My Top 30 of 2008
As yet, in no particular order. I have to whittle it down to ten for my Zulu year-end list. Probably as my colleagues begin drawing up their lists, I'll remember some other things, too. there's even a chance that something will still come out this year that could wiggle its way on here, but probably not before my next-week deadline.
MORE ADDED! Now up to 41.
MY TOP 41 OF 2008 AS OF NOW
valet - naked acid
quiet village - silent movie
destroyer - trouble in dreams
portishead - third
beach house - devotion
atlas sound - let the blind lead those who see but cannot feel
deerhunter - microcastle
silver jews - lookout mountain, lookout sea
ladyhawk - shots
grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
chad vangaalen - soft airplane
mount eerie with julie doiron and fred squire - lost wisdom
high places - s/t
gang gang dance - saint dymphna
thee ohsees - the master's bedroom is worth spending a night in
no age - nouns
women - s/t
eden express - s/t
lykke li - youth novels
abe vigoda - skeleton
jonathan richman - because her beauty is raw and wild
department of eagles - in ear park
nite jewel - my cd
john maus - love is real
flying lotus - los angeles
fennesz - black sea
little joy - s/t
megapuss - surfing
group inerane - music of niger, guitars from agadez
skeletons - money
poolplayers - way below the surface
sian alice group - 59.59
vivian girls - s/t
studio - yearbook 2
v/a - roots of chicha: psychedelic cumbias from peru
dj/rupture - uproot
sun araw - beach head
diplo vs. santogold - top ranking mixtape
v/a - 1970's algerian proto-rai
scuba - a mutual antipathy
2562 - aerial
NOT YET OUT
Wavves - s/t
Psychic Ills - mirror eye
TECHNICALLY THIS YEAR, BUT 2007 TITLES AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Black Mountain - in the future
REISSUES
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - no pussyfooting
Gal Costa - 1969
Jorge Ben - 1969
Jorge Ben - forca bruta
MORE ADDED! Now up to 41.
MY TOP 41 OF 2008 AS OF NOW
valet - naked acid
quiet village - silent movie
destroyer - trouble in dreams
portishead - third
beach house - devotion
atlas sound - let the blind lead those who see but cannot feel
deerhunter - microcastle
silver jews - lookout mountain, lookout sea
ladyhawk - shots
grouper - dragging a dead deer up a hill
chad vangaalen - soft airplane
mount eerie with julie doiron and fred squire - lost wisdom
high places - s/t
gang gang dance - saint dymphna
thee ohsees - the master's bedroom is worth spending a night in
no age - nouns
women - s/t
eden express - s/t
lykke li - youth novels
abe vigoda - skeleton
jonathan richman - because her beauty is raw and wild
department of eagles - in ear park
nite jewel - my cd
john maus - love is real
flying lotus - los angeles
fennesz - black sea
little joy - s/t
megapuss - surfing
group inerane - music of niger, guitars from agadez
skeletons - money
poolplayers - way below the surface
sian alice group - 59.59
vivian girls - s/t
studio - yearbook 2
v/a - roots of chicha: psychedelic cumbias from peru
dj/rupture - uproot
sun araw - beach head
diplo vs. santogold - top ranking mixtape
v/a - 1970's algerian proto-rai
scuba - a mutual antipathy
2562 - aerial
NOT YET OUT
Wavves - s/t
Psychic Ills - mirror eye
TECHNICALLY THIS YEAR, BUT 2007 TITLES AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED
Vampire Weekend - s/t
Black Mountain - in the future
REISSUES
Brian Eno & Robert Fripp - no pussyfooting
Gal Costa - 1969
Jorge Ben - 1969
Jorge Ben - forca bruta