1. Max Tundra – Parallax Error Beheads You

2. Beach House – Devotion

3. The Mole – As High As The Sky

4. Mr. Oizo – Lambs Anger

5. Datassette – Dattassette

6. Beck – Modern Guilt

7. He Can Jog – Middlemarch

8. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend

9. Let’s Go Outside – A Picnic With The Hunters

10. Ricardo Villalobos – Vasco

Honorable Mentions

Winnie the Shit – Son’s Grave
Truckasauras – Tea Parties, Guns n Valor
Kenny Larkin – Keys, Strings, Tambourines
Claro Intelecto – Metanarrative
Death Cab For Cutie – Narrow Stairs
Clark – Turning Dragon
Heartthrob – Dear Painter, Paint Me

Not to be confused with my favorite new albums of 2008, these are my favorite 10 albums I listened to this year.

Dopplereffekt – Gesamtkunstwerk (1999)

Beat Happening – You Turn Me On (1992)

Biosphere – Substrata (1997)

The Jesus And Mary Chain – Psychocandy (1985)

Lusine ICL – Language Barrier (2007)

Oingo Boingo – Only A Lad (1981)

Prince – Dirty Mind (1980)

Terry Riley – In C (Bang On A Can Recording) (2001)

Slayer – God Hates Us All (2001)

Stars Of The Lid – And Their Refinement of the Decline (2007)