In the spirit of the end of the year and best of lists, I am trying to jump the gun. For most of these bands, I either saw them this year, or the album came out this year. Except the Jam, gotta have an oldie. I really just needed to get my list out before Pitchfork Media. That way I have my vote in.
- Fake Empire-The National
Album: Boxer - Too Drunk To Dream-Magnetic Fields
Album:Distortion - So Everyone-Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy
Album:Lie Down In The Light - Curs Of Weeds-Horse Feathers
Album: House With No Home - From The Top Of The World-My Brightest Diamond
Album: A Thousand Shark’s Teeth - Used to Be-Beach House
From: Used to Be – Single - All the Old Showstoppers-The New Pornographers
Album: Challengers - Our Life Is Not A Movie Or Maybe-Okkervil River
Album: The Stage Names - Inní mér syngur vitleysingur-Sigur Rós
Album: Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust - Drops in the River-Fleet Foxes
Album: Sun Giant [EP] - Talking Bird-Death Cab For Cutie
Album: Narrow Stairs - Do What You Can Do-Constantines
Album: Kensington Heights - I Like That-Daniel Lanois
Album: Here Is What Is - Meet Me By The River’s Edge-Gaslight Anthem
Album: The ’59 Sound - Undeclared-The Dodos
Album: Visiter - The General Specific-Band Of Horses
Album: Cease To Begin - Churches Under The Stairs-Broken Social Scene Presents: Brendan Canning
Album: Something For All of Us… - Lucky Ones-Broken Social Scene Presents Kevin Drew
Album: Spirit If… - Let’s Not Pretend (to Be New Men)-Crooked Fingers
Album: Forfeit_Fortune - Searching For The Ghost-Heartless Bastards
Album:All This Time - London Girl-The Jam
Album: This is the Modern World - Death Take Your Fiddle-Spiritualized
Album: Songs in A&E - A-Punk-Vampire Weekend
Album: Vampire Weekend
Have A listen to the Keith Wikle Playlist Best of 2008 here.
In retrospect 23 is a strange number for a top ten list.