Best of Rock 2008
(Read the reviews)
8/10
7.5/10
- Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi (Archive)
- Juana Molina: Un Dia (Domino)
- Helmut Schafer: Noise As A Language (Kwanyin)
- Jacaszek: Treny (Miasmah)
- Evol Intent: Era of Diversion (System)
- Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (ATP)
- Billy Bao: Dialectics Of Shit (Parts Unknown)
- Koen Holtkamp: Field Rituals (Type)
- Krallice: Krallice (Profound Lore)
- Dodos: Visiter (Frenchkiss)
7/10
- Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Lost In Reflections (Killer Pimp)
- Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL)
- Bug: London Zoo (Ninja Tune)
- Have A Nice Life: Deathconsciousness (Enemies List)
- Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil (20 Buck Spin)
- Jasper TX: Black Sleep (Miasmah)
- Gnaw Their Tongues: For All Slaves A Song Of False Hope (Burning World Records)
- Wavves: Wavves (Woodsist)
- Crystal Castles: Crystal Castles (PIAS)
- Zebulon Pike: Intransience (Unfortunate Music)
- Fleet Foxes: Fleet Foxes (Subpop)
- Beat Circus: Dreamland (Cuneiform)
- Christian Fennesz: Black Sea (Touch)
- Lindstrom: Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
- No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
- Terminal Sound System: Constructing Towers (Extreme)
- Alps: III (Type)
- Leviathan: Massive Conspiracy Against All Life (Moribund)
- Ida Maria: Fortress Round My Heart (Waterfall)
- Badu: New Amerykah Part One - 4th World War (Motown)
- Journey To Ixtlan: Journey To Ixtlan (Aurora Borealis)
- White Denim: Workout Holiday (Full Time Hobby)
- Nekrasov: The Form Of Thought From Beast (Exotic Corpse)
- Leila Arab: Blood Looms And Blooms (Warp)
- Evangelicals: The Evening Descends (Dead Oceans)
- Mark McGuire: Guitar Meditations (Wagon)
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Playlist
- Vivian Girls: Tell the World
- Vampire Weekend: M79
- Dodos: Jodi
- Florence and the Machine: Kiss with a Fist
- Evol Intent: The Curtain Falls
- White Denim: Let's Talk About It
- Bug: Angry
- No Age: Sleeper Hold
- Billy Bao: I Am Billy Bao Right Here Right Now
- Vivian Girls: Going Insane
- Crystal Castles: XXZXCUZX Me
- Beat Circus: The Rough Riders
- Beach House: Wedding Bell
- Fleet Foxes: English House
- Vivian Girls: Such A Joke
- Portishead: We Carry On
- Mountain Goats: Lovecraft in Brooklyn
- Drive-By Truckers: Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife
- Fleet Foxes: White Winter Hymnal
- Leila Arab: Mettle
- Crystal Antlers: Vexation
- Dodos: Fools
- Late Of The Pier: Broken
- Marnie Stern: Transformer
- Rebotini: 1314
- Portishead: Machine Gun
- Magnetic Fields: Please Stop Dancing
- Stephen Malkmus: Baltimore
- Hercules And Love Affair: Blind
- Magnetic Field: California Girls
- Drive-by Truckers: Self-Destructive Zones
- Wolf Parade: Soldier's Gun
- Ida Maria: I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked
- Leila Arab: The Exotics
- Bon Iver: Blood Bank
- Lykke Li: Little Bit
- Late Of The Pier: The Bears Are Coming
- Journey To Ixtlan: Burnt Coyote Teeth
- Valet: Fuck It
- Evangelicals: How Do You Sleep
- Blank Dogs: Spinning
- Nick Cave: Albert Goes West
- Jay Reatard: Painted Shut
- Thao Nguyen: Swimming Pools
- Wavves: California Goth
- Laura Marling: Night Terror
- That Handsome Devil: Rob the Prez-O-Dent
- JS666: Hot For Coco
- Coldplay: Viva La Vida
Extended tracks
- Li Jianhong: San Sheng Shi
- Fuck Buttons: Race You To My Bedroom/Spirit Rise
- Helmut Schafer: Thought Provoking
- Grails: Take Refuge
- Mark McGuire: Intervals
- Black Angels: Never/Ever
- Koen Holtkamp: Sky Flowers
- Pussygutt: She Hid Behind Her Veil
- Lindstrom: Where You Go To I Go Too
- Hjarnidaudi: March
- Sun Araw: Horse Steppin
- Jasper TX: Black Sheep
- Juana Molina: Los Hongos De Marosa
- Expo '70: Midnight Stalking/Dawn Of The Black Ohms
- Shit And Shine: High Brooms
- Mamaleek: Shout On Children
- Acid Mothers Temple: Cosmic Soul Death Disco
- Nisennenmondai: Mirrorball
- Eric Glick-Rieman: The Thrust Required to Hover
- Krallice: Cnestorial
- Sun Araw: Bridal Filly
- Matmos: Supreme Balloon
- Opeth: The Lotus Eater
- Sun Kil Moon: Lost Verses
- Fuck Buttons: Sweet Love For Planet Earth
- Have A Nice Life: Hunter
- Grails: Stoned At The Taj Again
- Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Himmelschreibende Herzen
- Mark McGuire: A Matter Of Time
- Ricardo Villalobos: Minimoonstar
- Acid Mothers Temple: Master Of The Cosmic Inferno
- Aufgehoben No Process: Jederfursich
- Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words: Forgive/Forget/Regret
- Stephen Malkmus: Real Emotional Trash
- Squadra Omega: Rennes Le Chateau
- Motorpsycho: Little Lucid Moments
- Angel: Effect Of Discovery, Test, Alarm, Catastrophy
- Mark McGuire: Night Owls
- Ascanio Borga: Apnea
- Jabladav: Homeland & Awe
- Nekrasov: The Form Of Thought From Beast
- Zebulon Pike: The Avian Magi
- Chris Connelly: Forgiveness and Exile
- Sun Araw: Fog Wheels
- Leviathan: Merging With Sword Onto Them
- JS666: 22 Hittia Korsoon
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Jazz
- Carla Bley: Appearing Nightly (Watt)
- Dave Holland: Pass it On (Dare2)
- Bill Frisell: History Mystery (Nonesuch)
- Leo Smith: Tabligh (Cuneiform)
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