2008 Albums of the Year

Can't believe its that time of year again and the music mags have already put out their Album of the year lists. Anyhow here's mine.


1. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
3. Elbow, the Seldom Seen Kid
4. Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
5. Yeasayer, All Hour Cymbals
6. Sigur Rós : Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
7. Joan as Policewoman, To Survive,
8. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
9. The Jimmy Cake, Spectre & Crown
10. Martha Wainwright, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too

11. Portishead, Third
12. Laura Marling, Alas I Cannot Swim
13. Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
14. Deerhunter, Microcastle
15. Jape, Ritual
16. Ra Ra Riot, The Rhumb Line
17. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazarus! Dig!
18. Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt 1: 4th World War
19. Lisa Hannigan, Sea Sew
20. Lykke Li, Youth Novels

21. Keane, Perfect Symmetry
22. The Verve, Forth
23. Kings of Leon, Only By the Night
24. Cat Power, Jukebox
25. Santogold, Santogold
26. The Dodos, Visiter
27. Coldplay, Viva La Vida
28. She & Him, Volume One
29. The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely
30. Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair

31. Foals, Antidotes
32. The Killers, Day & Age
33. Peter Broderick, Home
34. Peter Broderick, Float
35. Gemma Hayes, The Hollow of the Morning
36. Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
37. Vetiver, A Thing of the Past
38. Amadou and Miriam, Welcome to Mali
39. Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, Cardinology
40. Chequerboard, Penny Black

41. The Roots, Rising Down,
42. My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges
43. R.E.M., Accelerate
44. Emmylou Harris, All I Intended to Be
45. The Breeders, Mountain Battles
46. Tapes’n’Tapes, Walk it Off
47. Ray Lamontagne, Gossip in the Forest
48. The Last Shadow Puppets, The Last Shadow Puppets
49. Beck, Modern Guilt
50. Oasis, Dig Out Your Soul

Best of 2008 to July

3 Five star bonafide truly great albums destined to be regarded as absolute classics by a lot of folk in the years to come

Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago

7 flirting with future classic status

Elbow, the Seldom Seen Kid
The Jimmy Cake, Spectre & Crown
Sigur Rós : Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Goldfrapp, Seventh Tree
Portishead, Third
Jape, Ritual
Erykah Badu, New Amerykah, Pt 1: 4th World War


5 consistently excellent albums

Lykke Li, Youth Novels
Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Dig Lazarus! Dig!
Laura Marling, Alas I Cannot Swim
Martha Wainwright, I Know You’re Married But I’ve Got Feelings Too


2 Quality albums

Cat Power, Jukebox
The Raconteurs, Consolers of the Lonely

7 intermittently excellent efforts

Santogold, Santogold
Hercules and Love Affair, Hercules and Love Affair
Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
Beck, Modern Guilt
The Dodos, Visiter
Gemma Hayes, The Hollow of the Morning
My Morning Jacket, Evil Urges

7 good, solid but not amazing albums

Coldplay, Viva La Vida
R.E.M., Accelerate
Foals, Antidotes
The Breeders, Mountain Battles
Tapes’n’Tapes, Walk it Off
The Roots, Rising Down,
Vetiver, A Thing of the Past