My Top Ten Albums of 2008
(in no particular order)
1. M83 // Saturday = Youth
2. Cloud Cult // Feel Good Ghosts
3. Beach House // Devotion
4. Santogold // S/T
5. Grouper // Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
6. Crystal Stilts // Alight Of Night
7. Marnie Stern // This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
8. These Arms Are Snakes // Tail Swallower And Dove
9. Xiu Xiu // Women As Lovers
10. Foals // Antidotes
Honorable Mentions:
Fleet Foxes // S/T
Of Montreal // Skeletal Lamping
The Black Keys // Attack & Release
Deerhunter // Microcastles
Okkervil River // The Stand-Ins
I think 2008 was a great year for music! I discovered some new artists (Crystal Stilts, Marnie Stern), and some of my old favorites released impressive new albums (These Arms Are Snakes, Cloud Cult).
I started listening to a great deal more noise, thanks to my boyfriend, who’s not only obsessed with the genre, but is a performer himself. I have to thank him for introducing me to Merzbow, Masonna, Yellow Swans, and for everything else that’s made my vision blur as I listened to it 
Apparently Britney Spears made a comeback, but I think I was taking a nap.
Here’s a non-knitting goal for this year: see more shows! I hope that These Arms Are Snakes, Rogue Wave, and Land of Talk have tour stops here in Western Mass, but I’ll be happy just to go. I used to see tons of shows in the early days of my undergrad career, but that’s tapered off in the past few years. Hopefully, I’ll be able to change that soon.
Sherwood out!
