So usually around this time (or a week ago) I make my top ten albums of the year list. There are several reasons I have not done so yet. I haven't really fallen in love with a lot of stuff this year, practically every other top ten list I have seen so far makes me want to barf, and I have clearly lost the will to blog. Nonetheless, it is tradition, so here are ten albums from 2008 that don't suck, and as little bullshit as I can contain myself to about them.
10 Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
It's good to know there is still excellent country music still being made, and fucking hilarious that it's being made in Canada, complete with ice-hockey-themed music videos.
9 Blood on the Wall - Liferz
They sound like Kim Gordon fronting the Pixies, except for the times they sound like Frank Black fronting Sonic Youth.
8 Sigur Ros - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
It Sigur Ros! And they are happy! HORRAY!
7 Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Modern Life
Angry shouting with loud guitars, and then more shouting. Then some curiously nice noodly bits. And then shouting.
6 Experimental Aircraft - Third Transmission
Shoegaze isn't dead, and Experimental Aircraft is here to remind us all of this.
5 Gregor Samsa - Rest
Huuuuuugz.
4 Monroe Mustang - Monroe Mustang, the Imaginary Band, Regretfully Declines
They are one of my favorite bands of all time, and I thought they had broken up, but it turns out they just needed ten years to make this record, so fuck you, it's number 4.
3 Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Jason Pierce is still taking drugs to make music to take drugs to, and god bless his heart for it.
2 All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking Into It
They are basically the most perfectly named band ever. The fact that it's the dead of winter sort of detracts from the perfectness of the album, but wait six months and listen to it again, I promise you will get it.
1 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
I believe the metaphor I used earlier was eating a box of crayons and shitting gold. It still stands.
10 Kathleen Edwards - Asking For Flowers
It's good to know there is still excellent country music still being made, and fucking hilarious that it's being made in Canada, complete with ice-hockey-themed music videos.
9 Blood on the Wall - Liferz
They sound like Kim Gordon fronting the Pixies, except for the times they sound like Frank Black fronting Sonic Youth.
8 Sigur Ros - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
It Sigur Ros! And they are happy! HORRAY!
7 Fucked Up - The Chemistry of Modern Life
Angry shouting with loud guitars, and then more shouting. Then some curiously nice noodly bits. And then shouting.
6 Experimental Aircraft - Third Transmission
Shoegaze isn't dead, and Experimental Aircraft is here to remind us all of this.
5 Gregor Samsa - Rest
Huuuuuugz.
4 Monroe Mustang - Monroe Mustang, the Imaginary Band, Regretfully Declines
They are one of my favorite bands of all time, and I thought they had broken up, but it turns out they just needed ten years to make this record, so fuck you, it's number 4.
3 Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
Jason Pierce is still taking drugs to make music to take drugs to, and god bless his heart for it.
2 All Girl Summer Fun Band - Looking Into It
They are basically the most perfectly named band ever. The fact that it's the dead of winter sort of detracts from the perfectness of the album, but wait six months and listen to it again, I promise you will get it.
1 Girl Talk - Feed the Animals
I believe the metaphor I used earlier was eating a box of crayons and shitting gold. It still stands.
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