Friday, January 2, 2009

Happy New Year + Favourites of 2008!


First of all, i hope all my readers had a fantastic christmas & new year break. 2009.. damn, it's like 1999 but.. ten years later. Oh boy how time flies. Unlike a lot of other people, i actually thought 2008 was a damn fine year in music. It introduced me to a handful of great new groups and artists including Fleet Foxes, Black Mountain, Crystal Antlers, Bon Iver & Ancestors, just to name a few. Below you will find a list of my favourite albums (in no particular order) from the year that was, i might even get around to uploading some of them soon.

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Black Mountain - In The Future
Opeth - Watershed
East of the Wall - Farmers Almanac
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
Equus - Eutheria
Hush Arbors - Hush Arbors
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
Elephant9 - Dodovoodoo
Woven Hand - Ten Stones
The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
Witch - Paralyzed
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull
Crystal Antlers - Crystal Antlers EP
Enslaved - Vertebrae
Brightblack Morning Light - Motion To Rejoin
Dead Meadow - Old Growth
Sahg - II
Ane Brun - Changing of the Seasons
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes
Dungen - 4
Ebu Gogo - Worlds
Ancestors - Neptune With Fire
The Big Sleep - Sleep Forever
One Day As A Lion - One Day As A Lion
Birds and Buildings - Bantom To Behemoth
Beck - Modern Guilt
Sumner Mckane - What A Great Place To Be
Ocoai - Breatherman
The American Dollar - A Memory Stream
Anna Ternheim - Leaving On a Mayday
Balmorhea - Rivers Arms
Mogwai - The Hawk is Howling
Bar Kokhba - Lucifer: Book of Angels Volume I

Bring on 2009! I can't wait to hear the new Black Bonzo, and i'm also very curious to see what the new Alice in Chains record will be like with that butt pipe Duvall taking over lead vocals. Jerry is the man, and i trust he won't sell us short!

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