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Ok, it's the last day of 2008 so it feels like an appropriate time to freeze my 2008 top list.
2008 was kinda disappointing after an amazing 2007: lots of good records, but nothing really groundbreaking as many 2007 titles (Battles, Burial, Panda Bear...).
Anyway, here we go:
TOP ALBUMS:
GANG GANG DANCE Saint Dymphna
BLAKE E/E/E Border Radio
MAHJONGG Kontpab
DEERHUNTER Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.
FLEET FOXES Fleet Foxes
RATATAT LP3
PORTISHEAD Third
BECK Modern Guilt
NO AGE Nouns
VAMPIRE WEEKEND Vampire Weekend
HIGH PLACES High Places
WHY? Alopecia
BENGA Diary Of An Afro Warrior
THE PHARMACY Choose Your Own Adventure
MOVIE STAR JUNKIES Melville
FUCK BUTTONS Street Horrrsing
THE DODOS Visiter
SIC ALPS Us EZ
MOJOMATICS Don't Pretend That You Know Me
BON IVER For Emma, Forever Ago
Some more, out of the top 20:
ATLAS SOUND Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
THE VERY BEST The Very Best
FLYING LOTUS Los Angeles
BEACH HOUSE Devotion
SANTOGOLD Santogold
THE BUG London Zoo
DRINK TO ME Don't Panic, Go Organic
TV ON THE RADIO Dear Science,
INDIAN JEWELRY Free Gold!
OFFLAGA DISCO PAX Bachelite
EL GUINCHO Alegranza
TUSSLE Cream Cuts
THE ZEN CIRCUS Villa Inferno
Top 3 singles:
INVISIBLE CONGA PEOPLE Cable Dazed 12"
LCD SOUNDSYSTEM Confuse the Marketplace 12"
GOLDEN TRIANGLE Prize Fighter 7"
Top 3 reissues-compilations:
BRAZIL 70 After Tropicalia
ARTHUR RUSSELL Love Is Overtaking Me
LIQUID LIQUID Slipping In And Out Of Phenomenon
Some older stuff I've been digging this year:
SILVER APPLES Silver Apples, Contact
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The United States Of America
STEVIE WONDER Talking Book, Innervisions
BRIAN ENO Before And After Science, Another Green World
DAVID BYRNE AND BRIAN ENO My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
STEVE REICH Music For Eighteen Musicians
HITSVILLE USA The Complete Motown Singles Collection 1959-1971
SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE Dance To The Music
CCCP - Fedeli alla Linea Compagni, Cittadini, Fratelli, Partigiani/Ortodossia II
LUCIO BATTISTI Battisti, Amore e Non Amore
FRANCO BATTIATO La Voce del Padrone
THE FREE DESIGN You Could Be Born Again, Kites Are Fun
FUNKADELIC One Nation Under a Groove
THE CONGOS Heart Of The Congos
FAUST IV
CLUSTER 71
WHITE NOISE An Electric Storm
JAPANTHER Skuffed Up My Huffy
Books!
TOM McCARTHY Remainder
JOSE SARAMAGO Ensajo Sobre a Cegueira/Blindness
WILLIAM FAULKNER As I Lay Dying
PHILIP ROTH The Human Stain, American Pastoral, The Plot Against America, Portnoy's Complaint
ZADIE SMITH On Beauty
RICK MOODY Right Livelihoods
BORIS PASTERNAK Doctor Zivago
ROBERTO SAVIANO Gomorra
SIMON REYNOLDS Rip It Up And Start Again
