Updated list in no order...

Adele: 19
Duffy: Rockferry
She & Him: Volume One
Laura Marling: Alas, I Cannot Swim
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly: Searching for the Hows and Whys
Gnarls Barkley: The Odd Couple
M83: Saturday = Youth
Santogold: Santogold
Scarlett Johansson: Anywhere I Lay My Head
Jamie Lidell: JIM
My Morning Jacket: Evil Urges
Weezer: Weezer (The Red Album)
Black Kids: Partie Traumatic
Beck: Modern Guilt
Little Jackie: The Stoop
David Vandervelde: Waiting for the Sunrise
Mystery Jets: Twenty One
Blood Red Shoes: Box of Secrets
Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart
Noah and the Whale: Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Two more that have recently squirmed into my affections:

Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel: See Mitchell/Clem's thread for links. It comes across like one of those Nintendocore bands making a dayglo synth pop album.
The Old Believers - Eight Golden Greats: Dipping back into my bag of glib comparisons, I'd say this is M. Ward as reimagined by Tim Rutili. Except there's a girl singing as well. They both have voices like honey and the songs are the same sort of transplanted 1950s Americana except with all kinds of rattling percussion and electronic tweaks. Fantastic songs and the production puts it way over the top.

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
M83 - Saturdays = Youth
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter lll
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
Envelopes - Here Comes The Wind
Hold Steady - Stay Positive
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

Bonny Prince Billy has a habit of sending promos to radio stations WITHOUT the song titles listed ANYWHERE on the cd or case.

Is Tha Carter III the only hip-hop album that anyone's listened to this year?

it's the only one showing up on anyone's list, it seems.

Is there anything else that's been decent?

I've liked, to varying degrees, the below 2008 records

Nas
The Cool Kids
The Roots
El-P

Cyne's odds and ends release is great, and supposedly a new full length by years end. the Doomtree album is my favorite hip hop record of the year so far.

you're not talking about 'I'll Sleep When You're Dead' are you? That came out in 2007.

Did I miss out on a new El-P disc?

Cadence Weapon.

1. hoobity blah
2. drunk on the edge of a cliff
3. dirtier than thou
4. east river float
5. full system station
6. fuck the law
7. nair
8. mars tv
9. i just made you up
10. krazy kings 3
11. 45 caliber blues
12. new blud
13. mike douglas
14. my kind
15. sparrow (escape from the tombs)
16. 16 is a lucky number now

Tour-only disc.

oh, shit! thanks!

also, yes, the Cadence Weapon disc is really good.

My favs so far:

1. Parts & Labor - Receivers
2. White Denim - Workout Holiday
3. Cadence Weapon - Afterparty Babies
4. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
5. Deerhunter - Microcastle
6. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III
7. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - S/T
8. Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
9. Why? - Alopecia
10. Subtle - ExitingArm

Leaks included obvs.

Never heard any of that stuff but the name of the band and the cover make me want to listen to it. Which record should I get first?

If you want to get into El-P, get both Fantastic Damage and I'll Sleep When You're Dead. Those are his only two 'official' albums, but they're both awesome.

If he hasn't heard any El-P, he should get Cold Vein.

yeah, but that's more an example of his production than emceeing. What the hell, get all three!

+ Funcrusher Plus.

that's kinda hard to find though, if you're looking for a for reals copy.

Does the Rawkus re-release suck in some way? I don't know the ins and outs.

no, I just thought it was out of print.

Maybe it is. I forget I got it nearly a decade ago. Am old.

either way there's always good old fashioned downloading.

This is very good. Thanks.

Plants and Animals-Parc Avenue



This is a really great album. It gives you that communal raw comfort that's similar to listening to Akron/Family.

Annihilation Time III- Tales of the Ancient Time


u fags like art of partying and just found municipal waste. u think theyre ironic and fucking neato. youd probably think AT was the shit. the thrash crossover is back in style, where are the dickriders?

Awesome post.

okay, two thirds there. update:

1. the mae shi - hlllyh
2. why? - alopecia
3. hot chip - made in the dark
4. okkervil river - the stand ins
5. tvotr - dear, science
6. my morning jacket - evil urges
7. the hold steady - stay positive
8. weezer - red album
9. deerhunter - microcastle
10. frightened rabbit - midnight organ fight
11. destroyer - trouble in dream
12. blitzen trapper - furr
13. coldplay - viva la vida
14. black mountain - in the future
15. parts and labor - receivers
16. no age - nouns
17. lil wayne - tha carter 3
18. drive-by truckers - brighter than creation's dark
19. erykah badu - nu amerykah
20. gaslight anthem - the 59 sound
21. ra ra riot - the rhumb line
22. fucked up - the chemistry of common life
23. paavoharaju - laula laakson kukista
24. lindstrom - where you go i go too
25. glasvegas - s/t
26. miles benjamin anthony robinson - s/t
27. jamie lidell - jim
28. british sea power - do you like rock music?
30. the dodos - visitor
31 wale - the mixtape about nothing
32. los campesinos! - hold on now, youngster
33. m83 - saturdays = youth
34. young jeezy - the recession
35. hercules and love affair - s/t
36. gnarls barkley - the odd couple
37. torche - meanderthal

best of my ability, that's it for the moment.

1. The Peth - The Golden Mile
2. Stereolab - Chemical Chords
3. British Sea Power - Do you Like Rock Music?

Love this album. I haven't really seen anyone else talking about it. Really, really good, deserves it's very own Laura Marling-style stalker thread.

spiritualized
bsp
laura marling
tv on the radio

honestly, not too much stuff that i LOVED in 2008... but these four are great

I can't stop playing this:

Not sure what's meant by this

well, i'll be stalking her next week. for real.



maybe not REALLY stalking...



oh yeah, and add the aliens to this

fucked up - the chemistry of common life
origin - antithesis
disfear - life the storm
times new viking - rip it off
cursed - III
evangelicals - the evening descends
lil wayne - III

i really loved this one at first, but the charm wore off a little. probably still top fifty, though. why isn't anyone but you talking about this? it's a damn good record.

I might go see them next month. Just scared of getting my head ripped off by those darn punx.

I guess I should just man the fuck up.

they are good guys. most recently saw them opening for the stooges and they were great. but yes, could be a bit rough...

The M83 was perfect for the summer. Weezer was fantastic for the spring. Those two have gone to the back of my list though. That Wolf Parade album is currently tied with the Autechre and Cut Copy.

you are absolutely spot on, actually, I heard it when it first leaked and i was just over-ecstatic about a new fucked up album, just because hidden world was so damn good. I saw them live, i sat on it, and yes, it did kind of wear out relatively quickly, but so far 2008 hasn't offered anything worth mentioning, and my love for hidden world is so completely unwavering that i look at the chemistry of common life in in the shadow of HW and contextually it sounds just fine. but hidden world it isn't. Where is the Cursed thread on this board?

this was my first exposure to them. i take it the earlier stuff is worth finding... what should i hear next?

I recall really enjoying Year of the Pig.

Not really blown away by either of those full-lengths, though.

hidden world is where it's at, as far as i am concerned... one of the most beautiful albums I have ever heard. It just runs
across all the right points of association for me.

Well put sir. Well put.

M83
Elbow
Sun Kil Moon
Benoit Piolard
Cut Copy
Tindersticks
Spiritualized
Constantines
Boris
Deerhunter (Microcastle)


Maybe too soon to say, but the new TV on the Radio is pretty great, and I can see myself listening to it well into the future; same goes for the new Stereolab.

As of now:

01. She & Him: Volume One
02. Rachael Yamagata: Elephants/Teeth Sinking Into Heart
03. Laura Marling: Alas I Cannot Swim
04. Jenny Lewis: Acid Tongue
05. Bon Iver: For Emma, Forever Ago

Other favorites: The Streets, Ida Maria, Duffy, Adele, Mystery Jets, Ladyhawke, Jamie Lidell, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly, Blood Red Shoes, Beck.

my disco - paradise
evangelista - hello, voyager
kevin drumm - imperial distortion
aufgehoben - khora
sun kil moon - april
krallice - s/t
billy bao - dialectics of shit
emeralds - solar bridge
deep dark united - look at/look out
hospitals - hairdryer peace

good year.

No particular order :

The Aliens - Luna
Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight
Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
Sun Kil Moon - April
Caina - Temporary Antennae
Raphael Saadiq - Love That Girl
The Week That Was - The Week That Was

I still haven't listened to the new TVOTR. And I just got the new Dead Confederate so I can probably add it to the list already as I have really high hopes for this stuff.

Apart from that I really liked M83 and the new Ez3kiel, along with some fairly enjoyable stuff such as the She & Him record.
Parts & Labor I loved too but I need to give it a few more spins to decide if I find it worth being on my top list.

Overall I do think there are some pretty solid records out this year.

These are awesome records.

Can't really appreciate shit like Hospitals and Billy Bao, it all seems kind of unremarkable. I mean, in theory I should love any lo-fi noise vomit like Hospitals or any nihilistic Brainbombs style downer punk like Billy Bao. But nah, I mean, I can't get past the fact that the former is so much less interesting than Twin Infinitives or that the latter just sounds cool and doesn't do anything. Seems like the only people ranking that shit high would be ultra hardcore RYM-ers or Terminal Boredom types who go for anything garage or lo-fi these days, even though very few of those records aren't boring as shit.

I'll never understand it.

w/e, shit is raw

new TV GHOST record is awesome too