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Top 10 Albums of 2008
TheFuriousWombat:
These are not in any sort of order at this point. These are simply the albums that really stand out in my mind as I think back on the year at this point (although I'm sure I'm forgetting several that I loved):
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion to Rejoin
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Sigur Ros - Med Sud...
The Drift - Memory Drawings
Matthew Robert Cooper - Miniatures
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
Library Tapes - A Summer Beneath the Trees
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Shearwater - Rook
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
This Will Destroy You - S/T
The North Sea - Gated Community
Higuma - Haze Valley
The Alps - III
Albums that I loved at first and then started liking less:
TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
Fleet Foxes - S/T
Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their PRE [fixed!] "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
Islands - Arm's Way (I was in love with this when I first heard. When I listen now, it seems just OK)
I guess I'll been narrowing the list and putting it in order once the year is actually over and done with.
imagist42:
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 17 Oct 2008, 23:16 ---Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their post "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
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Huh? This is the only album since Stage Names. The only other release between the two was that free mixtape of covers.
Thrillho:
Woo, new Ryan Adams record a week on Monday.
TheFuriousWombat:
--- Quote from: imagist42 on 18 Oct 2008, 09:23 ---
--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 17 Oct 2008, 23:16 ---Okkervil River - The Stand-ins (I liked it a lot. Then I re-listened, several times, to their post "Stage Names" albums and realized it didn't stand up)
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Huh? This is the only album since Stage Names. The only other release between the two was that free mixtape of covers.
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I know that. And their stuff before it is better in my opinion. This and the Stage Names aren't as compelling which is why I don't think it'll make my personal list. I like the album, but I can't really help comparing it and seeing, for me anyway, a less interesting album as a result.
imagist42:
I was just confused by the way you structured that sentence. You implied that The Stand Ins did not stand up to other post (meaning after) Stage Names albums, when it is the only post-Stage Names album. But I get what you are saying now and I can understand feeling that way. The Stand Ins is so wonderful to me because I have always been a bigger fan of their more rock-oriented songs ("Black" being my favorite not to mention the first song that made me pay attention to them, and the first three tracks of The Stage Names being incredibly pleasing to listen to in one run). The lyrical content is also superb as ever, being both piercingly insightful and worryingly self-reflective for the band. Even the little instrumental tracks between tracks are great, as they repeat themes from other parts of the album and tie them all together in a very neat, flowing and even cyclical fashion--with the closing song being bookended by the last and first of those tracks, both of which explore progressions common to each other and said song, putting the album on repeat makes for one long, uninterrupted experience. I've probably listened to the album over fifty, maybe near a hundred times this way, so... yeah.
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