Jan
8
2009

BEST of 2008

posted by Justin at 1:26 pm.

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Best Albums:
1. In Ghost Colors/ Cut Copy
2. Hercules and Love Affair/ Hercules and Love Affair
3. Fleet Foxes/ Fleet Foxes
4. Santogold/ Santogold
5. Saturdays=Youth/ M83
6. Modern Guilt/ Beck
7. Crystal Castes/ Crystal Castles
8. Apocalypso/ The Presets

Best Singles
1. “Blind”/ Hercules and Love Affair
2. “White Winter Hymnal”/ Fleet Foxes
3. “Far Away”/ Cut Copy
4. “Gamma Ray”/ Beck
5. “Walking on a Dream”/ Empire of the Sun
6. “L.E.S. Artistes”/ Santagold
7. “Hearts on Fire”/ Cut Copy
8. “Electric Feel”/ Mgmt
9. “Graveyard Girl”/ M83
10. “American Boy”/ Estelle feat. Kayne West
11. “Back of the Van (Fred Falke Remix)/ Ladyhawke
12. “Day Off”/ Xinobi

Favorite New Artists:
1. Hercules and Love Affair
2. Fleet Foxes
3. Empire of the Sun

Overlooked Artists:
1. Moby
2. The Sound of Arrows
3. Cazals

Big in ‘09:
1. The Postelles
2. Louis La Roche
3. Empire of the Sun
4. Late of the Pier
5. Shazam

Justin Cudmore: cudmore2@gmail.com

Comments

phillip (phillip) says:
(Posted January 8th, 2009 at 4:03 pm)

Good list although MGMT’s album gotta be top ten. Good call with Hercules and Love Affair. Also Postelles will be big in ‘09. nice

justin (justin) says:
(Posted January 8th, 2009 at 8:21 pm)

yea, maybe it should be number 9 or 10. I didn’t include it because I feel like it definitely had a handful of top-notch tracks, but the entire album wasn’t really amazing all through, you know? Like, Electric Feel, Kids, and Time to Pretend were all good, but i don’t know, I don’t know if I ever actually liked listening to the full album. I more just skipped to those tracks.

Ryan (Ryan) says:
(Posted January 15th, 2009 at 12:10 am)

Finally sat down and listened to Last Night, it’s good. better than i thought, woah

“Far Away” definitely for best singles

I probably would have had Arm’s Way in there, but you hate Islands, so yeah…

Maria (Maria) says:
(Posted January 15th, 2009 at 12:12 am)

Yeah, really.. Arm’s Way, Justin.

baha.

Great job otherwise.

justin (justin) says:
(Posted January 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am)

Islands, islands, islands…i don’t know. I wasn’t super impressed with that album, nor the live show. we left after 20 minutes. it just weirded me out.

Live Transmission » Blog Archive » Recap: The Sound of Arrows @ Debaser Medis (Live Transmission » Blog Archive » Recap: The Sound of Arrows @ Debaser Medis) says:
(Posted February 2nd, 2009 at 5:23 pm)

[…] Stefan Storm and Oskar Gullstrand played keyboards and sang behind a wall of brilliant visuals with cool blues and purples. The night was one full of bright synth-strings topped with eerily cool vocals. The group debuted their new single “M.A.G.I.C.” Friday night to much applause. Unfortunately, The Sound of Arrows debut album has been postponed until September, but it will be here sooner than you think. Watch the mini-video for ‘M.A.G.I.C.’ The Sound of Arrows MYSPACE Official Site See: Best of ‘08 List […]

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