Favorite Forty Albums of 2008

1. Blitzen Trapper - Furr
2. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
3. Fleet Foxes - s/t
4. Vampire Weekend - s/t
5. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges
6. The Walkmen - You & Me
7. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago
8. TV On The Radio - Dear Science,
9. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
10. Deastro - Keeper's
11. Why? - Alopecia
12. Beck - Modern Guilt
13. Dr. Dog - Fate
14. The Black Keys - Attack & Release
15. The Dodos - Visiter
16. Islands - Arm's Way
17. Black Mountain - In the Future
18. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight
19. Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
20. M83 - Saturdays = Youth
21. The Grand Archives - s/t
22. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
23. Cut/Copy - In Ghost Colours
24. Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell
25. Beach House - Devotion
26. Marah - Angels of Destruction!
27. Pete & The Pirates - Little Death
28. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust
29. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster...
30. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion
31. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
32. The French Kicks - Swimming
33. The Wilderness - (K)no(w)here
34. Conor Oberst - s/t
35. The Knux - Remind Me in Three Days...
36. Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night
37. Clinic - Do It
38. Deerhunter - Microcastle
39. Hercules and Love Affair - s/t
40. (tie) The Flashbulb - Soundtrack to a Vacant Life
40. (tie) Pacific! - Reveries

*for detailed reviews of these forty albums, check out the winter 2009 issue (#3) of the Idle Times zine