It’s the end of the year, I work in a record shop, it’s only fair that I compile a list of my top 50 albums of 2008. If you want to agree, argue or call me a prick, please feel free to post comments, it’d be good to see what other people have listened to this year. Here’s mine:
Matt’s Festive 50
1. Los Campesinos! – Hold On Now Youngster
2. Attack In Black – Marriage
3. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
4. Frank Turner – Love Ire & Song
5. Langhorne Slim – Langhorne Slim
6. American Princes – Other People
7. Los Campesinos! – We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed
8. Hyacinth House – Black Crows’ Country
9. Tokyo Police Club – Elephant Shell
10. Johnny Foreigner – Waited Up ‘Til It Was Light
11. Bedford Falls – Savings And Loans
12. Lupen Crook & The Murderbirds – Iscariot The Ladder
13. Blitzen Trapper – Furr
14. Drever/McCusker/Woomble – Before The Ruin
15. Bowerbirds – Hymns For A Dark Horse
16. Ryan Adams – Cardinology
17. We Are The Physics – Are OK
18. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins
19. Frightened Rabbit – The Midnight Organ Fight
20. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive
21. The Miserable Rich – Twelve Ways To Count
22. Threatmantics – Upbeat Love
23. Bellowhead – Matachin
24. Woodpigeon – Songbook
25. Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip – Angles
26. The Felice Brothers – The Felice Brothers
27. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
28. Dartz – The Sad History Of The Village Of Alnerique
29. Hey Negrita – You Can Kick
30. The Wedding Present – El Rey
31. Sun Kil Moon – April
32. Dananananakroyd – Sissy Hits EP
33. Dark Captain Light Captain – Miracle Kicker
34. Mark Olson & Gary Louris – Ready For The Flood
35. The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
36. Mimas – The Worries
37. The Loved Ones – Build & Burn
38. Against Me! – New Wave
39. Blakfish – See You In Another City
40. Marvins Revolt – Killec
41. Alkaline Trio – Agony & Irony
42. Counting Crows – Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings
43. Bloc Party – Intimacy
44. Hayden – In Field & Town
45. Fucked Up – The Chemistry Of Common Life
46. This Town Needs Guns – Animals
47. Lemuria – Get Better
48. Conor Oberst – Conor Oberst
49. Duels – The Barbarians Move In
50. Mogwai – The Hawk Is Howling
