I fear I may have to play by the “best of” rules that everyone else plays by this year. As I have had to rip and encode all of my albums this year, I can’t tell which older releases I bought this year. So here are the 2008 releases:
- A Sound Legacy: 60 Years of Folkways Records and 20 Years of Smithsonian Folkways
- Accelerate — R.E.M.
- April — Sun Kil Moon
- Bad Case of History — Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians
- Cheap — Seasick Steve
- Como Now: The Voices of Panola Co., Mississippi
- Conor Oberst — Conor Oberst
- Devotion — Beach House
- Earth Sciences — Laura Barrett
- Electronic Projects for Musicians — The Apples in Stereo
- Everytime! — Sheesham and Lotus
- Funplex — The B-52’s
- Holler and Stomp — Dressy Bessy
- In a Cave — Elf Power
- Live at the Moonshine Café — Steve Payne with Al Lerman
- Live! From CarnEGGy Hall — Orriel Smith
- Luna — The Aliens
- Með Suð à Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust — Sigur Rós
- Modern Guilt — Beck
- Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes — The Music Tapes
- Proof of Love — Old Man Luedecke
- Recapturing The Banjo — Otis Taylor
- Sea Lion — The Ruby Suns
- Shadow Cat — Robyn Hitchcock
- Shall Noise Upon — Apollo Sunshine
- Skeletal Lamping — Of Montreal
- Soft Airplane — Chad Van Gaalen
- Spectrum 14th century — Final Fantasy
- That Lucky Old Sun — Brian Wilson
- The Living and The Dead — Jolie Holland
- The Singing Saw At Christmastime — Julian Koster
- Then We Were Older — Ideal Free Distribution
- Third — Portishead
- Turn the Water on, Boy! — The Coal Porters
- Victory Garden — Laura Barrett
- Volume One — She & Him
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