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has been a month-long process. I generally follow the "if i could have only one album from 08, what would i choose?" formula... but i also take into consideration: replayability, enjoyability, overall texture, the feel/mood, cohesion, and durability (will i like this album next year?).
1. Flying Lotus__Los Angeles
2. Gang Gang Dance__Saint Dymphna
3. Wavves__Wavves
4. Grouper__Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill
5. The Hospitals__Hairdryer Peace
6. The Music Tapes__Music Tapes For Clouds and Tornadoes
7. Grails__Doomsdayer's Holiday
8. Ducktails__ II
9. Clark__Turning Dragon
10. Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti__Oddities Sodomies Vol. 1
11. Abe Vigoda__Skeleton
12. Girl Talk__Feed the Animals
13. No Age__Nouns
14. Fennesz__Black Sea
15. Black Pus__Black Pus 4: All Aboard the Magic Pus
16. Excepter__Debt Dept.
17. Samiyam__Rap Beats Vol. 1
18. Growing__All the Way
19. The Goslings__Occasion
20. Arthur Russell__Love Is Overtaking Me
21. Pocahaunted__Island Diamonds
22. Emeralds__Solar Bridge
23. GZA__Pro Tools
24. Bardo Pond__Batholith
25. Vivian Girls__Vivian Girls
26. Lucky Dragons__Dream Island Laughing
27. Stag Hare__Black Medicine Music
28. Wet Hair__The Beach
29. Fire On Fire__The Orchard
30. James Blackshaw__Litany of Echoes
31. Ponytail__Ice Cream Spiritual
32. Eat Skull__Sick to Death
33. Raccoo-oo-oon__Racoo-oo-oon
34. Atlas Sound__Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel
35. Ryoji Ikeda__Test Patterns
36. David Grubbs__An Optimist Notes the Dusk
37. Black Milk__Tronic
38. Gary War__New Raytheonport
39. Lil Wayne__Tha Carter III
40. Zach Hill__Astrological Straits
41. The Bug__London Zoo
42. Okay__Huggable Dust
43. Evangelicals__The Evening Descends
44. Deerhunter__Microcastle/Weird Era
45. Our Sleepless Forest__Our Sleepless Forest
46. Magic Lantern__High Beams
47. Crystal Castles__Crystal Castles
48. High Places__High Places
49. Blank Dogs__On Two Sides
50. Beach House__Devotion
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