Guest list: Daniel Hawks. Top 10 Albums of 2008

Our residential music coordinator regales us with a list of his Top 10 Albums of 2008. Not one to let us down with a mere Top 10, he goes on to list specialty categories and let-down albums released over the last year. But don't take my word for it...

Top 10 of 2008:
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
Dodos – Visiter
Fleet Foxes
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
Portishead – Third
Sigur Ros – Med Sud Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalust
TV on the Radio – Dear Science
Vampire Weekend
The War on Drugs – Wagonwheel Blues


Best albums for a party:
Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Vampire Weekend

Best albums to put on before bed:
Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago
Brightblack Morning Light – Motion to Rejoin
Department of Eagles – In Ear Park
Fleet Foxes

Underwhelming albums from artists that I like:
CSS – Donkey
Destroyer – Trouble in Dreams
Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
Okkervil River – The Stand Ins

Biggest disappointment of 2008:
Annuals – Such Fun

2007 Revisited:
I still like most of my Top 10 from last year. If I could make one correction, I would replace Mirrored by Battles with All Hour Cymbals by Yeasayer.