Best 40 albums of 2008
Posted by: Niels Guénec on: December 28, 2008
The year is over, the four seasons has passed. Here’s a look back upon the music that brought us through; onto the other side.
The ones we love, the ones we forgot about, the ones we shared together over a drink and the ones we haven’t really understood yet. It was hard to choose, but here they are: The 40 best records of 2008. Don’t mind the particular placement of the albums. Some are incomparable – this strict order doesn’t really make sense.
01. Fleet Foxes ‘Fleet Foxes’
02. Foals ‘Antidotes’
03. Cut Copy ‘In Ghost Colors’
04. The Walkmen ‘You & Me’
05. Deerhunter ‘Microcastle’
06. Late of the Pier ‘Fantasy Black Channel’
07. Born Ruffians ‘Red, Yellow & Blue’
08. The Kills ‘Midnight Boom’
09. Chad Vangaalen ‘Soft Airplane’
10. Friendly Fires ‘Friendly Fires’
11. Tokyo Police Club ‘Elephant Shell’
12. Shearwater ‘Rook’
13. Hot Chip ‘Made in the Dark’
14. Vampire Weekend ‘Vampire Weekend’
15. Crystal Castles ‘Crystal Castles’
16. Kings of Leon ‘Only By the Night’
17. Portishead ‘Third’
18. MGMT ‘Oracular Spectacular’
19. Bon Iver ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’
20. Frightened Rabbit ‘Midnight Organ Fight’
21. Bloc Party ‘Intimacy’
22. Veto ‘Crushing Digits’
23. Glasvegas ‘Glasvegas’
24. Wild Beasts ‘Limbo Panto’
25. Wolf Parade ‘At Mount Zoomer’
26. The Young Knives ‘Superabundance’
27. Sigur Ròs ‘Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust’
28. Tapes n’ Tapes ‘Walk It Off’
29. Little Joy ‘Little Joy’
30. Headlights ‘Some Racing, Some Stopping’
31. Los Campesinos! ‘We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed’
32. Dungen ‘4′
33. Lambchop ‘(OH) ohio’
34. Land of Talk ‘Some Are Lakes’
35. Eagles of Death Metal ‘Heart On’
36. Fuck Buttons ‘Street Horrrsing’
37. The Mae Shi ‘HLLLYH’
38. The Last Shadow Puppets ‘The Age of the Understatement’
39. Department of Eagles ‘In Ear Park’
40. The Futureheads ‘This Is Not the World’
