2008 In Music

A Silver Mt. Zion – 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness
Albert Hammond, Jr. – ¿Cómo Te Llama?
Alina Orlova – Laukinis šuo dingo
Alkaline Trio – Agony And Irony
Atlas Sound – Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See but Cannot Feel
Beat Konducta – Vol. 5: Dil Cosby Suite
Black Devil Disco Club – Eight Oh Eight
Black Mountain – In the Future
Blood on the Wall – Liferz
Cadence Weapon – Afterparty Babies
Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
Deerhunter – Microcastle
Earth – The Bees Made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Erykah Badu – New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)
Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords
Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
Fucked Up – The Chemistry of Common Life
The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
Genghis Tron – Board Up the House
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Jay Reatard – Matador Singles ’08
John Zorn – Filmworks XIX: The Rain Horse
John Zorn – The Dreamers
Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
Lindstrøm – Where You Go I Go Too
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Marnie Stern – This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
The Mountain Goats – Heretic Pride
No Age – Nouns
Portishead – Third
Q-Tip – The Renaissance
Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains – Sebastien Grainger & the Mountains
Tim And Eric – Awesome Record, Great Songs
Times New Viking – Rip It Off
Torche – Meanderthal
TV on the Radio – Dear Science

BAD

AIDS Wolf – Cities of Glass
Amp Live – Radiohead Rainydayz Remixes
Autechre – Quaristice
The B-52’s – Funplex
Black Kids – Partie Traumatic
Booka Shade – The Sun & The Neon Light
Brightblack Morning Light – Motion to Rejoin
Cut Copy – In Ghost Colours
Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Del tha Funkee Homosapien – Eleventh Hour
DJ Scotch Egg – Drumized
Does It Offend You, Yeah? – You Have No Idea What You’re Getting Yourself Into
Ellen Allien – SOOL
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
Gameboy/Gamegirl – Golden Ghetto Sex
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
Gnarls Barkley – The Odd Couple
Hadouken! – Music for an Accelerated Culture
Junkie XL – Booming Back at You
Mates of State – Re-Arrange Us
MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
Nas – Untitled
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
Noah and the Whale – Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
Ponytail – Ice Cream Spiritual
The Presets – Apocalypso
The Roots – Rising Down
Suffocate for Fuck Sake – Blazing Fires and Helicopters on the Front Page of the Newspaper. There’s a War Going On and I’m Marching in Heavy Boots.
The Teenagers – Reality Check
The Ting Tings – We Started Nothing
Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

NO OPINION / SO-SO

Beck – Modern Guilt
Bloc Party – Intimacy
Boris – Smile
Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
Neon Neon – Stainless Style
Ryan Adams & The Cardinals – Cardinology
Snoop Dogg – Ego Trippin’
Zach Hill – Astrological Straits