DiScussion: What are your top 8 albums of '08?

Rabbit Habits

Shearwater - Rook
The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
Portishead - Third
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing

1. TV On The Radio – Dear Science
2. Deerhunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
3. KanYe West -808s & Heartbreak
4. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
5. Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
6. Why? – Alopecia
7. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now, Youngster.../ Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
8. No Age - Nouns

1. Johnny Flynn - A Larum
2. Why? - Alopecia
3. Errors - It's Not Something But It Is Like Whatever
4. volcano! - Paperwork
5. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
6. Shit 'n' Shine - Kuss Mich Meine Leibe
7. Los Campesinos! We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (OK IT'S NOT A FUCKING ALBUM BUT IT'S GOING IN MY FUCKING LIST)
8. Koushik - Out my Window

1. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
2. Air France - No Way Down EP
3. Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
4. TV on the Radio - Dear Science
5. Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
6. Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
7. Tallest Man on Earth - Shallow Graves
8. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel

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At the top of my list it's a big ol' fight between: Flying Lotus, Deerhunter, 2562 & Starkey. I'm not sure which is top to be honest but thats ok it's not a race.

2. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
3. Women - Women [I KNOW THIS IS CHEATING AS IT'S NOT OUT IN UK TIL JANUARY BUT I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO IT NON-STOP FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS AND IT'S OUT IN THE US ALREADY, SO BLEH]
4. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (would DEFINITELY be lower down this list if it weren't for Weird Era Cont., which is the better album)
5. Parts & Labor - Receivers
6. Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
7. No Age - Nouns
8. Times New Viking - Rip It Off

do Foals really need two mentions?

The breeders - mountain battles

Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain
Beach House - Devotion
DeVotchKa - A Mad And Faithful Telling
Surrounded - The Nautilus Years
Why? - Alopecia

IN THAT ORDER

...these are done by star-ratings & plays on my iPod:

1) Frightened Rabbit, Midnight Organ Fight
2) Wolf Parade, At Mt Zoomer
3) Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
4) Fuck Buttons, Street Horrrsing
5) Shearwater, Rook
6) Fleet Foxes, Spire (is that actually its name?!)
7) Marnie Stern, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and so Is This and She Is It and He Is It and That is That
8) Nadja, Desire in Uneasiness

followed by: Sun Kil Moon, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Xiu Xiu, Super XX Man

with surprisingly low placings for: Bon Iver, Portishead, Okkervil

...these are done by star-ratings & plays on my iPod:

1) Frightened Rabbit, Midnight Organ Fight
2) Wolf Parade, At Mt Zoomer
3) Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
4) Fuck Buttons, Street Horrrsing
5) Shearwater, Rook
6) Fleet Foxes, Spire (is that actually its name?!)
7) Marnie Stern, This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and so Is This and She Is It and He Is It and That is That
8) Nadja, Desire in Uneasiness

followed by: Sun Kil Moon, Sigur Ros, Mogwai, Xiu Xiu, Super XX Man

with surprisingly low placings for: Bon Iver, Portishead, Okkervil

1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2. God is an Astronaut - S/T
3. The Mars Volta - The Goliath in Bedlam
4. Up-C Down-C Left-C Right-C ABC + Start - Embers
5. NIN - Ghosts I-IV
6. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
7. F*ck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
8. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours

Honorable mentions;
Youthmovies - Good Nature
Portishead - Third
Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Her Name Is Calla - The Heritage
Opeth - Watershed
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling

Disappointed when I saw them live though.

2. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
3. Anthony Green - Avalon
4. United Nations - United Nations
5. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
6. Vessels - White Fields And Open Devices
7. This Is Hell - Misfortunes
8. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst

So they must be the right ones...

Times New Viking - Rip It Off
Beach House - Devotion
Chad VanGaalen - Soft Airplane
Women - Women
No Age - Nouns
Jay Reatard - Matador Singles
The Bug - London Zoo
High Places - High Places
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

That's nine... but oh well... probably forgetting some really obvious things!

Portishead - Third
TV On The Radio - Dear Science
Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
volcano! - Paperwork
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Vessels - White Fields and Open Devices

I've not listened to the Gang Gang Dance enough yet, quite like Kasai Allstars, Portico Quartet (I think this is 2007 though) and a few others, but my mind has gone blank!

1. Down I Go - Tyrant
2. Adebisi Shank - This is an album of a band called Adebisi Shank
3. The Night Marchers - See You In Magic
4. Take A Worm For A Walk Week - The Monroe Transfer
5. Rocket From The Crypt - All Systems Go Vol. 3
6. Black Sheep Wall - I Am God Songs
7. Scream! Shout! Say Nothing - The Animals Still Run This City
8. Sons of Noel and Adrian - s/t

Chairlift - Does You Inspire You?
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Pattern Is Movement - All Together
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Atlas Sound - Let the Blind Lead Those That Cannot See
Women - Women
Deerhunter - Microcastles
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton

along with white denim, black mountain, fuck buttons, and some more I can't quite locate in my smoothie shaped brainbox.

1) Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2) TV on the Radio - Dear Science
3) DJ/Rupture - Uproot
4) Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light
5) No Age - Nouns
6) The Week That Was - The Week That Was
7) Portishead - Third
8) Subtle - ExitingARM

is an ace album hey?

I can't get enough of the Clouds track Elders and Atki2's Winter Buds. All of it just flows so well though, excelent mix.

1) tv on the radio - dear science
2) no age - nouns
3) bon iver - for emma
4) mgmt - oracular spectacular
5) elbow - the seldom seen kid
6) the last shadow puppets - the age of the understatement
7) conor oberst - s/t
8) johnny foreigner - waited up until it was light

Worth a mention : the black keys - attack and release, Death cab - Narrow Stairs, Bad seeds - dld, the hold steady - stay positive, panic at the disco - pretty. odd, kings of leon, the last shadow puppets, jaguar love

vessels (is fucking brilliant), drever, mckusker and woomble and kanye west, cut copy and elbow are definitely stand outs.

i know it wasn't released this year (or decade) but the best discovery has been eels- electroshock blues - fucking excellent album (thanks to the people on the boards that recommended me it).

felt like there was a lot of disappointments this year - errors, tv on the radio, even mogwai (although i did play it a lot around the release).

it's true. admit it.

1. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
2. Foals - Antidotes
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
6. TV On The Radio - Dear Science
7. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
8. Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto

as I can't imagine many people will put either of NIN's excellent contributions to this year's music in their lists, Reznor simply not being indie enough, maaaan (despite being indier than pretty much everyone else through his actions).

Secondly, the year's not over. Why do we consistently make these premature lists? Stuff is still being released and I know for a fact my list as it stands would change by New Year's day - there's two albums I haven't heard yet that I'm sure will make the list - Johann Johannson's 'Fordlandia' and Remember Remember's 'Remember Remember' are on my Christmas wishlist.

Still, let's have a go. My #1 will likely stay the same, though.

1. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
2. Jamie Lidell - JIM
3. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
4. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!
5. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
6. Errors - It's Not Something But it is Like Whatever
7. Mogwai - Hawk is Howling
8. NIN - The Slip

Good year for music, loads missing off the (well, short) list, including Lambchop, Hot Chip, Sigur Ros, Death Cab for Cutie...

M83 and Wild Beasts and Elbow instead of The Kills, Mystery Jets, and Youthmovies. Fucker.

I found myself a little underwhelmed by Burial (although this is undoubtedly the result of inorganic expectations) but Uproot provides such a broad spectrum of atmosphere that its appeal would surely be universal given the right coverage.

Everyone's pretending to like it. Why else would there be near universal acclaim for an album that YOU don't like?

1) Why?- Alopecia
2) Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill
3) The Notwist- The Devil You + Me
4) Tv On The Radio- Dear Science
5) No Age- Nouns
6) Hauschka- Ferndorf
7) Deerhunter- Microcastles
8) Frightened Rabbit- The Midnight Organ Fight

, it only sounds like will young on one song! but i just can't get into it and i don't understand the acclaim because it doesn't bring anything exciting to the table - it feels throw away - no sense of emotion or passion and it's not exactly heavy on melody either. just seems weird it's the same band that wrote wolf like me, blues from down here etc. i really wanted to like it - i don't download albums, so i take it disappointment more personally that i probably should because it's money that could be spent on better records.

1. Marnie Stern - This is It etc etc
2. Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
3. Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
4. Why? - Alopecia
5. Mount Eerie & Julie Doiron - Lost Wisdom
6. Rings - Black Habit
7. Cryptacize - Dig That Treasure
8. Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (probably, only listened to it once)

i'd be convinced that i was Sean. Replace them with Metronomy, and I'm there.

again with these albums that were criminally ignored:

age of rockets: hannah
mobius band: heaven
windsor for the derby: how we lost
notwist: the devil, you + me
black angels: directions to see a ghost
parts & labor: recievers
elbow: seldom seen kid
screaming tea party: golden blue

That or Fuck Buttons is probably my favourite album of the year. There have been quite a few OK albums, but I've mainly been listening to older stuff.

THE WAR ON DRUGS - WAGONWHEEL BLUES!

you know it's right.

fuckin' awesome!

Some amazing stuff obv, some underwhelming.

My favourite release has been You, Me and the Mountain by Maps and Atlases but that's an ep.

Best albums:
1. Deerhunter
2. Lemuria
3. Bon Iver
4. The Dodos
5. Algernon Cadwallader
6. Frightened Rabbit
7. Why?
8. Cadence Weapon

something like that anyway.

2. crystal castles
3. times new viking
4. no age
5. black lips
6. atlas sound
7. jay reatard
8. fall of troy

Anyway.

1) Earth - And The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull
2) Harvey Milk - Life...the best game in town
3) Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
4) Times New Viking - Rip it Off
5) Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
6) Sic Alps - US Ez
7) The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
8) Portishead - Third

Here's mine,
1)The Cure - 4:13 Dream
2)Foals - Antidotes
3)Bloc Party - Intimacy
4)The Whip - X Marks Destination
5)Metallica - Death Magnetic
6)The Music - Strength in Numbers
7)The Killers - Day and Age
8)Does It Offend You, Yeah - You Have No Idea What You Are Getting Yourself Into

1.Frightened Rabbit
2.Johnny Foreigner
3.Dananananaykroyd (if that counts)
4.Los Campesinos (WABWAD rather than Youngster)
5.Hot Club de Paris
6.The Mae shi
7.Late of the Pier
8.War on Drugs

This list is so DiS I may have to go kill myself (However I did discover Frightened Rabbit Summer '07, indie points please)

honorable mentions - British Sea Power, Youthmovies, Blood Red Shoes, Death Cab, Vampire Weekend, Panic at the Disco and I've actually been really enjoying that airbourne toxic event album after the article that was on here and loads of others that I can't remember

1. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
2. Miss Kittin - Bat Box
3. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
4. White Denim - Workout Holiday
5. Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
6. Metallica - Death Magnetic
7. The Black Keys - Attack and Release
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig Lazarus, Dig

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Ladyhawk - Shots
3. The Notwist - The Devil, You + Me
4. Parts and Labor - Receivers
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle
6. Portishead - Third
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
8. Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground

Mt. Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Oren Ambarchi - In the Pendulums Embrace
Boduf Songs- How Shadows Chase the Balance
Bon Iver - Forever Emma...
Algernon Cadwallader
Lite Phantasia
Dionagah - QHNNNL
Horse Feathers - House With No Name

+ You Me & the Mountain by Maps and Atlases

I'm only just realising I haven't listened to enough albums all the way through this year. And also that my favourite albums this year (Moffat's I Can Hear.... The Field, Burial, Adam Gnade) aren't even from this year! despite this:

George Pringle - Poor EP Poor EP Without a Name (an EP)
Santogold - Santogold
The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby
Why? - Alopecia
The Teenagers - Reality Check
David Bowie - Low (I told you I've been slack). best wishes all. j

it makes me really happy that the editor of such a well-respected music forum would pick Cut/Copy as his favourite album for the year. It's a little bit surprising though, seeing as it has lost out heavily here to our other current indie/dance export, The Presets. But In Ghost Colours is a much better album, i agree.

I would post my top 8, but i haven't compiled it yet

1. Why? - Alopecia
2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
3. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
4. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
5. Islands - Arm's Way
6. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - Heartcore
7. Joan As Police Woman - To Survive
8. Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us

Leaving out Laura Marling, Portishead, Metronomy, Lykke Li, M83, Foals, No Age, Shearwater, Conor Oberst's s/t, The Acorn, Hercules & Love Affair, The Dodos The War On Drugs, Black Mountain, Lovvers, Crystal Castles, Wild Beasts, Mirah's rarities...more, I'm sure.

In conclusion then, 2008: still pretty sweet.

2. Why? - Alopecia
3. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
4. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
5. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
6. Portishead - Third
7. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
8. Midnight Juggernauts - Dystopia
9. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
10. El Guincho - Alegranza (is that '08?)

1. Deerhunter - Microcastles/Weird Era Continued
2. Portishead - Third
3. M83 - Saturdays=Youth
4. The Walkmen - You & Me
5. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
6. TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
7. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
8. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers

Kanye, Lykke Li, Horse Feathers, Air France, School of Seven Bells, Cut Copy, Amadou & Mariam. They all came very close.

Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You
Cats In Paris - Courtcase 2000
Keyboard Choir - Mizen Head
Fuck Buttons - Street horrrrrssssiiiiiiing
Beach House - Devotion
Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything
Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements
Marnie Stern - This is it...

Fuck.

Late Of The Pier – Fantasy Black Channel
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Ladyhawke – Ladyhawke
Friendly Fires – Friendly Fires
Metronomy – Nights Out
Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
Lykke Li – Youth Novel
Portishead – Third

And the token honourable mentions to British Sea Power, Crystal Castles, Goldfrapp, Foals, Long Blondes and Fleet Foxes.

8 Deerhunter - Microcastles
7 R.E.M. - Accelerate
6 Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
5 The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
4 Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
3 The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
2 Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
1 Why? - Alopecia

The others in no order...

Torche - Meanderthal
Foals - Antidotes
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
TV on the Radio - Dear Science
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Neon Neon - Stainless Style

in no particular order:
8. Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
7. Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
6. Hjaltalin - Sleepdrunk Sessions
5. The Envy Corps - Dwell
4. The Weakerthans - Reunion Tour
3. Amadou and Mariam - Welcome to Mali
2. Kyte - Kyte
1. The Acorn - Glory Hope Mountain

2. American Devil Songs (1920s - 1950s) - VARIOUS
3. I worked on the ships - BALLBOY
4. The Hungry Saw - TINDERSTICKS
5. Clipse presents The Re-Up Gang
6. El Ray - THE WEDDING PRESENT
7. Live at the Heeley Institute, Sheffield - MV/VV
8. Sixes and Sevens - ADAM GREEN

1. TVOTR Dear Science
2. Black Mountain In The Future
3. Santogold Santogold
4. David Holmes Holy Pictures
5. Beck Modern Guilt

6. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
7. Fuck Buttons Street Horssing
8. Crystal Castles s/t

just out of shot:
Portishead Third
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Nick Cave Dig Lazarus Dig
Bon Iver For Emma

Torche
Dead Meadow
TVOTR
Cut Copy
Johhny Foriegner
No age
Titus Andronicus
Wooden Shjips - Vol1

Just 8? There've been so many great albums this year! I am going to defy your rules and go for 10.

Devotion by Beach House
Field Manual by Chris Walla
In Ear Park by Department Of Eagles
The Hollow Of Morning by Gemma Hayes
Some Racing, Some Stopping by Headlights
Trading Water For Air by James Yiull
Volume One by She & Him
Starf**ker by Starf**ker
Oceans Will Rise by The Stills
Elephant Shell by Tokyo Police Club

This means I had to leave out excellent albums by Brett Anderson, Crystal Castles, Guns N' Roses, Lykke Li, M83, Mercury Rev, Nada Surf, REM and The Weepies. DAMN YOU.

late of the pier-fantasy black channel

I didn't include Bon Iver as it came out in 2007 over here.

Thalia Zedek Band-Liars and Prayers
Bottomless Pit-Hammer of the Gods
Frida Hyvonen-Silence is Wild
The New Year-The New Year
American Werewolf Acedemy-Tricertops

fuck buttons
fleet foxes
deerhunter
foals
no age
TVoTR
yoofmovies

LOS CAMPESINOS - the 2nd one
WHY?
JOFO
FRIGHTENED RABBIT
ELLE MILANO
FUCKED UP
BRITISH SEA POWER

Hurrah, that's a great album. Cruelly ignored outside Ireland. It's in my top 20.

1.Dear Science - TVOTR
2.Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
3.Elephant Shell - Tokyo Police Club
4.Intimacy - Bloc Party
5.Vampire Weekend - S/T
6.I Want To Know That There Is Always Hope - I Was A Cub Scout
7.Fantasy Black Channel - Late of The Pier
8.Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
9.Alopecia - Why?
10.Bedlam In Goliath - The Mars Volta

Followed by: Microcastle, Those Dancing Days, Skeletal Lamping (All Require More Listens).

1. why - alopecia
2. asmz - 13 blues for 13 moons 9hated it when i first heard it)
3. high dependecy unit - metamathics
4. fuck buttons - street horsssing (also hated this at first)
5. pissed jeans - hope for men (is this 2008?)
6. young widows - old wounds
7. harvey milk - life the best game in town
8. wino - a bottle of pills with a bullet chaser
9. deerhunter - microcastles
10. no age - nouns

hon mentions...bvon iver, final, tim hecker & aidan baker, nadja, belong, earth, mogwai, bonnie prince billy (good but he has done much better), russian circles, fucked up, nadja grails...most overrated - torch - meanderthal no actually even more overrated the horrible pap that is fleet foxes and i'm seeing them open for isis this week...oh and shearwater - rook sounded great atv first but faded fast, conor obersts was a bit patchy too....and tvotr suck grnerally so i had the pleasure of ruling that a bad album without even listening to it based on the shiteness of return to cookie mountain...oh and track title of the year has to go to harvey milks - a maelstrom of bad decisions...have yet to listen to the jesu split/s and the broadrick/aaron turner side project grey machine has goodness written all over it....

1.Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
2.Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
3. Rural Alberta Advantage - Hometowns
4. Bon Iver - For Emma
5. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
6. Foals - Antidotes
7. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ
8. TV On Radio - Dear Science

Just Missing: Hold Steady, Marching Band, Dodos, Coldplay

Bring It On

Not sure about order as it changes on a regular basis, but as it stands...

Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Why? - Alopecia
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up Til It Was Light
Shield Your Eyes - Shield Your Eyes
Abe Vigoda - Skeleton
Frank Turner - Love Ire and Song

There's about 10 amazing records I've forgotten or missed out like Down I Go, The Bug, Bon Iver/HEALTH (both technically last year but released in UK this year), Portishhead etc. I could go on for ages.

2. Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
3. The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath
4. Protest The Hero - Fortress
5. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
6. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH
7. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
8. The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean & The Sun

1) Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
2) Polysics - We Ate The Machine
3) Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
4) Agaskodo Teliverek - Psycho Goulash
5) Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
6) Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
7) TV On The Radio - Dear Science
8) Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna

1. Youthmovies - Good Nature
2. Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley band
3. Rolo Tomassi - Hysterics
4. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing
5. Forward, Russia! - Life Processes
6. Times New Viking - Rip It Off
7. Jaguar Love - Take Me to the Sea
8. Vivian Girls

I've forgotten loads I reckon, but love all the above!

1. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
2. Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna
3. Portishead - Third
4. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
5. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
6. Simon Bookish - Everything/Everything
7. Neon Neon - Stainless Style
8. TV on the Radio - Dear Science

and just 4 fun, here's my next 8:

9. Wire - Object 47
10. Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
11. Bauhaus - Go Away White
12. These New Puritains - Beat Pyramid
13. The Bug - London Zoo
14. Saul Williams - The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
15. David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
16. Beck - Modern Guilt

The Breeders - Mountain Battles
Earth - The Bees Made Honey...
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Pattern Is Movement - All Together
Sun Kil Moon April - April
Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace
Times New Viking - Rip It Off

Plus also the two that I released, Mock Orange - Captain Love and Applicants - Life In The Bus Lane. Ace, obvs.

1. Alopecia by WHY?
2. Santogold by Santogold
3. Saturdays=Youth by M83
4. Flight of the Conchords by Flight of the Conchords
5. Pretty.Odd. by Panic at the Disco
6. In Ghost Colours by Cut Copy
7. Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
8. Fleet Foxes by Fleet Foxes

So many good self-titled albums this year!! :)

Ones I hated leaving out were For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver, Third by Portishead, 19 by Adele, Fantasy Black Channel by Late of the Pier, A Mad and Faithful Telling by DeVotchKa, Crystal Castles' s/t album and Offend Maggie by Deerhoof.

BUT, IF IT COUNTS, THE HANDS-DOWN BEST ALBUM OF 2008 WAS...

The Sound of the Smiths by The Smiths.