The Best Albums Of 2008

Top 50

1. Dig!!! Lazarus dig!!! - NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS
2. Dear science - TV ON THE RADIO
3. Antidotes - FOALS
4. Neptune - THE DUKE SPIRIT
5. Crystal Castles - CRYSTAL CASTLES
6. Midnight boom - THE KILLS
7. Consolers of the lonely - THE RACONTEURS
8. Saturnalia - THE GUTTER TWINS
9. Third - PORTISHEAD
10. Beat pyramid - THESE NEW PURITANS
11. Oracular spectacular - MGMT
12. A certain feeling - BODIES OF WATER
13. Songs in A&E - SPIRITUALIZED
14. Loyalty to loyalty - COLD WAR KIDS
15. Stay positive - THE HOLD STEADY
16. Box of secrets - BLOOD RED SHOES
17. Vampire Weekend - VAMPIRE WEEKEND
18. Conor Oberst - CONOR OBERST
19. Intimacy - BLOC PARTY
20. Santogold - SANTOGOLD
21. Velocifero - LADYTRON
22. Re-arrange us - MATES OF STATE
23. Imperial wax solvent - THE FALL
24. Beautiful future - PRIMAL SCREAM
25. Saint Dymphna - GANG GANG DANCE
26. Donkey - CSS
27. Partie traumatic - BLACK KIDS
28. The bake sale - THE COOL KIDS
29. Narrow stairs - DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
30. Lookout mountain, lookout sea - SILVER JEWS
31. Fleet Foxes - FLEET FOXES
32. Only by the night - KINGS OF LEON
33. Accelerate - R.E.M.
34. Microcastle / Weird era continued - DEERHUNTER
35. Alpinisms - SCHOOL OF SEVEN BELLS
36. Something for all of us… - BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE PRESENTS: BRENDAN CANNING
37. Object 47 - WIRE
38. Walk it off - TAPES 'N TAPES
39. The chemistry of common life - FUCKED UP
40. In the future - BLACK MOUNTAIN
41. The lucky ones - MUDHONEY
42. Provisions - GIANT SAND
43. Keep your eyes ahead - THE HELIO SEQUENCE
44. The age of the understatement - THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS
45. Elephant shell - TOKYO POLICE CLUB
46. Lightbulbs - FUJIYA & MIYAGI
47. London zoo - THE BUG
48. Modern guilt - BECK
49. Real emotional trash - STEPHEN MALKMUS & THE JICKS
50. Alight of night - CRYSTAL STILTS

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Take it personally - THE STARLITE DESPERATION, Workout holiday - WHITE DENIM, Secret Machines - SECRET MACHINES, Evil urges - MY MORNING JACKET, Skeletal lamping - OF MONTREAL, Jukebox - CAT POWER, Acid tongue - JENNY LEWIS, Chemical chords - STEREOLAB, At Mount Zoomer - WOLF PARADE, The stand ins - OKKERVIL RIVER, O - TILLY AND THE WALL, Some are lakes - LAND OF TALK, Get awkward - BE YOUR OWN PET, Nouns - NO AGE, Bits - OXFORD COLLAPSE, Vivian Girls - VIVIAN GIRLS, Fortress ’round my heart - IDA MARIA, Alopecia - WHY?, Free gold! - INDIAN JEWELRY, High Places - HIGH PLACES, The Week That Was - THE WEEK THAT WAS, Twenty one - MYSTERY JETS, Friendly Fires - FRIENDLY FIRES, Forth - THE VERVE, Snowflake midnight - MERCURY REV, Directions to see a ghost - THE BLACK ANGELS, Attack and release - THE BLACK KEYS, This gift - SONS AND DAUGHTERS, Glasvegas - GLASVEGAS, The golden age - AMERICAN MUSIC CLUB, Lie down in the light - BONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY, Carried to dust - CALEXICO, The golden hour - FIREWATER, Missiles - THE DEARS, District line - BOB MOULD, This is not the world - THE FUTUREHEADS, Mega breakfast - THE CHAP, Does you inspire you - CHAIRLIFT, Youth novels - LYKKE LI, Oh (Ohio) - LAMBCHOP, Sunday at Devil Dirt - ISOBEL CAMPBELL & MARK LANEGAN, Knowle West boy - TRICKY, Tha Carter III - LIL WAYNE, Made in the dark - HOT CHIP. Como te llama? - ALBERT HAMMOND JR., You & me - THE WALKMEN, Mountain battles - THE BREEDERS, Inherit - FREE KITTEN, Retribution Gospel Choir - RETRIBUTION GOSPEL CHOIR, Svn fngrs - BLACK FRANCIS, Do it! - CLINIC, Kensington Heights - CONSTANTINES, The evangelist - ROBERT FORSTER, Crossing Dragon Bridge - STEVE WYNN, Do you like rock music? - BRITISH SEA POWER, Off with their heads - KAISER CHIEFS, Day and age - THE KILLERS, Rascalize - THE RASCALS, Motion to rejoin - BRIGHTBLACK MORNING LIGHT, For Emma, forever ago - BON IVER, Los Angeles - FLYING LOTUS, Pro tools - GZA, The Bronx (III) - THE BRONX, Delayer - THE HEAVENLY STATES, Promises, promises - DIE! DIE! DIE!, Ladyhawke - LADYHAWKE, Red, yellow and blue - BORN RUFFIANS, Upbeat love - THREATMANTICS, Εl Rey - WEDDING PRESENT, 22 dreams - PAUL WELLER, Brighter than creation's dark - DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS, The '59 sound - THE GASLIGHT ANTHEM, Xs on your eyes - +/-, Street horrrsing - FUCK BUTTONS, In ghost colours - CUT COPY, Feed the animals - GIRL TALK, LP3 - RATATAT, The holy pictures - DAVID HOLMES, Dig out your soul - OASIS, You cross my path - THE CHARLATANS, The hungry saw - TINDERSTICKS, Couples - THE LONG BLONDES, The way we ride - FULTON LIGHTS, Ringer - FOUR TET, Fantasy black channel - LATE OF THE PIER, Cage The Elephant - CAGE THE ELEPHANT, We are beautiful, we are doomed - LOS CAMPESINOS!, Burnt out landscapes - THE MANHATTAN LOVE SUICIDES, A hundred things that keep me up at night - LOVE IS ALL, Waited up 'til it was light - JOHNNY FOREIGNER, Stainless style - NEON NEON, Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust - SIGUR ROS, 13 blues for thirteen moons - SILVER MT. ZION MEMORIAL ORCHESTRA AND TRA-LA-LA BAND, The hawk is howling - MOGWAI, Little death - PETE AND THE PIRATES, Falling off the Lavender Bridge - LIGHTSPEED CHAMPION, Alas I cannot swim - LAURA MARLING, No way down - AIR FRANCE, Rising down - THE ROOTS, When life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold - ATMOSPHERE, Rabbit hats - MAN MAN, Swimming - FRENCH KICKS, Black sheep - JULIAN COPE, How to walk away - JULIANA HATFIELD, Hymn & her - EARLIMART, Morning tide - THE LITTLE ONES, Moonwink - THE SPINTO BAND, Soft airplane - CHAD VANGAALEN, Forfeit / Fortune - CROOKED FINGERS, Preteen weaponry - ONEIDA, The rhumb line - RA RA RIOT, Bluebeard's rooms - DAVID CRONENBERG'S WIFE, The midnight organ fight - FRIGHTENED RABBIT, Now or heaven - THE BROKEN WEST, Cardinology - RYAN ADAMS AND THE CARDINALS, Everything that happens will happen today - BRIAN ENO & DAVID BYRNE, 4:13 Dream - THE CURE, The seldom seen kid - ELBOW, Luna - THE ALIENS, Disco - HEALTH, A land for renegades - ZOMBIE ZOMBIE, Repercussions - DISTANCE, The renaissance - Q-TIP, 808s and heartbreak - KANYE WEST, Hercules And Love Affair - HERCULES AND LOVE AFFAIR, Odd couple - GNARLS BARKLEY, Alegranza - EL GUINCHO, Nights out - METRONOMY, Saturdays = Youth - M83, Volume one - SHE & HIM, Furr - BLITZEN TRAPPER, Distortion - MAGNETIC FIELDS, Offend Maggie - DEERHOOF, Visiter - THE DODOS, Rook - SHEARWATER, Here with me - JENNIFER O'CONNOR, Oceans will rise - THE STILLS, Earth to The Dandy Warhols - THE DANDY WARHOLS, Sea lion - RUBY SUNS, Rest now, weary head! You will get well soon - GET WELL SOON, Avatar - MONIKA, Remember - THE FIERY FURNACES, Christmas on Mars - THE FLAMING LIPS