well, it has been another busy month with no posts. i actually have been planning this post for several weeks, but i wanted to check it twice before finally putting it out there. no discussion, just a list of the records i liked in 2008. most links provide either artist-sanctioned downloads of individual tracks (whenever i could find one), streams of full albums (mostly at last.fm), or streaming tracks as a last resort... with a couple exceptions*.
i hope everyone else is also still finding new music they enjoy.
top eleven:
the black crowes - warpaint (stream warpaint)
the gutter twins - saturnalia (download "idle hands")
melvins - nude with boots (stream nude with boots)
no age - nouns (download "eraser")
prisonshake - dirty moons (download "crush me")
scorch trio - brolt! (stream three tracks here)
the wedding present - el ray (download "the thing i like best about him is his girlfriend")
second top eleven:
cheap time - cheap time (stream tracks here)
dead meadow - old growth (download "i'm gone" and "what needs must be")
magic lanterns - high beams (download "deathheads hawkmoth")
nissenenmondai - neji/tori (stream "pop group")
suffocate for fuck sake - blazing fires and helicopters on the frontpage of the newspaper. there´s a war going on and i´m marching in heavy boots (stream blazing fires...)
wale - the mixtape about nothing (*download here, because it was meant to be given away in the first place)
witch hats - cellulite soul (stream cellulite soul)
honorable mention:
atlas sound - let the blind lead those who can see but not feel (download "river card")
bonnie "prince" billy - lie down in the light (stream lie down in the light)
the dirtbombs - we have you surrounded (stream "ever lovin' man" here)
home blitz - weird wings (ok, technically weird wings is a portion of home blitz' self-titled full length which was released in 2007. sue me. stream tracks 11-15 here)
koushik - out my window (download "lying in the sun")
portishead - third (stream third)
the roots - rising down (stream rising down)
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