Posted in best of 08 on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
jimmymontreal’s top albums and tracks of 2008
albums
5. For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver
I was going to start off with a bunch of excuses about this and that — not enough time to focus on the music this year, etc, etc… — but fuckit. I’m pleased with my “Best Of” for this year ‘08. And [...]
Posted in best of 08 on December 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
smitch’s top albums and tracks of 2008
albums
5. You & Me by The Walkmen
After solidifying my top four, I thought long and hard about which other album deserved to crack the list, and I kept coming back to these bastards. While their 2005 masterpiece Bows + Arrows is a cleaner record, You & Me has moments [...]
Posted in best of 08 on December 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
mgdistrict’s top albums and tracks of 2008
albums
5. Visiter by The Dodos
Just barely beating out You & Me by The Walkmen. Such an original and amazing release. No one else sounds like these guys (same could be said for The Walkmen, I suppose, and Vampire Weekend, for that matter). Punchy, rocking and intense. I love it.
4. [...]
Posted in best of 08 on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The three of us who write this blog have in common, of course, a shared love of music. When we first got to know each other we had something else in common: a lack of girlfriends and, more generally, lives. These two common factors had a symbiotic relationship. The intensity of one inadvertently fed the [...]
