2008-Best of the year

Only 3 this year;

1. Nick Cave and the Bad SeeRAB - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes.

3. TV on the Radio - Dear Science.

4. The Raconteurs - Consoler of the Lonely

Those top 3 albums stand out more than any others.
No.4 qualifies for fanboy reasons only.

Not a vintage year for albums IMO, but not a bad year for hearing new banRAB (from previous years) that caught my attention.
 
1. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
3. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster
4. Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns
5. Los Campesinos! - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
 
Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts
Death Cab for Cutie-Narrow Stairs
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Crystal Castles - Alice Practice
The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
 
1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - Festival Thyme EP
3. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
4. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs
5. Flogging Molly - Float
 
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I don't think I've posted mine yet, so...

1. Opeth "Watershed"
2. Cancer Bats "Hail Destroyer"
3. The Mars Volta "The Bedlam In Goliath"
4. Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
5. Genghis Tron "Board Up The House"
6. Thursday/Envy
7. City and Colour "Bring Me Your Love"
8. Underoath "Lost In The Sound Of Separation"
9. Teenage Bottlerocket "Warning Device"
10. Coldplay "Viva La Vida"
 
Easy,

The Punch Brothers- Punch
The Hold Steady- Stay Positive
The Accidental- There Were Wolves
Calexico- Carried to Dust
Joshua Radin- Simple Times

but. the fleet foxes, death cab, and of montreal were all real close for me
 
I hate to provoke an argument, but this was one of the well-received albums this year that raised my ire. I thought that album was terrible; I couldn't even make it halfway through. What was it that you used to say: "the indie hype machine licking its own ass" or something like that? Yeah, that's what it seemed like. Even if there was something there, it was pretty mediocre songwriting and it seemed like a half-assed attempt at ripping a Psyence Fiction knock-off.
 
Watershed is quite possibly the worst Opeth album. I don't get the love at all. It's bland and unimaginative and the production is far too polished.
 
I'm in agreement with Nick Cave, Cut Copy, and The Cure. The Cure in particular because I'm glad that they came out with a smooth-flowing CD to eradicate their prior effort which I wasn't too thrilled with.

Others in the mix (apologies if these were mentioned before)

Portishead - Third
Muse - Haaarp
Sigur R
 
Yep, it came out in March! I prefer Elephant Eyelash, but both albums blow my mind. Elephant Eyelash has more songs that stand out in my mind, but Alopecia stanRAB out as an album to me. It's one I can't pick apart... neeRAB to be listened to front to back. But that's probably just me.
 
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