Crask's Top 50 Albums of 2008
By now, I feel like the albums I've enjoyed from 2008 have been listened to enough I feel relatively confident in finally doing my year end list. Here we go, in order:
50. TV On The Radio - Dear Science (Highlight: Golden Age)
49. The Mae Shi - HLLLYH (Highlight: Young Marks)
48. Bloc Party - Intimacy (Highlight: Mercury)
47. The Bug - London Zoo (Highlight: Murder We ft. Ricky Ranking)
46. Sun Kil Moon - April (Highlight: Lost Verses)
45. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Highlight: Untrust Us)
44. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (Highlight: Vigil For A Fuddy Duddy)
43. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Highlight: Waving Flags)
42. Sam Roberts - Love At The End Of The World (Highlight: Them Kids)
41. Black Mountain - In The Future (Highlight: Tyrants)
40. Shearwater - Rooks (Highlight: Rooks)
39. Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances (Highlight: My Time Outside The Womb)
38. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping (Highlight: An Eluardian Instance)
37. Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (Highlight: Bleeding All Over You)
36. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (Highlight: The Modern Leper)
35. Children Collide - The Long Now (Highlight: Brave Robot)
34. Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Highlight: Out There On The Ice)
33. Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Highlight....)
32. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Highlight: Time To Pretend)
31. Portishead - Third (Highlight: The Rip)
30. Fuck Buttons - Street Horrsing (Highlight: Sweet Love For Planet Earth)
29. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive (Highlight: Sequestered In Memphis)
28. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (Highlight: Oxford Comma)
27. Deerhunter - Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. (Highlight: Nothing Ever Happened)
26. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends (Highlight: Viva La Vida)
25. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim (Highlight: Cross Your Fingers)
24. Horse Feathers - House With No Home (Highlight: Curs In The Weeds)
23. Noah & The Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down (Highlight: Rocks & Daggers)
22. Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (Highlight: Which Song?)
21. Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (Highlight: Ready For The Floor)
20. M83 - Saturdays = Youth (Highlight: Kim & Jessie)
19. Air France - No Way Down EP (Highlight: No Excuses)
18. The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Highlight: Drive On, Driver)
17. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust (Highlight: Fljótavik)
16. The Tallest Man On Earth - Shallow Grave (Highlight: The Gardner)
15. Beck - Modern Guilt (Highlight: Gamma Ray)
14. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Highlight: One Day Like This)
13. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant EP (Highlight: Mykonos)
12. Calexico - Carried To Dust (Highlight: Two Silver Trees)
11. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (Highlight: California Dreamer)
10. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever (Highlight: Flume)
9. Plants And Animals - Parc Avenue (Highlight: Bye Bye Bye)
8. The Dodos - Visiter (Highlight: Red & Purple)
7. Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (Highlight: See You In My Knightmares Ft. Lil Wayne)
6. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Highlight: Your Protector)
5. Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too (Highlight: Where You Go I Go Too)
4. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (Highlight: Play Your Part (Pt. 2))
3. Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride (Highlight: San Bernadino)
2. James Blackshaw - Litany Of Echoes (Highlight: The Past Has Not Passed)
1. The Walkmen - You & Me (Highlight: In The New Year)