Like GaZZwa, I didn't get nearly as much new music this year as in 2007! Plus I didn't really get to play some albums as much as I probably should have because this year I have been pretty busy and aösp listened to about as much music on my mp3 player as on computer and I'm way too lazy to constantly switch music on it.
Anyway, it was a pretty good year but ultimately 2007 was a lot better in my opinion. Lots of good albums were released but my very favorites would probably include:
Opeth - Watershed
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Snowman - The Horse, The Rat And The Swan
Meshuggah - obZen
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Textures - Silhouettes
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Cynic - Traced in Air
Anathallo - Canopy Glow
Portishead - Third
The Fall of Troy - Phantom on the Horizon
Ours - Mercy
Sadistik - The Balancing Act
The Mighty Underdogs - Droppin' Science Fiction
No-Man - Schoolyard Ghosts
Deerhunter - Microcastle
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (also Sun Giant EP which has their best song Mykonos)
Coldplay - Viva La Vida
But there were other good albums too. I liked new Gojira but it didn't live up to From Mars to Sirius. New Marillion is pretty good but it's too long and I can't really sit through it, although it's partly because I have kinda grown out of Marillion. New Kayo Dot was good too but I would be lying if I said it didn't ultimately disappoint me. Then there are some other artists with new releases I quite liked, like Pineapple Thief, Sun Kil Moon, Balmorhea, Cut/Copy, Earth, Elliott Brood, Paavoharju, Nomo, Portugal. the Man, Sigur Rós and probably more but none of that really stood out that much now that I think about it. I mean it's all good and I mean
good because there are a lot of more albums I enjoyed but these are among the best ones. I can't be bothered to start thinking about every possible album though.
I still need to listen to some stuff like new TV on the Radio, Common Market and Burst.
By the way, as far as hip-hop goes, I can't really think of many good albums I heard this year but then again, I didn't really get that many albums anyway. I probably liked Sadistik and The Mighty Underdogs the most, new Atmosphere was pretty good too. I still haven't heard new Cyne. I also need to listen to Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip because a few friends say it's great although Pitchfork gave it 0.1 or something, but that at least intrigues me. Little Vic released a pretty promising record called Each Dawn I Die as well but I have only heard it once so I can't really say anything about it yet. If I missed some good releases I could like (anything like Dälek, Sage Francis, K'naan, Deltron 3030, DJ Shadow, RJD2, El-P, Aesop Rock, Cunninlynguists, Blackalicious blah blah), go ahead and recommend them to me.
why? - alopecia
Dicko recommended this album to me and while it's pretty good, I just can't seem to really get into it. I'll give it another try.
