Before you make your 2008 list

[riaphaelle]

To be completely honest, I have'nt listened to a lot of the more popular albums this year (Nick Cave, TV On The Radio, Viva La Vida), and I've really been meaning to.

[PIMB]

What albums do you think people should hear before everyone makes their top albums of 2008 lists. Choose one or two albums that hardly anyone has heard of or that are flying under the radar.


Pica Beats - Beating Back The Claws Of The Cold

RIYL: Belle & Sebastian, The Kinks


The M's - Real Close Ones

RIYL: T-Rex, Walkmen

[123pielover321]

Strange...on other music forums the albums in bold are receiving lots of discussion.

[Deviant Fish]

Thursday/Envy is one of the best things I've heard this year.

[AnnaMarie]

RJD2 - The Third Hand

Fink - Distance and Time

[dsjnix]

Nick Cave's album is unimaginably overhyped on this board and elsewhere. I thought last year's Grinderman self-titled was much better.

[Cranberry<3]

I've been meaning to get into both of those, would that be a good place to start?

[ChefC]

Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin with Milk-Mouth
- SounRAB like a more energetic Explosions in the Sky. The drumming is sick.

Porcupine Tree - Nil Recurring
- Not obscure whatsoever, but this thing went pretty much unnoticed and I feel that it's Steven Wilson's strongest release yet.

[Missy*]

Well if you download the split they just released then you can save time and only have to download one thing. :/

It's a damn good split, too.

[WaterGuy]

Johnny Flynn - A Larum and Giraffes? Giraffes! - More Skin with Milk-Mouth certainly sounRAB Interesting. I'll check em out soon.

Anyways, I'll just name a few from an "experimental/prog" point of view -

Kayo Dot - Blue Larabency Downward - Most of their metal influences have vanished here, but this is quite weird, jazzy, avant-garde sounRABcape that keeps me captured throughout the entire thing. Yeah, I loved it .

Guapo - Elixirs - Guapo are a VERY hard band to describe. Basically, if anyone is familiar with Universe Zero, Magma, or even a bit of Henry Cow, they might have an hint from where these guys are coming from. Five Suns, their best release, is very unsettling, dark, atmospheric avant-garde music.(with some post-rockish arabiance as well)
They are just continuing the good work here, although not as dark, but still great atmospheric stuff that captures you!

The Tangent - Not as good as the book - A great prog. release that doesn't seem to have any bit of over instrumentation or bad vocals whatsoever. It doesn't sound like "just another prog. release" either. There's something refreshingly new here, which I'm not able to pinpoint.

From a metal/alternative rock point of view, there are a couple in mind as well, but I'll post em later.