Rate 08: Albums of the year

Not comprehensive - but possibly too large - guide to the albums of the year; tomorrow, celebrate Christmas with a musical selection box of tunes.


Black Mountain - In The Future


Adorable - Footnotes


Cat Power - Jukebox


Aidan John Moffat - I Can Hear Your Heart


Lightspeed Champion - Falling Off The Lavender Bridge


Tying Tiffany - Brain For Breakfast


Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers


Sons And Daughters - This Gift


Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend


Helen Love - It's My Club & I'll Play What I Want To


The Duke Spirit - Neptune


Robots In Disguise - We're In The Music Biz


School Of Language - Sea From The Shore


Simon Breed - The Smitten King Laments


Tegan And Sara - The Con


Pete & The Pirates - Little Death


Los Campesinos - Hold On Now, Youngster


Die So Fluid - Not Everyone Gets A Happy Ending


Hawksley Workman - Between The Beautifuls


The Orb - The Dream


Malcolm Middleton - Sleight Of Hand


Kathryn Williams & Neil MacColl - Two


The Kills - Midnight Boom


MGMT - Oracular Spectacular


Neon Neon - Stainless Style


Operator Please - Yes Yes Vindictive


Ivor Cutler - A Flat Man


Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward


Kimya Dawson - Remember That I Love You


Okkervil River - Black Sheep Boy


Diamanda Galas - Guilty! Guilty! Guilty! Brand-new album from DG - her 17th


The Black Keys - Attack And Release


Boy Kill Boy - Stars And The Sea


Brian Jonestown Massacre - My Bloody Underground


Dawn Kinnard - The Courtesy Fall


Capercaillie - Roses And Tears


Forward, Russia - Life Processes


Blood Red Shoes - Box Of Secrets


Tift Merritt - Another Country


Tindersticks - The Hungry Saw


Long Blondes - Couples


Fosca - The Painted Side Of The Rocket


Half Man Half Biscuit - CSI Ambleside


The Fall - Imperial Wax Solvent


Portishead - Third


Robert Forster - The Evangelist


Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles


The Wave Pictures - Instant Coffee Baby


Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell


Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes


The Shortwave Set - Replica Sun Machine


Delays - Everything's The Rush


Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt


Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours


They Came From The Stars, I Saw Them - We Are All In The Gutter, But...


El Perro Del Mar - From The Valley To The Stars


Spiritualized - Songs In A&E


Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'Til It Was Light


Ladytron - Velocifero


The Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea


Shearwater - Rook


The Notwist - The Devil, You And Me


Johnny Truant - No Tears For The Creatures


Rudimentary Peni - No More Pain


Sarandon - Kill Twee Pop!


Gemma Ray - The Leader


Joan As Policewoman - To Survive


Errors - It's Not Something...


Lykke Li - Youth Novels


Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes


Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be


Tilly And The Wall - O


Wild Beasts - Limbo Panto


The Beep Seals - Things That Roar


Black Kids - Partie Traumatic


Patti Smith & Kevin Shields - The Coral Sea


Cute Is What We Aim For - Rotation


The Hold Steady - Stay Positive


Wire - Object 47


The Charlatans - Best of the BBC Sessions 1999 - 2006


Various - Life Beyond Mars


She & Him - Volume One


Heloise & The Saviour Faire - Trash Rats And Microphones


Marianne Faithfull - Live At The BBC


CSS - Donkey


Noah And The Whale - Peaceful The World Lays Me Down


Late Of The Pier - Fantasy Black Channel


Thom Yorke - Eraser: The Remixes


The Week That Was - The Week That Was


Pivot - O Soundtrack My Heart


Stereolab - Chemical Chords


Juliana Hatfield - How To Walk Away


Fujiya & Miyagi - Transparent Things


Squeeze - Complete BBC Sessions


Giant Sand - Provisions


Loudon Wainwright III - Recovery


Thomas Tantrum - Thomas Tantrum


James Yorkston - When The Haar Rolls In


Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires


Little Jackie - The Stoop


Manda Rin - My DNA


Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini


Calexico - Carried To Dust


David Holmes - The Holy Pictures


Fiery Furnaces - Remember [Live]


Neil Halstead - Oh, Mighty Engine


Glasvegas - Glasvegas


Polysics - We Ate The Machine


Drever, McCusker & Woomble - Before The Ruin


Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?


Michael Franti & Spearhead - All Rebel Rockers


Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby - Wreckless Eric and Amy Rigby


The Streets - Everything Is Borrowed


Christophe Beck - Buffy The Vampire Slayer: The Score


Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue


O'Death - Broken Hymns Limbs and Skins


Roses Kings Castles - Roses Kings Castles


Euros Childs - Cheer Gone


Mogwai - The Hawk Is Howling


Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty


TV On The Radio - Dear Science


Thievery Corporation - Radio Retaliation


Ladyhawke - Ladyhawke


Mercury Rev - Snowflake Midnight


Ani Di Franco - Red Letter Year


Hot Puppies - Blue Hands


Euros Childs - Cheer Gone

Leonard Bernstein - 90 Years Of... box set


Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping


Mr Scruff - Ninja Tune


Asian Dub Foundation - Punkara


Lambchop - Oh Ohio


Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park


Lucinda Williams - Little Honey


Tilly And The Wall - O


Those Dancing Days - In Our Space Hero Suits


Eugene McGuinness - Eugene McGuinness


Shelleyan Orphan - We Have Everything We Need


The Long Blondes - Singles


Okkervil River - The Stand Ins


Will Oldham & Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Is It The Sea?


Various - Jon Savage Presents....


Danielle Dax - Dark Adapted Eye


Lotus Eaters - Silentspace


Pink - Funhouse


Bloc Party - Intimacy


Los Campesinos - We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed


Chairlift - Does You Inspire You?


Steinski - What Does It All Mean?


Various - BBC Radiophonic Workshop: A Retrospective


School Of Seven Bells - Alpinism


Robin Guthrie - 3.19


Tony Christie - Made In Sheffield


Belle & Sebastian - BBC Sessions


Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust


David Byrne & Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today


Headless Heroes - The Silence Of Love


Aimee Mann - One More Drifter In The Snow


Beyonce - I Am Sasha Fierce