Music Blog Zeitgeist 2008

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Explore The Top 50 Albums of 2008

Click on the album cover to stream each album in its entirety or browse through reviews by music blogs on the right!

1. 30Why? • Alopecia

   395 Total Album Points 34 Total List Mentions 4.1 Avg Album Rank

   

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   My album of the year. A self-contained universe of found sounds and marble-mouthed rhymes that trip off the tongue like lyrical hairballs. READ POST »

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2. 29Hot Chip • Made In the Dark

   396 Total Album Points 44 Total List Mentions 6.3 Avg Album Rank

   

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   The major off-putting thing about this album is the disturbing repetition of the vocals on some songs. Other than that, a solid dance album. READ POST »

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3. 28Department of Eagles • In Ear Park

   413 Total Album Points 43 Total List Mentions 5.8 Avg Album Rank

   

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   An album beamed in from an alternate history of pop music, existing in its own era (even if it does sound a bit like Grizzly Bear). READ POST »

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4. 27Beach House • Devotion

   427 Total Album Points 43 Total List Mentions 5.6 Avg Album Rank

   

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   It's dark, a little creepy, and if it happens to be raining where you are, it'll provide the perfect soundtrack. READ POST »

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5. 26My Morning Jacket • Evil Urges

   435 Total Album Points 42 Total List Mentions 5.2 Avg Album Rank

   

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   Nonplussed with it. MMJ are wildly inconsistent. READ POST »

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6. 25Kanye West • 808s & Heartbreak

   453 Total Album Points 48 Total List Mentions 6 Avg Album Rank

   

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   Kanye=rapper, producer, and, now, song-writer. This is a love it or hate it album. I, for one, love it. READ POST »

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7. 24Okkervil River • The Stand Ins

   483 Total Album Points 47 Total List Mentions 5.3 Avg Album Rank

   

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   Music about musicians, while slightly masturbatory, works out for the better on this finely wrought, lyrically superb concept record. READ POST »

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8. 23Kings of Leon • Only By the Night

   494 Total Album Points 45 Total List Mentions 4.7 Avg Album Rank

   

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   Every song bests the previous. Fun to rock out on full blast. READ POST »

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9. 22Lil Wayne • Tha Carter III

   499 Total Album Points 49 Total List Mentions 5.4 Avg Album Rank

   

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   OK, it’s true: he really is the best rapper alive. READ POST »

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10. 21She & Him • Volume One

    540 Total Album Points 56 Total List Mentions 5.8 Avg Album Rank

    

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    Their acoustic vibe conjures up a time-travel fantasy of key parties, hot tubs and Chablis-crazed groping behind the spider plants. READ POST »

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