Die großen Hype-Alben waren bis auf Portishead allesamt enttäuschend, abgesehen davon war es bisher ein toller Jahrgang. Die besten Alben aus 2008 werde ich aber wohl wie meistens erst einige Zeit später entdecken.
Sternchen:
****1/2
1. The Field – The Sound of Light2
2. William Parker – Double Sunrise Over Neptune
****
3. Fennesz – Black Sea
4. Kevin Drumm – Imperial Distortion
***1/2
5. Portishead – Third
6. AGF – Words Are Missing
7. Imahoritsuneoyoshidatatsuya – Dots
8. Madvillain – Madvillainy 2: The Madlib Remix
9. Fred Frith – To Sail, to Sail
10. Christina Carter – Masque Femine
Respleandor – Pleamar
***
Prurient – And Still, Wanting
Hauschka – Ferndorf
Blue Sky Black Death – Late Night Cinema
The Goslings – Occasion
Nick Bärtsch’s Ronin – Holon
Scarlett Johansson – Anywhere I Lay My Head
Joji Yuasa – Obscure Tape Music of Japan vol.7 : Music For Experimental Films
Jazz Liberatorz – Clin D’oeil
Acid Mothers Temple & the Melting Paraiso U.F.O. – Recurring Dream and Apocalypse of Darkness
Li Jianhong – San Sheng Shi
Christina Carter – Texas Working Blues
Super Minerals – The Pelagics
Have a Nice Life – Deathconsciousness
Huntsville – Eco, Arches & Eras
Common Eider, King Eider – Figs, Wasps, and Monotremes
**1/2
YMCK – Family Genesis
Boris – Smile
Ryoji Ikeda – Test Pattern
Guapo – Elixirs
Suishou no Fune – Prayer for Chibi
Cruyff in the Bedroom – Saudargia
Brethren of the Free Spirit – All Things Are From Him, Through Him and in Him
Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
Capsule – More! More! More!
Dagha – The Divorce
**
Nneka – No Longer at Ease
Fuzz Against Junk – Netti Netti
Kayo Dot – Blue Lambency Downward
The Beat Circus – Dreamland
Human Bell – Human Bell
M83 – Saturdays = Youth
The Toad Disco – The Alphabet Album (ABC)
Esoteric – The Maniacal Vale
Autechre – Quaristice
Weniger:
Mothlite – The Flax of Reverie
Genghis Tron – Board Up the House
Beach House – Devotion
Oasis – Dig Out Your Soul
Mia Doi Todd – GEA
Denki Groove – J-Pop
Coldplay – Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends
Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
Get Well Soon – Rest Now, Weary Head! You Will Get Well Soon.
Guns N‘ Roses – Chinese Democracy
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