So we're halfway through 2008; what are your top 10 albums of this year, so far?

i've liked lots of music this year but these are the main ones i got really in to and that lasted more than a week or so of serious listening

sic alps - us ez
nick cave & bad seeds - dig lazarus dig
the dutchess and the duke - she's the dutchess, he's the duke
harvey milk - life ... the best game in town
prairie spies - surplus enjoyment
the spectacles - home
wilderness - (k)no(w)here

other stuff i liked: fucked up, krallice, oh sees, flying lotus, gang gang dance, excepter, born ruffians, deerhoof, elf power/vic chesnutt

oh and guys don't forget my band's album is eligible for all your top ten list

ethan i think that reks album is hot too -- way better than dudes like skyzoo imo

its too bad i just realized the nyg'z was october of last year, was all ready to vote for it (tho i guess like half of it was more than a year old already anyway -- giantz ta this came out in like '04)

the-dream
erykah badu
q-tip
speedknot mobstaz
rebirth brass band
young jeezy
frankie knuckles "the gift" mix
gucci mane
webbie
peven everett

im excited about the scarface -- thats still coming out this year right??

and hon. mention for NYG'z

slight changes from the last time i posted in this thread lol

Props for choosing the Corb Lund album. Has this just came out in the UK or something? It was released in 2007 here in Canada.

(numerous xposts by the way)

We are no good at this.

As usual, our list goes to 11 and is in no particular order.

Quiet Village - Silent Movie
Santogold - s/t
Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams
Okkervil River - The Stand Insalubrious
Julie Ocean - Long Gone and Nearly There
Jim Noir - s/t
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park
Blitzen Trapper - Furr
Blackblack - s/t
Army Navy - s/t
The Kills - Midnight Boom

Honorable mention:

All-Girl Summer Fun Band, Antietam, Beck, Eagles of Death Metal, Earlimart, Envelopes, Girl Talk, Islands, Jay Reatard, Jolie Holland, Los Campesinos! (X2), Love Is All, Margot & the Nuclear So and So's, Mogwai, Mount Eerie w/Julie Doiron & Fred Squire, Nada Surf, No Age, School of Seven Bells, Shannon McArdle, Sigur Ros, Silver Jews, The Last Shadow Puppets
The Notwist, The Ting Tings, The Uglysuit, Vetiver, Vivian Girls, Wire

i've only heard one track off the army navy but it's great - need to get the whole lp

OK, The Stand Insalubrious is a pretty hilarious auto-complete error, no?

Also , I can't believe we forgot Deerhunter _and_ Deerhoof.

INPO:

Grouper - 'Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill'
The Chap - 'Mega Breakfast'
Paavoharju – 'Laulu Laakson Kukista'
Mount Eerie (et al) - 'Lost Wisdom' (under 25 minutes, but sublime)
Deerhoof - 'Offend Maggie'
7L & Esoteric – ‘..present Esoteric –vs- Japan: Pterodactyl Takes Tokyo’
Lucky Dragons – ‘Dream Island Laughing Language’
Gang Gang Dance – ‘Saint Dymphna’
John Baker - 'The John Baker Tapes Vols 1 & 2'
The Just Joans – ‘Hey Boy…You’re Oh So Sensitive’

I would put in the Telepathe record, but my "copy" appears to vary in tracklisting from the official tracklist, and the album technically comes out in 2009. But it is quite wonderous.

Crap, we also forgot the Future Clouds and Radar which is pretty excellent (I told you we're no good at this).

for against - shade side sunny side
de rosa - appendices 2008
arms - kids aflame
presets - apocalypso
yellow moon band - travels into several remote nations...
the hussy's - super pro
cause co-motion - it's time
friendly fires - s/t
manhattan love suicides - burnt out landscapes
cut off your hands - you and i

the graham day & the gaolers album will probably knock one of those out after i've heard it, on the strength of the EP and single that preceded it

is the new deerhoof more or less lol indie than their debut?

did you mean deerhunter? 'cause the new deerhoof is way less indie that the man the king the girl

The new Drhf rocks and swings, and is a joy. Much better than Friend Opportunity.

i think i meant deerhunter. and i've only heard the 1st one. i can probably find another thread 2 discuss~~

1. Morgan Geist - Double Night Time
2. Belong - Colorloss

then a bunch of stuff i only sort of like

Their aren't nearly as many consensus favorites this year as we had last year.

i don't think there are any consensus favorites this year. that's why i'm eager to see what wins the pazz and jop poll.

^^are you the motel de moka guy??

― ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), Thursday, 27 November 2008 21:40 (Yesterday)

I am. But I'm not a guy, my name is Julia. How you guess?

top 25 incl. reissues -- will undoubtedly change but this is what i'm thinking maybe:

1 SIC ALPS: US E-Z (Siltbreeze)
2 VIVIAN GIRLS: Vivian Girls (In the Red)
3 WOODEN SHJIPS: Vol 1 (Holy Mountain)
4 GROUPER: Dragging a Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
5 NODZZZ: Nodzzz (What's Yr Rupture)
6 CRYSTAL STILTS: Alight of Night (Siltbreeze)
7 EAT SKULL: Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
8 MINGERING MIKE: Super Gold Greatest Hits (Emusic)
9 DAN MELCHIOR UND DAS MENACE: X-mas for the Crows (Dagerman)
10 FAMOUS L RENFROE: Children (Big Legal Mess/ Fat Possum)
11 PIERCED ARROWS Straight for the Heart (Tombstone)
12 VARIOUS: VICTROLA FAVORITES (Dust to Digital)
13 JOLIE HOLLAND: The Living and the Dead (Anti-)
14 BLANK DOGS: On Two Sides (Troubleman)
15 VARIOUS: FIGHT ON YOUR TIME AIN'T LONG (Mississippi)
16 LOS LLAMARADA: Take the Sky (S-S)
17 ZOMES: Zomes (Holy Mountain)
18 THE RANK STRANGER: Purgatory (self-released CD-R -- no label)
19 VARIOUS: 1970s ALGERIAN PROTO-RAI UNDERGROUND (Sublime Frequencies)
20 CAUSE CO-MOTION!: It's Time! (Slumberland)
21 ILYAS AHMED: Between 2 Skies/ Towards the Night (Digitalis)
22 ALAN + RICHARD BISHOP: Present the Brothers Unconnected (tour CD, on Abduction)
23 INCA ORE: Birthday of Bless You (Not Not Fun)
24 RAVEONETTES: Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
25 SIC ALPS: Long Way Around to a Shortcut (Animal Disguise)

i really do wonder if people love that vivian girls record because they've heard black tambourine, or because they haven't...

i really do wonder if you really do wonder that

i stopped

gonna have to revise mine eventually, every new person that posts lists something I forgot (which is a good sign I guess)

Eat Skull is DEF. in my top ten

The list I posted isn't definitive. I'll probably end up eliminating fleet foxes at all and substitute with the Middle East or perhaps even the Vetiver record. As I said elsewhere I have a love-hate relationship with them fleet foxes, it all depends of how I feel about them when the time comes.

My top 4 picks are definitley staying in there though.

just got the Kanye with lots of other stuff I need to catch up on, but as of now, something like this:

1. Los Campesinos -- Hold On Now, Youngster
2. Raphael Saadiq -- the Way I See It
3. Hold Steady -- Stay Positive
4. Drive-By Truckers -- Brighter Than Creation's Dark
5. Orchestra Baobab -- Made in Dakar
6. Kimya Dawson -- Alphabutt
7. Vampire Weekend -- Vampire Weekend
8. Jay Reatard -- Matador Singles
9. Lil Wayne -- Carter III
10. Roots -- Rising Down

Should somebody (preferably the people who also manage the polls) start the annual albums and songs nomination threads? I think we're ready for it. No reason to wait as long as we did last year, I think.

Hi Moka- I'm not a very bloggy dude but I like your blog. I found out about Air France through you and that's one of my favorites of the year!

So thanks.

People are sleeping on Kleerup and Mahjongg, I think?

you can still stream mahjongg, btw: krecs.com/mahjongg/kontpab

someone voted for the esoterrorist!!

Kleerup is mad boring.

I used to be bros with mahjhonng but haven't heard the new one. How is it?

Yeah, the Kleerup record is mad boring. "With Every Heartbeat" classic 4 life tho.

Not enough Carter III on these lists why?

its way overrated

01 - Air France - No Way Down EP
02 - Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
03 - of Montreal - skeletal lamping
04 - Dungen - 4
05 - John Maus - Love Is Real
06 - Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
07 - Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too
08 - Larkin Grim - Parplar
09 - Jóhann Jóhannsson - Fordlandia
10 - Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna

Eat Skull is DEF. in my top ten

FROM others, either

Hey ♪☺♫☻ (gr8080), glad to know you like the blog and that I helped introduce air france to you... it took me awhile to take ahold of them because I usually ignore hyperbolic bands on the blogosphere. I usually wait for the hype to die down and I pick the ones that survive it. Air France is a case in point, they're really good... I'll end up dropping them from my year end list because it's an ep though and I don't have enough of those this year to make a decent list.

I usually ignore hyperbolic bands on the blogosphere. I usually wait for the hype to die down and I pick the ones that survive it.

^^^^^

Been listening to my records again and I've finally sketched my top 10 list:

1. Paavoharju - Laulu Laakson Kukista
2. Jacaszek - Treny
3. Scott Tuma - Not for nobody
4. Shed - Shedding the Past
5. Tape - Luminarium
6. Fleet Foxes - s/t
7. Bruno Pronsato - Why Cant We Be Like Us
8. Grouper - Dragging a dead deer up a hill
9. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
10. Zdzislaw Piernik & Piotr Zabrodzki - Namanga

I usually make a top 12 album list because I really like that number. This is were it gets tricky for me because I have 17 albums in consideration for those two positions but they're so good I can't decide for either one of them. :(

Clark - Turning Dragon
Vetiver - Thing of the Past
Death Vessel - Nothing is good enough for us
Dungen - 4
Middle East - The Recordings of the Middle East
Keiji Haino - The 21st Century Hard-y-Guide-y Man: Koitsukara Usetaitameno Hakarigoto
Li Jianhong - San Sheng Shi
Vajra - Live
High Places - s/t
william parker - double sunrise over neptune
li jianhong - san sheng shi
sean mccann - flutter oasis
astro echo the echo from the purple dawn
datashock & shivers - vol IV
nasa - bummer daze
natural snow buildings - laurie bird

i like your list moka. i guess when you look at mine it's apparent why.

stephan mathieu - radioland (die schacatel)
bruno pronsato - why can't we be like us (hello? repeat)
idea fire company - the island of taste (swill radio)
tape - luminarium (hapna)
flying lotus - los angeles (warp)
move d & benjamin brunn - songs from the beehive (smallville)
natural snow buildings - the snowbringer cult (students of decay)
head of wantastiquet - mortange (ecstatic yod)
kurt vile - the constant hitmaker (gulcher)
mountains - mountains mountains mountains (catsup plate)

found populating a list of albums very difficult this year. there's a lot of stuff i've enjoyed the few times i've listened to it but never bothered going back to... the curse of ipod listening.

Still pondering my list - won't be till mid-December when I figure it out, I guess - but it's good to see so much love for Jacaszek! That's a wonderful album, esp. on headphones.

i can never do this. i usually have three solid favourites and fifty more i like a lot. this year it's just two: Kelley Polar and Lindstrom.

@resolved: Thanks. Have to admit I still haven't heard half of your list, will have to take a listen, are they ranked in order of favorites? Also are those the same Mountains that released 'Sewn' on Apestaartje two years ago? I love that one.