Topic: Top 10 Albums of 2008 (Read 356969 times)

Tom · « **Reply #500 on:** 22 Jun 2008, 01:03 »

Perhapst's (John Moen from the Decemberists and the Jicks) self-titled debut is amazing. He comes across as a more playful Will Oldham combined with Carl Newman, folky but with plenty of enjoyable indie pop/rock sensibilities. On songs like the album's opener, "Quote" there is a significant Byrds/Tulsa vibe going around.

himynameisjulien · « **Reply #501 on:** 22 Jun 2008, 15:20 »

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace (or was this released late last year? I have no clue)
Less Than Jake - GNV FLA (got it for free (!!) at Warped Tour yesterday. As good as Hello Rockview and Pezcore)
I can't think of any more I have found to be exceptional, maybe the Red Album, but I liked the Blue one and the Green one better.

KickThatBathProf · « **Reply #502 on:** 22 Jun 2008, 16:53 »

Quote from: himynameisjulien on 22 Jun 2008, 15:20

Radiohead - In Rainbows
Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience, and Grace (or was this released late last year? I have no clue)

Yes, yes it was. And so was In Rainbows, but I guess it was physically in early january

Thrillho · « **Reply #503 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 10:32 »

Black Light Burns' first album apparently only just got a UK release. This is good becuase that means it can be in my top ten! Yay!

'Iodine Sky' FTW!

Kai · « **Reply #504 on:** 23 Jun 2008, 11:34 »

Quote from: Beren on 19 Jun 2008, 01:32

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Also, on the first listen of the HEALTH // DISCO album, I do not like it. This is probably heresy, but eh. It's not a hate, it just doesn't do anything for me. I'm thinking of trying it again at some point, but I'm not sure it's worth it.

I saw these guys back in, like,January maybe, with Ad Astra Per Aspera and Coat Party, not knowing who they were. I was pretty disinterested. I haven't listened to the record though.

Halitosis · « **Reply #505 on:** 25 Jun 2008, 21:04 »

Here's my top 10. I might change the order a bit, but these are the 10 albums I like best.

1. Venetian Snares - Detrimentalist
2. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
3. Xiu Xiu - Women as Lovers
4. Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
5. Louis XIV - Slick Dogs and Ponies
6. Portishead - Third
7. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
8. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
9. HEALTH//DISCO
10. Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV

SleeperCylon · « **Reply #506 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 15:42 »

My current list

1. Portishead
2. Nick Cave
3. Hercules And Love Affair
4. Drive By Truckers
5. Erykah Badu
6. The Bellrays
7. Bonnie "Prince" Billy
8. Hanne Hukkelberg
9. Vampire Weekend
10. Laura Marling

Tom · « **Reply #507 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 16:13 »

1. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
2. Black Francis - SVN FNGRS
3. Fleet Foxes - s/t
4. The Presets - Apocalypso
5. Perhapst - s/t
6. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
7. Crystal Castles - s/t
8. Make Believe - Going to the Bone Church
9. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
10. Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down in the Light

Subsequent to change, still a lot of stuff I have yet to listen to or hasn't been released yet.

EDIT: Eksi Ekso's album I Am Your Bastard Wings will end up on their sometime soon, they sound like The Dears, Devotchka, BSS, Arcade Fire and Bridezilla combined.

imagist42 · « **Reply #508 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 20:09 »

Albums I've been digging so far this year:

Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
The Dodos - Visiter
Fleet Foxes - s/t
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Islands - Arm's Way
This Will Destroy You - s/t
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer

I am much too lazy to attempt any sort of non-alphabetical ordering and there are still quite a few releases I am looking forward to so this is more of a "I like these and maybe you should check them out if you haven't" post.

Gridgm · « **Reply #509 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 21:04 »

i get the feeling i havn't been listening to enough music this year

be your own pet, ayreon, dresden dolls, boris, witchhats, mt zion were good

judas priest, NIN and nick cave could have been better but are still ok

nothing horrible yet

waiting for the living end and amanda palmer solo

jeph · « **Reply #510 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 21:30 »

As of now, and in no particular order:

M83
El Guincho
Hercules & Love Affair
Fenin
Cut Copy
Diskjokke
The Notwist
Sasha Funke
Silver Mt. Zion
Justus Kohnke

High Hopes:

Hold Stead, Mogwai, Gojira(?), The Sword(?)

CamusCanDo · « **Reply #511 on:** 26 Jun 2008, 22:09 »

In no real order of importance:

Man Man
Gnarls Barkley
Girl Talk
The Hold Steady
Bon Iver
Fleet Foxes
Death Cab for Cutie
Crystal Castles
Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band
Islands

amok · « **Reply #512 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 06:59 »

Bon Iver was amazing supporting Iron & Wine. Not 100% convinced by the record yet though.

sean · « **Reply #513 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 11:36 »

Quote from: jeph on 26 Jun 2008, 21:30

Gojira(?)

Gojira is putting out an album this year? I did not know that. This is good news, I'll be able to listen to new metal other than mastodon then. Which should be excellent as well.

Also, I maintain that A Silver Mt. Zion's 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons is the record of the year.

Thrillho · « **Reply #514 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 12:06 »

Reviewed the first album (under that name) by The Corrections, and it's magnificent.

johnny5 · « **Reply #515 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 15:47 »

alright...my list is better looking now

(no particular order...yet)

portishead - third (another classic p'head album)
bottomless pit - congress ep (awesome followup to their great debut lp last year)
the blue seeds - s/t (nice folky female fronted band)
cold war kids - robbers and cowards (indie rock band of the moment...pretty solid album, pretty catchy)
the loose salute - tuned to love drummer from mojave 3's own band. lots of poppy tunes on here for summer. i'm not sure if this came out in 08 though. (mojave 3 evolved from Slowdive, interestingly)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (also a great summer album...is this band big yet?) this band actually has pretty weak lyrics, but the music/sound makes up for it.
thao nguyen and the Get Down Stay Downs - we brave bee stings and all (great folky singer/songwriter, she's really improved by leaps and bounds). her voice reminds me a bit of Cat Power, but the songs are not as downbeat.
atmosphere - when life gives you lemons, you paint that shit gold it's kind of like 90s rap never dried up and we started listening to songs about how krispy the guy is or watch what he can do with his feet! blah
envelopes - here comes the wind more of that indie pop shit. supposedly we are suppose to see a similarity to the pixies but i just dont see it other than the male/female singer with female bassist thing

i wanted to throw girl talk on here, but his samples are never long enough and it seriously sounds like he mixed it all together while doing a fat rail of coke. there's no time to get comfy to the beat before it changes to something else. also the whole rap lyrics/rock music thing is played out. i did like most of Night Ripper though. but another album of the same thing is kind of boring.

Tom · « **Reply #516 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 15:53 »

Quote from: johnny5 on 28 Jun 2008, 15:47

cold war kids - robbers and cowards (indie rock band of the moment...pretty solid album, pretty catchy)

This album was released in 2006

johnny5 · « **Reply #517 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 16:09 »

my bad, i had heard it on the radio recently and i think amazon told me it came out in 08, but that was probably a import release date.

Tom · « **Reply #518 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 20:18 »

They are in fact working on another album with a tentative September of '08 release date.

imagist42 · « **Reply #519 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 22:48 »

I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album. There were, like, two good songs worth listening to, ever. Born Ruffians did that whole gambit much better.

McTaggart · « **Reply #520 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 22:56 »

I think that if I give it a chance the new TZU album should be in my top ten for a least a month or so.

Tom · « **Reply #521 on:** 28 Jun 2008, 23:01 »

Quote from: imagist42 on 28 Jun 2008, 22:48

I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album.

Oh, it is.

johnny5 · « **Reply #522 on:** 30 Jun 2008, 13:58 »

Quote from: imagist42 on 28 Jun 2008, 22:48

I'm gonna have to say though, Robbers & Cowards was a pretty terrible album. There were, like, two good songs worth listening to, ever. Born Ruffians did that whole gambit much better.

I started hating it too...and then for some reason I just kept listening. I don't really think it has any staying power, I might hate it a month from now but at the moment their two singles are really doing it for me.

Jyan · « **Reply #523 on:** 30 Jun 2008, 14:35 »

It's June 30th! Time for my half-way-through-the-year Top Ten:

1. Fleet Foxes - s/t
2. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster!
4. Windmill - Puddle City Racing Lights
5. Shearwater - Rook
6. Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams
7. The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
8. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
9. Tickley Feather - s/t
10. White Hinterland - Phylactery Factory

Meg · « **Reply #524 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 15:46 »

GIRL TALK.

Scarychips · « **Reply #525 on:** 24 Jul 2008, 19:19 »

From what I heard, the new Parenthetical Girls and the new Simon Bookish will be on my top ten.

Liz · « **Reply #526 on:** 25 Jul 2008, 06:53 »

Quote from: Jyan on 30 Jun 2008, 14:35

5. Shearwater - Rook

Yes. This. Thank you for listening to good music.

Wayfaring Stranger · « **Reply #527 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 03:17 »

Quote from: Jyan on 30 Jun 2008, 14:35

1. Fleet Foxes - s/t

Hell yes.

I have also enjoyed music by Vampire Weekend, The Hold Steady, The Raconteurs, Punch Brothers, Death Cab for Cutie and several of the songs from Weezer's new record.

minkles · « **Reply #528 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 06:20 »

I don't think I've heard 10 albums I've liked in 2008... here's 5:

The Black Keys- Attack and Release
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Thao and the Whatever Her Band Is Called- We Brave Bee Stings and All
Islands- The Arm
My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges

Inlander · « **Reply #529 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 06:36 »

I've only listened to the Fleet Foxes album a couple of times so far. It's good, I like it, it's pleasant to listen to, but I have a feeling I'm going to get bored of it after a while. There's just not much variety in the music, especially in the vocal harmonies: while they undoubtedly sing beautifully together, each song has basically the same vocal arrangement, which after a while makes it seem like not so much an essential part of the music, as just something pretty they decided to put on without bothering to put too much effort into it. Basically it's just not all it could be.

For the moment, though, I'm still enjoying it.

Kyros · « **Reply #530 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 07:47 »

I keep changing my mind about the order of the Top 3, but here's what I've got so far.

1) Women - Self Titled
2) Los Campesinos! - Hold on Now..Youngster
3) Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual
4) Deerhunter - Microcastle
5) Times New Viking - Rip it Off
6) Dan Friel - Ghost Town
7) Hilotrons - Happymatic

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
9) Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
10) Steven Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash

I'm still anxiously awaiting the debut High Places full length and praying that The Thermals' next one comes out sooner rather than later.

Tom · « **Reply #531 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 13:30 »

Guys, I honestly don't enjoy Vampire Weekend's album, it is flat.

squawk · « **Reply #532 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 17:25 »

yeah vampire weekend is pretty boring you guys

up until now i had not heard an album this year that i could deem worthy of being number one but now i am leaning towards giving the stand ins that title

also, new deerhoof and new of montreal drop on the same day!!

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #533 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 19:54 »

Chinese Democracy got released down under yesterday, and it's the best album this year, nay ever.

Wait. No it dodn't.

Fuck you Axel Rose.

imagist42 · « **Reply #534 on:** 29 Jul 2008, 21:54 »

In retrospect I wouldn't call Vampire Weekend a good album, but it definitely has some spectacular tracks as far as I'm concerned. "Walcott" and "I Stand Corrected" are just plain infectious.

BTW, holy crap does At Mount Zoomer get better and better each time I listen. Right now that and Arm's Way are definitely contenders for my number one (I'm not going to count The Stand Ins until I've got it in my CD player), and just underneath them it's a war between Cut Copy, Hot Chip and The Dodos.

Thrillho · « **Reply #535 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 04:40 »

The Nick Cave album is just growing and growing on me, I think it might just be album of the year.

johnny5 · « **Reply #536 on:** 30 Jul 2008, 06:22 »

Quote from: squawk on 29 Jul 2008, 17:25

also, new deerhoof and new of montreal drop on the same day!!

it's like an acid trip for your ears!

Inlander · « **Reply #537 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 00:38 »

It's probably not the kind of music most people here listen to, but holy shit guys I've just listened for the first time to Roll With You by Eli "Paperboy" Reed & the True Loves and it's so damn good. Nothing ground-breaking, just great, tight, horn-driven 60s-style southern soul done the way it's meant to be done.

Tom · « **Reply #538 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 00:42 »

I might check it out when I stop listening to Mission of Burma and that might take a while.

RedLion · « **Reply #539 on:** 31 Jul 2008, 01:30 »

It took me awhile, but I've fallen in love with Spiritualized's "Songs in A & E."

Shadows Collide · « **Reply #540 on:** 05 Aug 2008, 22:02 »

Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Bonnie - Lay down in the light
No Age - Nouns

Apart from No Age, I'm evidently being very mellow at the moment.

Tom · « **Reply #541 on:** 08 Aug 2008, 04:25 »

New Dears record in late October. It'll be called Missiles and from, what I've heard (i.e. "Breakdown in A Major) Lightburn has returned to the fine form of just about everything that was recorded before Gang of Losers. They've most likely made a Dears album and not a slightly unoriginal yet enjoyable pop album.

The first "single", "Break Down in A Major" can be found here. Words cannot describe it's awesomeness but it is a combination of the expansive and synthy epicness of "Where the World Begins and Ends", the more promising guitar moments from Gol ("The Highest" in particular) and the mild proginess of their Protest EP.

TheFuriousWombat · « **Reply #542 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 07:40 »

Guys, arguably the very best album of the year came out digitally (emusic and itunes I think) yesterday and will be out on vinyl very soon. It's Matthew Robert Cooper's "Miniatures." That name might not sound familiar to any of you. That's because he usually releases music under his moniker, Eluvium. That name might not sound familiar to you. If so, you probably don't like ingenious, beautiful, mesmerizing ambient brilliance. This new album consists of 9 relatively short tracks (it's only 33 minutes long) but each one is fantastic. Solo piano, sonorous organs, layers of fuzzy bliss, this release is an ambient fans dream come true. For real. Fans of Eluvium will definitely hear influences from the most recent Eluvium release, Copia, and from his earlier solo piano album but this really is something wholly new. He wrote these songs under his actual name because he saw this as something similar to, but separate from, what an Eluvium album should be. And it shows. This is something new and haunting and wonderful. Everyone should listen to this. It's nothing short of spectacular and it's probably my number one album thus far of 2008.

Inlander · « **Reply #543 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 07:45 »

I bought Natacha Atlas's new album today. Again, probably not what most people here listen to, but it's really really good. She's dropped the beats for this one and gone all acoustic for a much more traditional middle-eastern sounding album - and it sounds just beautiful. Her voice, of course, is gorgeous.

Wraithzor · « **Reply #544 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 09:37 »

Deathconsciousness by Have A Nice Life must be one of the best albums of the year.

Thrillho · « **Reply #545 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 10:27 »

Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year. I don't think they'll topple Nick Cave as top of my list, but still.

look out! Ninjas! · « **Reply #546 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 18:43 »

Me and Armini by Emiliana Torrini is placing, no doubt. It's just so damn good.

Jackie Blue · « **Reply #547 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 18:46 »

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 16 Aug 2008, 10:27

Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year

Hahahahahaha.

More @ the former two than the latter, but still.

lol.

locafoca · « **Reply #548 on:** 16 Aug 2008, 19:11 »

Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 16 Aug 2008, 07:40

Guys, arguably the very best album of the year came out digitally (emusic and itunes I think) yesterday and will be out on vinyl very soon. It's Matthew Robert Cooper's "Miniatures." That name might not sound familiar to any of you. That's because he usually releases music under his moniker, Eluvium. That name might not sound familiar to you. If so, you probably don't like ingenious, beautiful, mesmerizing ambient brilliance. This new album consists of 9 relatively short tracks (it's only 33 minutes long) but each one is fantastic. Solo piano, sonorous organs, layers of fuzzy bliss, this release is an ambient fans dream come true. For real. Fans of Eluvium will definitely hear influences from the most recent Eluvium release, Copia, and from his earlier solo piano album but this really is something wholly new. He wrote these songs under his actual name because he saw this as something similar to, but separate from, what an Eluvium album should be. And it shows. This is something new and haunting and wonderful. Everyone should listen to this. It's nothing short of spectacular and it's probably my number one album thus far of 2008.

Holy shit, I need to get this. I loved Copia, as well as just about anything Eluvium has ever done...

Thrillho · « **Reply #549 on:** 17 Aug 2008, 05:14 »

Quote from: zerodrone on 16 Aug 2008, 18:46

Quote from: DynamiteKid on 16 Aug 2008, 10:27
Oasis, The Verve and Slipknot are releasing albums this year

Hahahahahaha.

More @ the former two than the latter, but still.

lol.

ROFLCOPTER! Go fuck yourself.

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himynameisjulien

Shadows Collide

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