The Best Albums of 2008

listed alphabetically...


Peaking
Advisory Circle- Other Channels
The Alps- III (review)
Belong- Colorloss EP (review)
Thomas Brinkmann- When Horses Die
The Bug- London Zoo (review)
The Caretaker- Persistent Repetition of Phrases
Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours (review)
Fennesz- Black Sea
Fleet Foxes- Fleet Foxes/ Sun Giant EP
Grouper- Dragging a Dead Deer (review)
High Places- High Places (review)
Lindstrom- Where You Go I Go Too
Luomo- Convival
Matthew Hebert Big Band- There's Me and There's You (review)
Raglani- Of Sirens Born (review)


Penultimate
2562- Aerial
Acid Mothers Temple and the Cosmic Inferno-Journey into the Cosmic Inferno
Alan Licht and Aki Onda- Everydays (review)
Appleblim- Dubstep Allstars vol 6 (review)
Burning Star Core- Challenger
Cloudland Canyon- Lie in Light (review)
Dusk and Blackdown- Margins Music
Friendly Fires- Friendly Fires
M83- Saturdays=Youth
Rod Modell- Incense and Blacklight (review)
Orion Rigel Domisse- What I Want From You is Sweet (review)
Populous With Short Stories- Drawn in Basic (review)
Portishead- Third
Quiet Village- Silent Movie
Roll Deep- Return of the Big Money Sound
Squincy Jones- Nintendub
The Stranger- Bleaklow
Tobacco- Fucked Up Friends (review)
The War on Drugs- Wagonwheel Blues (review)
Willits and Sakamoto- Ocean Fire (review)


Retro
Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Don Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, and Sonny Murray- New York Ear and Eye Control
Gas- Nah Und Fern
A Guy Called Gerald- Black Secret Technology
The Lines- Memory Span/Flood Bank (review)
Loop- Fade Out
Monolake- Hongkong Remastered (review)
Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark- Dazzle Ships
Pluxus- Solid State (review)
Pole- 1 2 3 (review)
Soft Cell- Nonstop Erotic Cabaret
Steinski- What Does it All Mean? (review)
Univers Zero- 1313 (review)
Susumu Yokota- The Skintone COllection (review)