An album per paycheck, here’s what you should have been spending your cash on this year.
1. Frightened Rabbit-Midnight Organ Fight (Fat Cat)(review) Scottish drunken rock
2. Thao Nguyen and the Get Up Stay Down-We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)(review) Folkie sweet love
3. Santogold-Santogold (Downtown) Smart hip hop
4. Cloud Cult-Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes)(Self-released) Angsty indie
5. LoDeck and Omega One-Postcards From The Third Planet (Groove Attack)(review) Headzy hip hop
6. Gaslight Anthem-The 59 Sound (Side One Dummy)(review) Bar band
7. Grand Archives-The Grand Archives (Sub Pop)(review) Indie pop
8. Hasan Saalam-Children of God (Self-released)(review) Conscious rap
9. Vampire Weekend-Vampire Weekend (XL Recordings) Indie rock/afrobeat
10. Jedi Mind Tricks-A History of Violence (Babygrande) Hardcore hip hop
11. Sebastien Grangier & The Mountains-s/t (Saddle Creek) Punkdancerock
12. C-Rayz Walz and Kosha Dillz-Freestyle vs. Written (Modular Moods)(review) Underground rap
12. Nobunny-Love Visions (Self-released)(review) Retro ’50s rock
13. Chad VanGaalen-Soft Airplane (Sub Pop)(review) Acoustic folktronica
14. Cold War Kids-Loyalty to Loyalty (Downtown)(review) College rock
15. Future of the Left-Last Night I Saved Her From Vampires (Self-released) Live punk
16. Diacon-Panthers-Make it Feel Better (Self-released)(review) Southern indie rock
17. Black Mountain-In the Future (Jagjaguwar)(review) Southern grunge
18. Fuck Buttons-Street Horrrsing (Atp Recordings)(review) Industrial noisepunk
19. Blood on the Wall-Liferz (The Social Registry)(review) Indie/experimental
20. Elzhi-The Preface (Fat Beats) Intelligent hip hop
21. Joseph Arthur-Temporary People (Fargo) (review) Rock/folk/pop
22. Tilly and the Wall-o (Team Love)(review) Rock/folk/pop
23. Curumin-Japan Pop Show (Adrenaline Records)(review) Hip hop/soul/rock
24. Weinland-La Lamentor (Badman)(review) Delicious weirdness
25. Foul Mouth Jerk-Streetlight Music (GFE)(review) Ignorant hip hop
26. Langhorne Slim (Kemado)(review) Americana
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Quite a good list. Mine will probably include only three that you have listed when I post it next week. That’s kinda wild. I’ve not heard of about a third of your list. Looks like I’ll have some listening to do soon.
Comment by Eric — December 6, 2008 @ 12:16 am
Pretty good list, but aside from “Creator” and “Shove It”, Santogold is pretty much a pop album.
Comment by Jeff — December 6, 2008 @ 1:58 pm
Black Mountain is a great band … southern they’re not, unless you consider gastown to be southern BC,Canada. But you’ve given me lots of new stuff to look for. But your first choice kicks ass. Its great. Check out Los Campesinos for more drunken scots…
Comment by Nickbert — December 6, 2008 @ 11:05 pm
Actually, Black Mountain calls THEMSELVES southern rockers. It’s the sound, not the place of origin.
As for Los Campesinos, I really liked their EP, but their album didn’t have enough in it for me to go wild enough for a best-of-08 entry.
Comment by ekko — December 7, 2008 @ 5:24 pm
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