Read & Listen

Assigning places to music is very hard and relative. I more or less managed with 1-20, though after the top 5, it was hard to decide what I liked better. And this all is very, very subjective. So, don’t judge - or do, it’s all up to you. I can only say that my favorite albums of the year were the great comebacks, Portishead, which was acknowledged by everyone, and underrated Tricky. Don’t know, but I found it a great album, and Tricky is still one of the best poets alive. And Jersey - these guys brought hours and hours of my listening to their new album. Concerned about being biased, I didn’t give them 1st place, but they come as #3 not because I happen to know them personally, but just because the album is so good! Anyway, here it goes - top 20 and other favorites whose places I wasn’t able to figure out.

1. Portishead – Third
2. Tricky – Knowle West Boy
3. Jersey – Itinerary
4. High Places – High Places
5. Flying Lotus – Los Angeles
6. The Sea and Cake – Car Alarm
7. The Cure – 4:13 Dream
8. M83 – Saturdays=Youth
9. Max Richter – 24 Postcards in Full Colour
10. Fujiya & Miyagi – Lightbulbs
11. Air France - No Way Down EP
12. Mogran Geist – Double Night Time
13. The Notwist – The Devil, You + Me
14. She & Him – Volume One
15. Koushik – Out My Window
16. Moscow Olympics – Cut The World
17. Psapp – The Camel’s Back
18. Animal Collective – Water Curses EP
19. Four Tet - Ringer (no review, but the EP is great)
20. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs

Special Thanks:

Pram - Prisoner Of The Seven Pines EP
Kuryakin – Still Here EP
Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You
Amadou & Mariam – Welcome To Mali
Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair
Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna
Annie – Don’t Stop (let’s consider it 2008)
Johann Johannsson – Fordlandia
Hauschka – Ferndorf
Simon Bookish – Everything/Everything
Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
Rubies – Explode From The Center
Sigur Ros - ed sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust
Styrofoam – A Thousand Words
TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Ulrich Schnauss – Stars EP

The list of top tracks of 2008 is coming next.