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Best Of 2008: Albums Of The Year

Jun 25, 2009, 11:00am The Rawking Refuses To Stop!

Women / photo by David Greenwald Apologies for the tardiness, folks, but with some distance from the - let's just go ahead and say it - shitty trends that characterized 2008, I feel pretty good about the year. It didn't offer a lot of new classics to my ears, but it was a fantastic time for indie-folk (excluding Bon Iver: Shitty!) and new artists, or at least those who were fresh to me - I became a Hold Steady and Mountain Goats convert, and the debuts of Fleet Foxes, Women and White Hinterland, among others, have [...]

• Calexico - Two Silver Trees
• Crushed Stars - Spies
• Cut Copy - Unforgettable Season
• Destroyer - Foam Hands
• Faded Paper Figures - B Film
• Fleet Foxes - White Winter Hymnal
• Leona Naess - Leave Your Boyfriends
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Glue Girls
• Strugglers - Morningside Heights
• The Mountain Goats - Sax Rohmer #1
• Vampire Weekend - Oxford Comma
• White Hinterland - Dreaming of the Plum Trees
• Women - Black Rice

Artist:	Calexico
Title:	Two Silver Trees
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File Name:	02 Two Silver Trees.mp3
Bitrate:	175 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Crushed Stars
Title:	Spies
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File Name:	01 Spies.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Cut Copy
Title:	Unforgettable Season
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Bitrate:	256 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Destroyer
Title:	Foam Hands
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Bitrate:	230 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Faded Paper Figures
Title:	B Film
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File Name:	B Film.mp3
Year:	2008

Artist:	Fleet Foxes
Title:	White Winter Hymnal
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Bitrate:	198 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Leona Naess
Title:	Leave Your Boyfriends
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Bitrate:	177 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin
Title:	Glue Girls
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File Name:	01 Glue Girls.mp3
Bitrate:	320 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Strugglers
Title:	Morningside Heights
Link Text:	mp3
File Name:	Strugglers - Latest Rights - 01 - Morningside Heights.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	The Mountain Goats
Title:	Sax Rohmer #1
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File Name:	sax rhomer.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Vampire Weekend
Title:	Oxford Comma
Link Text:	mp3
File Name:	02 Oxford Comma.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	White Hinterland
Title:	Dreaming of the Plum Trees
Link Text:	mp3
File Name:	02 - Dreaming of the Plum Trees.mp3
Bitrate:	249 kbps
Year:	2008

Artist:	Women
Title:	Black Rice
Link Text:	mp3
File Name:	04 Black Rice.mp3
Bitrate:	192 kbps
Year:	2008

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