It has been MONTHS since I wrote anything for this website and, although I am kidding myself if I think there's any sort of an audience reading these words, I will feel better if I get back into the habit of regularly updating things. For want of a better way to rekindle my clattering at the keyboard I thought I would try and write a top 10 albums of the year. However, I am having real difficulty honing down the list to just 10. So, here it is. The Top 20 Albums of the year 2008. Fact!

Some of the choices may have you nodding eagerly, congratulating yourself on your nuanced and clearly excellent taste. Other selections may cause you to laugh out loud, spraying your monitor with incredulous spittle. Regardless of which camp you find yourself in while reading these selections let me wish you all the very best for the coming year.

The list is not in any order of preference but follows the more conventional alphabetical listing.

1 to 20 (alphabetically)

1. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
2. Cat Power - Jukebox
3. Deerhunter - Microcastle
4. Duffy - Rockferry
5. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
6. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
7. Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree
8. The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia
9. Kings Of Leon - Only By The Night
10. Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
11. Malcolm Middleton - Sleight Of Heart
12. Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling
13. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!
14. Noah and The Whale - Peaceful The World Lays Me Down
15. Portishead - Third
16. Radiohead - In Rainbows
17. Sia - Some People Have Real Problems
18. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
19. Spiritualized - Songs in A & E
20. TV On The Radio - Dear Science

Bubbling under .......

 

AC/DC - Black Ice
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
Sun Kil Moon - April
Snow Patrol - A Hundred Million Suns