Best of 2008 - Ben

Best Album
1. Cut Copy- In Ghost Colours
2. Bon Iver- For Emma Forever Ago
3. Hot Chip- Made In the Dark
4. Crystal Castles- Crystal Castles
5. Helio Sequence- Keep Your Eyes Ahead
6. My Morning Jacket- Evil Urges
7. Sigur Ros- Med Sud I Eyerum Vio Spilum End
8. Chad VanGaalen- Soft Airplane
9. Ladytron- Velocifero
10. Sea & Cake- Car Alarm

Best Reissue
1. Rodriguez-Cold Fact
2. New Order- Low Life
3. New Order- Technique

Best Live Show
1. Digitalism- El Rey
2. Cut Copy- Echoplex/Glasshouse
3. Radiohead- Cricket Wireless Amp

Best In-Store
Ed Harcourt’s Bassist

Most Welcome Comeback
My Bloody Valentine

Guilty Pleasure
Hair Metal

Best Artwork/Packaging
Dark Night Joker- Why So Serious?

Misc. Fav’s
Allan Bloom’s- Closing Of American Minds
La Strada-Lasagna and NY Upper Crust Pizza
Kundera’s- Unbearable Lightness of Being

Posted on January 17, 2009