Top 10 Albums of 2008 · Dec 18, 07:13 PM
It took a lot of thinking, but my top 10 releases of the year are:
- Cloud Cult – Feel Good Ghosts
- The Twilight Sad – Here It Never Snowed. Afterwards It Did
- Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
- Common Market – Tobacco Road
- Shearwater – Rook
- Tricky – Knowle West Boy
- Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
- Wild Sweet Orange – We Have Cause to Be Uneasy
- Radiohead – In Rainbows (Bonus Disk)
- Byrne and Eno – Everything that Happens will Happen Today
The first eight are solid but I’m less sure about the last two. They were pretty much tied with a lot of other releases this year, including:
- Head Like a Kite – There is Loud Laughter Everywhere
- Wye Oak – If Children
- Live at KEXP, Vol. 4
- The Saturday Knights – Mingle
- Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
- Throw Me the Statue – Moonbeams
- Billy Bragg – Mr. Love and Justice
- Death Cab – Narrow Stairs
- R.E.M. – Accelerate
- Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
- David Karsten Daniels – Fear of Flying
And others. Overall a pretty good year for music.
