Not really many change from the list I put up at the end of last year but I thought the benefit of a few months hindsight meant I could re-do my list from last year slightly:
1. We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Modest Mouse)
2. Strawberry Jam (Animal Collective)
3. Boxer (The National)
4. Sound of Silver (LCD Soundsystem)
5. Drums and Guns (Low)
6. Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters (The Twilight Sad)
7. Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer? (Of Montreal)
8. In Rainbows (Radiohead)
9. You, You're A History in Rust (Do Make Say Think)
10. The Magic Position (Patrick Wolf)
11. Kala (MIA)
12. Cross (Justice)
13. The Deep Blue (Charlotte Hatherley)
14. Icky Thump (The White Stripes)
15. Sky Blue Sky (Wilco)
16. The Stage Names (Okkervil River)
17. Night Falls Over Kortedala (Jens Lekman)
18. The Shepherd's Dog (Iron and Wine)
19. Random Spirit Lover (Sunset Rubdown)
20. Neon Bible (Arcade Fire)
Just missing the cut: Les Savy Fav, Beirut, !!!, Super Furry Animals, Kevin Drew, Deerhoof, Panda Bear
So that's that for now. Now to listen to the remainder of 2008's releases.