The Top 25 Albums of 2008
Friday, February 27th, 2009
Okay, I know we’re already fully immersed in 2009, but save a little room in your heart for my favorite albums from 2008. Instead of discussing and analyzing the last year to any great extent, I’ll simply say this: 2008 introduced me to some wonderful artists I hadn’t yet heard before (Positions one, two and five come to mind) and also provided some high end work from long established artists (like positions three and four). So all in all this was a rad year. It’s a bummer that this measly list of 25 (actually 27) wasn’t able to include immensely strong albums by the likes of Bun B, Wale, Beck, Girl Talk, Gang Gang Dance, the Constantines, the Gaslight Anthem, Jay Reatard, The Very Best, Mates Of State, Grouper, the Dodos, Fuck Buttons, Plants And Animals, No Age, Oxford Collapse, Q-Tip, Paavoharju and especially Earth, who I wish I could have made room for. That being said, the albums that are on the list are truly (in my opinion) the elite batch of the bunch.