Best of 2008

Algum dinheiro extra recolhido nesta fase de Natal e aniversário (é verdade), ainda permitiu a aquisição de mais alguns discos, e após muita “reflexão”, anexo a sempre polémica lista dos melhores do ano. Como é sempre difícil a ordenação, a selecção está por “grupos”, para ser mais democrático.

Top 5
Deerhunter – “Microcastle” (Kranky)
Fleet Foxes – “Fleet Foxes” (Bella Union/Sub Pop)
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – “Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!!” (Mute)
Portishead – “Third” (Island)
TV On The Radio – “Dear Science” (4AD)

Top 15
Atlas Sound - “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” (Kranky)
Bon Iver – “For Emma, Forever Ago” (Jagjaguwar)
Drive-By Truckers – “Brighter Than Creation’s Dark” (New West)
Foals - "Antidotes" (Transgressive)
High Places – “High Places” (Thrill Jockey)
My Brightest Diamond – “A Thousand Shark’s Teeth” (Asthmatic Kitty)
Ra Ra Riot - “The Rhumb Line” (Barsuk)
The Ruby Suns – “Sea Lion” (Sub Pop)
Why? – “Alopecia” (Anticon)
Young Knives – “Superabundance” (Transgressive)

Top 40
Awesome Color – “Electric Aborigines” (Ecstatic Peace)
Beck – “Modern Guilt” (XL)
Bonnie “Prince” Billy – “Lie Down In The Light” (Drag City)
British Sea Power – “Do You Like Rock Music?” (Rough Trade)
DeVotchka - “A Mad & Faithful Telling” (Anti)
Erykah Badu – “New Amerykah Part One (4th World War)” (Motown)
Evangelista - “Hello, Voyager” (Constellation)
Foge Foge Bandido – “Foge Foge Bandido” (Turbina)
Fuck Buttons - “Street Horrrsing” (ATP)
Fujiya & Miyagi – “Lightbulbs” (Grönland)
Human Bell - “Human Bell” (Thrill Jockey)
No Age – “Nouns” (Sub Pop)
Mogwai – “The Hawk Is Howling” (Rock Action)
Ricardo Villalobos – “Vasco” (Perlon)
Robert Forster - “The Evangelist” (Yep Roc)
Santogold – “Santogold” (Downtown/Lizard King)
School of Language - “Sea From Shore” (Thrill Jockey)
Spiritualized – “Songs In A&E” (Fontana)
Stereolab - “Chemical Chords” (4AD)
The Fall – “Imperial Wax Solvent” (Sanctuary)
The Kills – “Midnight Boom” (Domino)
The Walkmen – “You & Me” (Gigantic)
The Week That Was – “The Week That Was” (Memphis Industries)
Two Banks of Four - “Junkyard Gods” (Sonar Kollektiv)
Xiu Xiu - “Women as Lovers” (Kill Rock Stars)