Blog: Little White Earbuds

Every time the album format is declared dead for dance music a slew of great full lengths arrive to attest to the contrary. In this regard 2008 was no different, offering bountiful evidence that the extended format is a great canvas for electronic music of all stripes, from treated avant-garde to finely textured techno experimentalism, fathoms deep house music to expansive dub techno, and many styles in between. Here are LWE's top 10 albums of 2008 as selected by our staff, each one a nail in the coffin of the phrase "the album is dead." [...]