records / Whistler)
5. Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
4. Deerhunter – Microcastle / Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
3. Mount Eerie- Dawn / Lost Wisdom / Black Wooden Ceiling Opening (P.W. Elverum and Suns)
2. The Music Tapes- For Clouds and Tornadoes (Merge)
1. Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now, Youngster / We are Beautiful, We are Doomed (Wichita/Arts & Crafts)
