My Top Albums Of 2008

My Top Albums Of 2008:

1. The Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement [Vid]

2. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours [Vid]

3. Glasvegas - self-titled [Vid]

Runners-up (in alpha order):

Ryan Adams - Cardinology [Letterman: 1-2]

Delays - Everything's the Rush [Vid]

Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid [Vid]

Fleet Foxes - self-titled [Vid]

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead [Vid]

Keane - Perfect Symmetry [Vid]

Nada Surf - Lucky [Vid]

Honorable mentions (in alpha order):

• Air Traffic - Fractured Life [Vid]
• Black Kids - Partie Traumatic [Vid]
• Boy Kill Boy - Stars And The Sea [Vid]
• Coldplay - Viva La Vida/Prospekt's March [Vid]
• The Duke Spirit - Neptune [Vid]
• The Enemy - We'll Live and Die in These Towns [Vid]
• Neil Halstead - Oh! Mighty Engine [Vid]
• Longwave - Secrets Are Sinister [Vid]
• Low Vs Diamond - self-titled [EPK]
• My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges [Vid]
• Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off the Lavender Bridge [Vid]
• The Little Ones - Morning Tide [Vid]
• The Republic Tigers - Keep Color [Vid]
• The Rosebuds - Life Like [Vid]
• The Shore - Light Years [MP3]
• Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace [Vid]
• We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery [Vid]

Previous year-end lists:

• 2007: Ghosts, Thirteen Senses, Editors, The Twang, Travis, Manic Street Preachers, Shout Out Louds, Hard-Fi, The Rosebuds, Sea Wolf

• 2006: Mojave 3, Editors, Keane, The Hourly Radio, Mew, Midlake, Boy Kill Boy, Sean Lennon, Morrissey, Margot & The Nuclear So And So's

• 2005: Youth Group, British Sea Power, HAL, Athlete, Kent, Ed Harcourt, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Crimea, Embrace, Longview

Comments

[uwmryan]

This is a great list. Lost of stuff (including your #1 & #3) that I haven't even gotten to hear yet. Nice.

[woyo]

Nice list. I especially agree with Cut Copy.

I need to listen to more of that Keane album. On first listen it felt like a disappointment, but I need to listen to it again. Same with Delays.

[torr]

Keane and Delays are disappointments compared to their previous albums, but they're still better than most the other albums released this year.

I think it was a pretty weak year for music. Lots of "good" albums, but very few "great" albums.

[Pete]

I think The Last Shadow Puppets were a disappointment. There's a couple of killer tunes on the album but generally it's not up to Alex Turner's usual genius level.

The Seldom Seen Kid, however, is the best album of the 2000s.

I think album-wise this has been a very strong year. Glasvegas, Albert Hammond Jr., Damon Albarn's "Monkey", Oasis, Guillemots, MGMT, Supergrass... lots and lots of great LPs.

[woyo]

I felt Canada had strong showing this year with releases from bands like Plants and Animals, Born Ruffians and Wolf Parade. All three are in my top ten favourites of this year.

[Nona Yubiznes]

for my money, no album delivered as many knock-out punches as that Republic Tigers LP. And I was really surprised by how strong Ryan Adams' new one is. Yet overall, I gotta give it to Elbow, they continue their streak of platinum-quality releases, and even make Jarvis Cocker palatable!

Great picks, my only addition would be of the folk/pop variety - have you heard Priscilla Ahn's album "A Good Day"? It's bullet-proof, innovative and well-written (if a little warm and campfire cozy in places)

[Strass]

Good list! The new James album ("Hey Ma") is amazing...almost as good as "Seven" and better than "Laid" or anything since in my opinion. Also really like the debut Courteeners and Rifles albums...very British sounding. Paul Heaton's solo album is pleasantly surprising and I Am Kloot's album is very low-fi and very underrated.