if you like the black mountain album, your best bets from my list are mount eerie, bardo pond, dead meadow, 5ive in that order (if you haven't listened to them already that is)
vampire weekend - vampire weekend
kings of leon - only by the night
mgmt - oracular spectacular
cut copy - in ghost colours
m83 - saturdays = youth
bloc party - intimacy
bon iver - for emma forever ago
Foals - Antidotes
Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
van she - v
Since posting in this thread before, the only other big finRAB for me are Elbow's "The Seldom Seen Kid" and Dead Meadow's "Old Growth."
This year has some great stuff, it's just bloody killing me that not one of my favorite artists still releasing music has done anything this year.
I was really banking on Regina Spektor too. :/
Though, I can only hope this rather absent year might mean 2009 will make me very happy.