Quinta-feira 1 Jan 2009, 4h:41
Top 25 releases on the year:
1. Daturah - Reverie
2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
3. God Is an Astronaut - God Is an Astronaut
4. Foals - Antidotes
5. Hammock - Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
6. Portishead - Third
7. Textures - Silhouettes
8. The American Dollar - A Memory Stream
9. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
10. Demians - Building an Empire
11. The Pineapple Thief - Tightly Wound
12. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
13. Marconi Union - A Lost Connection
14. Nomo - Ghost Rock
15. Sun Kil Moon - April
16. Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance
17. Neil on Impression - L'Oceano Delle Onde Che Restano Onde Per Sempre
18. Dark Suns - Grave Human Genuine
19. The Evpatoria Report - Maar
20. Thrice - The Alchemy Index Vols. III & IV
21. Ray LaMontagne - Gossip in the Rain
22. School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms
23. The Samuel Jackson Five - Goodbye Melody Mountain
24. Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
25. This Is Your Captain Speaking - Eternal Return
Honorable Mentions:
Atmosphere - When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold
Balmorhea - Rivers Arms
Bitcrush - Epilogue in Waves
Downliners Sekt - The Saltire Wave
Grails - Doomsdayer's Holiday
Gregor Samsa - Rest
Helios - Caesura
Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
M83 - Saturdays=Youth
Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers
Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
Protest the Hero - Fortress
September Malevolence - After This Darkness, There's a Next
Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
sleepmakeswaves - In Today Already Walks Tomorrow
The Secret Machines - Secret Machines
Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation
Top 10 anticipated releases which failed to deliver:
1. Russian Circles - Station
2. Morcheeba - Dive Deep
3. This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You
4. Cult of Luna - Eternal Kingdom
5. Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart
6. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
7. We Are Scientists - Brain Thrust Mastery
8. The Shy Trafficker - Hard Fought, Found Thought
9. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple
10. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
The year's top five most overrated releases:
1. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
2. The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
3. Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death and All His Friends
4. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5. She & Him - Volume One
Lists may be updated as I sift through the (large) remainder of homework albums, releases I haven't gotten to yet, including LP's from the following:
Because of Ghosts
Lights Out Asia
Longwave
Mouth of the Architect
The Cure
The Killers
thisquietarmy
TV On the Radio
Windy & Carl