Brad Matthew

Here are my top albums of 2008.  Fleet Foxes ran away with the album of year.  Their self-titled debut is a beautiful mix of Beach Boy harmonies and roots folk in the vein of My Morning Jacket.  Give this album a listen, it is truly a spiritual experience.

1. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
2. Sigur Rós - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
3. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
4. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
5. Beck - Modern Guilt
6. The Whigs - Mission Control
7. Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cardinology
8. Lykke Li - Youth Novels
9. Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It
10. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
11. Liam Finn - I’ll Be Lightning
12. The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
13. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
    
14. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night
15. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

What are your top albums of 2008?

Seems like anything Jack White touches turns to gold.  The guy is a modern day rock god.  While Meg White is trying to get her shit together, Jack is off to the races with The Raconteurs, who have released a new video for “Old Enough” from their latest LP, Consolers of the Lonely.  Taking the directors post is rock photog Autumn de Wilde, who has worked with both The White Strips and Raconteurs.  If you haven’t seen The Raconteurs, please do.  I caught their set at Lollapalooza a few years back and they blew that festival up!  They had the balls to cover “Crazy” before Gnarls Barkley’s set that same day and managed to pull off a version that rivals the original.  Great job!

In other JW news, he recently collaborated with soul diva Alicia Keys on the theme song for the new Bond movie, Quantum Of Solace.  Daniel Craig is one bad mother!