JR

BEST OF 2008…

Olof Arnalds Vid Og Vid
Black Mountain In The Future
Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
Peter Broderick Home
David Byrne/Brian Eno Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
Coldplay Viva La Vida
El Perro Del Mar From The Valley To The Stars
Goldfrapp Seventh Tree
Jolie Holland The Living And The Dead
Hot Chip Made In The Dark
Frida Hyvönen Silence is Wild
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue
Lindstrøm Where You Go I Go Too
Lykke Li Youth Novels
M83 Saturdays = Youth
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Plants & Animals Parc Avenue
Portishead Third
Razorlight Slipway Fire

albums the young JR would’ve put on his list

Beach House Devotion
Blitzen Trapper Furr
Deerhunter Microcastle
Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair
Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend

reissues…

Rodriguez Cold Fact
Traveling Wilburys Vol 1
U2 Joshua Tree, et al
Dennis Wilson Pacific Ocean Blue

in concert

Occlusion

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Chris

BLEEPS

1. Autechre Quaristice
2. Ricardo Villalobos Vasco
3. Deadbeat Roots & Wire
4. Osborne Osborne
5. Lindstrøm Where You Go I Go Too
6. Morgan Geist Double Night Time
7. The Mole As High As The Sky
8. Sten The Essence
9. Flying Lotus Los Angeles
10. Byetone Death Of A Typographer

POPS

1. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes & Sun Giant EP
2. TV On The Radio Dear Science
3. Black Mountain In The Future
4. Portishead Third
5. Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair
6. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
7. Shearwater Rook
8. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!!
9. Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War)
10. Cadence Weapon Afterparty Babies

TRACKS

1. “Blind” Hercules & Love Affair from Hercules & Love Affair
2. “Wucan” Black Mountain from In The Future
3. “Feedback In The Field” Plants & Animals from Parc Avenue
4. “Century Eyes” Shearwater from Rook
5. “Xberg Ghosts” Deadbeat from Roots & Wire

for a list & breakdown of my favourite tracks that slaughtered the dancefloor @ Lucky Bar this year, go here

REISSUES

1. Basic Channel BCD-2
2. Colourbook Colourbook
3. Gas Nah Und Fern

COMPS

1. Old Life Records Vol. 2
2. Death From Abroad Presents Supersoul Recordings: Nobody Knows Anything
3. Steppas’ Delight

2007 ALBUMS THAT DIDN’T LEAVE THE iPOD

1. Bruno Pronsato Why Can’t We Be Like Us
2. Yeasayer All Hour Cymbals
3. Radiohead In Rainbows

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Tara

podium:

1. Ellen Allien Sool
2. Azeda Booth In Flesh Tones
3. Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing

shortlist:

4. Portishead Third
5. Women Women
6. Spiritualized Songs In A&E
7. M83 Saturdays=Youth
8. No Age Nouns
9. Atlas Sound Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
10. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!!

onward:

11. Ponytail Ice Cream Spiritual
12. Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane
13. Deerhunter Microcastle
14. Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna
15. Benoît Pioulard Temper
16. Eleanoora Rosenholm Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
17. MGMT Oracular Spectacular
18. Peter Bjorn & John Seaside Rock
19. The Lord Dog Bird The Lord Dog Bird
20. Max Richter 24 Postcards in Full Colour

electronic & minimalia:

1. Sascha Funke Mango
2. Byetone Death Of A Typographer
3. Paul Kalkbrenner Berlin Calling (OST)
4. Studio Yearbook 2
5. Bruno Prunsato Why Can’t We Be Like Us?

… Calgary (3); Berlin (4).

songs:

1. Azeda Booth “In Red” (from In Flesh Tones, Absolutely Kosher)
2. Department of Eagles “No One Does It Like You (from In Ear Park, 4AD)
3. Studio “Impossible: Possible Version (Shout Out Louds Remix)” (from Yearbook 2, Information)
4. Sascha Funke “Mango” (from Mango, Bpitch Control)
5. Styx Tyger “String Strikes” (from Styx Tyger [EP], self-released)
6. Spiritualized “Soul on Fire” (from Songs in A & E, Sanctuary)
7. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds “Dig, Lazurus Dig!!!” (from Dig, Lazurus Dig!!!, Mute)
8. The Radio Dept. “Freddie & The Trojan Horse” (from Freddie & The Trojan Horse EP, Labrador)
9. Wild Beasts “The Devil’s Crayon” (from Limbo Panto, Domino)
10. Paavoharju “Kevatrumpu” (from Laulu Laakson Kukista, Fonal)
11. Sigur Ros “Gobbledligook” (from Med Sed I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust, XL)
12. War On Drugs “Buenos Aires Beach” (from Wagonwheel Blues, Secretly Canadian)
13. Peter Bjorn & John “Inland Empire” (from Seaside Rock, Sony)
14. Dan Friel “Buzzards” (from Ghost Town, Important)
15. TV On The Radio “DLZ” (from Dear Science, Interscope)

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Talia

1. Portishead Third
2. Eleanoora Rosenholm Älä Kysy Kuolleilta, He Sanoivat
3. Frida Hyvönen Silence Is Wild
4. Lucky Dragons Dream Island Laughing Language
5. Benoît Pioulard Temper
6. Department Of Eagles In Ear Park
7. Helios Caesura
8. Empire of the Sun Walking On A Dream
9. Deerhunter Microcastle
10. Gang Gang Dance Saint Dymphna

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Kellen

TOP 10

1. Portishead Third
2. Hot Chip Made In The Dark
3. Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes
4. Deerhunter Microcastle
5. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Dig, Lazurus, Dig!!!
6. Flying Lotus Los Angeles
7. Frida Hyvönen Silence Is Wild
8. Chad VanGaalen Soft Airplane
9. TV On The Radio Dear Science
10. Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago

Honourable Mentions

Deerhoof Offend Maggie
MGMT Oracular Spectacular
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks Real Emotional Trash
Clinic Do It!
Ellen Allien Sool
Black Mountain In The Future
The Bug London Zoo
Quiet Village Silent Movie
Animal Collective Water Curses EP
Neil Young Sugar Mountain: Live At Canterbury Hose 1968
Wolf Parade At Mount Zoomer
Cadence Weapon Afterparty Babies
Plants & Animals Parc Avenue
Benga Diary Of An Afro Warrior
Little Joy Little Joy
Alexis Taylor Rubbed Out
Autechre Quaristice
Born Ruffians Red, Yellow, Blue
Stereolab Chemical Chords
Sloan Parallel Play
Colourbook Colourbook
Blitzen Trapper Furr
No Age Nouns
Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair

Gigs (Kellen’s year of arena rock!)

1. Neil Young w/ Death Cab For Cutie & Everest: GM Place
2. Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: GM Place
3. Fleet Foxes w/ Frank Fairfeild: Element
4. Radiohead w/ Liars: Thunderbird Stadium
5. Clinic w/ Shearwater: Richards
6. Handsome Furs, Blitzen Trapper, Pride Tiger,… Rifflandia 2008: Lucky
7. Crystal Castles w/ dd/mm/yy: Element
8. Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks w/ The Joggers: Sugar
9. Three Inches Of Blood w/ Bison B.C, Run Like Hell: Sugar
10. Plants & Animals w/ Born Ruffians: Sugar

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Barnes

artist of the year

Trent Reznor

most listened to for 2008

Bon Iver For Emma, Forever Ago
M83 Saturdays=Youth
Black Mountain In the Future
Kills Midnight Boom
Lykke Li Youth Novels
Crystal Castles Crystal Castles
Ladyhawk Shots
Kings Of Leon Only By The Night
Ladyhawke Ladyhawke
Fleet Foxes Fleet Foxes

other purchased keepers

Bison B.C. Quiet Earth
Hot Chip Made In the Dark
Mr. Oizo Lambs Anger (um, downloaded…)
Nine Inch Nails The Slip
Sons & Daughters This Gift
Earth The Bee Made Honey In The Lion’s Skull
The Presets Apocalypso
Booka Shade The Sun & The Neonlight
Sigur Rós Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust
The Organ Thieves
Cut Copy In Ghost Colours
Oasis Dig Out Your Soul
Metallica Death Magnetic
These Arms Are Snakes Tail Swallower & Dove
The Cure 4:13 Dream
Brian Jonestown Massacre My Bloody Underground
Frida Hyvönen Silence Is Wild
Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan Sunday At Devil Dirt
Belle & Sebastian BBC Sessions
R.E.M. Murmur: Deluxe Edition
Nine Inch Nails Ghosts I-IV
Hercules & Love Affair Hercules & Love Affair
Fuck Buttons Street Horrrsing
Sun Kil Moon/Mark Kozelek April/Nights & The Finally LP
Black Mountain Lucy Brown/Shelter 7”
Catfish Haven Devastator
Kanye West 808’s & Heartbreak
Ratatat LP3
TV On The Radio Dear Science
Jenny Lewis Acid Tongue
The Sea & Cake Car Alarm
Ellen Allien Sool
REM Accelerate
The Faint Fasciination
El Perro Del Mar From The Valley To The Stars
Crystal Stilts Alight Of Night
Past Lives Strange Symmetry

2007 holdovers

A Place To Bury Strangers A Place To Bury Strangers

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