EINR: My Picks For Best Albums of 2008

Straight to the point. Minimalistic. That's all I have to give right now. See my previous posts as references as well (here).

2008, Best Albums of the Year:









1) Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago

2) The Walkmen – You & Me

3) Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes

4) J.Tillman – Long May You Run, J. Tillman/Minor Works/I Will Return. Kinda cheating with three albums, but they have really been hitting me hard. If you want happy go lucky, this is not for you. Trust me.

5) Calexico – Carried to Dust

6) Centro-Matic/South San Gabriel – Dual Hawks. This is the most recent addition, and it is possible that it should be higher, if that matters.

7) Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours

8) Girl Talk – Feed the Animals

9) Thao & The Get Down, Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All

10) Frightened Rabbit – Midnight Organ Fight

11) Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

12) Sun Kil Moon – April

12) Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed

13) The Wood Brothers – Loaded

Others that didn't make the list:

Portishead – Third

British Sea Power – Do You Like Rock Music?

The Black Keys – Attack & Release
The Broken West – Now or Heaven
Cold War Kids – Loyalty to Loyalty
M83 - Saturdays = Youth

Okkervil River – The Stand Ins

Mates of States – Re-Arrange Us
Silver Jews – Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Spiritualized – Songs in A&E
Wolf Parade – At Mount Zoomer
TV on the Radio – Weird Science
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Beck - Modern Guilt

Most disappointing album of the year:

My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

Memorable Shows from 2008:
03/02/08: Wilco – The Ryman, Nashville, TN
03/12/08: Seeing David Berman 'poetry reading' at a small art design college in Nashville. Does this count as a show?
05/09/08: Radiohead – Charlotte, NC
05/17/08: Ladyhawk – The End, Nashville, TN
10/01/08: The Walkmen – Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC
10/02/08: Andrew Bird – UNC Memorial Hall, Chapel Hill, NC
10/03/08: The Black Keys – Orange Peel, Asheville, NC