pat’s top 5 albums and songs of 2008
top albums
5. lykke li - youth novels
her adorable voice echoes over a solid mix of organ, piano, trumpet and the occasional drum machine.
4. girl talk - feed the animals
greg gillis is a genius. greg gillis made pop music fun for everyone. greg gillis blah blah blah. this album was the perfect mash-up of today’s throw away embarrassing pop garbage with classic songs from yesteryear. finally hipsters and your dad have something to talk about.
3. of montreal - skeletal lamping
sexual innuendo by the album load, and catchy hooks to boot. thanks to this album the term “pleasure puss” is now in my vocabulary.
2. m83 - saturdays = youth
some bands have borrowed a sound that is distinctly 1980, and ruined everything we once loved about the decade. this album’s amazingly expansive sound took 1980 and made it piss its pegged acid-wash jeans.
1. blind pilot - 3 rounds and a sound
this two-piece group out of portland produced the best, and least heard, album of 2008. it’s just as much home while curled-up-by-the-fire as it is blazing down the highway with windows down.
top songs
5. gnarls barkley - blind mary
i can’t imagine what kind of rip would exist in the fabric of creativity if cee-lo and dangermouse had never started collaborating. this song consistently makes my morning bus commute all the less shitty.
4. megafaun - find your mark
the break down halfway through this song is by far the best open-road night driving tune i’ve heard in a long time.
3. fleet foxes - ragged wood
this road-trip ready title track sounds, and tastes, very much like my morning jacket at their best. the soaring harmonic vocals sound like they were recorded in a cathedral, and the drum beat makes keeping your feet from tapping utterly impossible.
2. mgmt - kids
the best song on a pretty solid debut album by a couple of hipster chatch-bags out of brooklyn. practice what you preach, boys.
1. blind pilot - poor boy
an emotional down-tempo acoustic track that simply, and beautifully, asks why we make the life choices we do.
