What a year 2008 has been! As all of the Best Of lists have been flying around the music world, each member of the IODA U.S. marketing team took a stab at narrowing down their favorite albums of the year to only five! We cheated a little and let reissues released in 2008 count!
Burial was the king of IODA’s best of lists last year, but in 2008, not one release made it on to more than one marketing team member’s list (although there was overlap when you include the client relations team).
From the rave throwback release by Zomby, the lost gem of a reissue from Rodriguez, the avant classical of Max Richter to the karmically balanced hip-hop of MC Yogi, IODA was all over the place with their top picks. It just goes to show the wide variety of top notch independent releases that hit the digital shelves in 2008.
•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]
•Steinski- “What Does it All Mean?” [Illegal Art]
•Max Richter- “24 Postcards in Full Coulour” [Fat Cat Records]
•School of Seven Bells- “Alpinisms” [Ghostly International]
•Y La Bamba- “Alida St.” [GypsyPop]
•Hymns- “Travel in Herds”
[Blackland Records/ High Wire Music]
•Delta Spirit- “Ode to Sunshine” [Rounder]
•location location- “Snow Covered
Morning EP” [Dogjaw Music]
•Curumin- “JapanPopShow” [Quannum]
•Larry Norman- “Only Visiting This Planet” [Solid Rock]
•James Blackshaw- “Litany of Echoes” [Tompkins Square]
•Akimbo- “Jersey Shores”[Neurot]
•Disfear- “Live the Storm” [Relapse]
•Grails- “Take Refuge in Clean Living” [Important Records]
•Saviours- “Into Abaddon” [Kemado]
•Evil Nine- “They Live!” [Marine Parade]
•Gecko Turner- “Manipulado” [Lovemonk]
•Spam Allstars- “Introducing Spam Allstars”[Introducing]
•Benja, Bo Marley, Disrupt- “Bo Marley vs.Disrupt” [Jahtari]
•V/A- “Objektivity Volume 1” [Objektivity]
•Zomby- “Where Were You in ‘92?”[Werk Discs]
•Mrs Jynx- “Standoffish Cat” [Planet Mu]
•The Chap- “Mega Breakfast”[Ghostly International]
•Dykeritz- “Rearrangerologystics” [Lucky Madison]
•Starfucker- “Starfucker” [Badman Recording Co.]
•Son Lux- “At War With Walls and Mazes” [anticon]
•The Black Angels- “Directions to See a Ghost” [Light in the Attic]
•Hauschka- “Ferndorf” [Fat Cat Records]
•J. Tillman- “Vacilando Territory Blues”[Western Vinyl]
•Three Trapped Tigers- “Three Trapped Tigers EP” [Blood and Biscuits]
Alyssa Fredericks
•Herman Dune- “Next Year In Zion”
[Everloving]
•MC Yogi- “Elephant Power” [White Swan]
•V/A- “People Take Warning!: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs 1913-1938” [Tompkins Square]
•dan le sac Vs. Scroobius Pip- “Angles” [Strange Famous]
•The Carter Family- “The Carter Family” [Sphere Records- Nashville]
Erik Nava
•Siah & Yeshua dapoED- “The Visualz
Anthology” [Head Bop Music]
•Michna- “Magic Monday”
[Ghostly International]
•Restiform Bodies- “TV Loves You Back” [anticon]
•Tobacco- “Fucked Up Friends” [anticon]
•KMD- “Bl_ck B_st_rds” [Metal Face Records]
Justin Johnson (Client Relations Representative/ Podcast Producer)
•Zomby- “Where Were You in ’92″ [Werk Discs]
•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]
•Prince Jammy vs. King Tubby- “His Majesty’s Dub’ [Original]
•School of Seven Bells- “Alpinisms’ [Ghostly International]
•DJ Nomad NYC- “Lights Out (Remixes)” [Cable Recordings]
Lizy Reierson (Client Relations Representative)
•King Khan and the Shrines- “The Supreme Genius of King Khan and The Shrines” [Outside Music/Vice]
•Rodriguez- “Cold Fact” [Light in the Attic]
•Grails- “Take Refuge in Clean Living” [Important]
•Terakraft- “Akh Issudar” [World Village]
•Various Artists- “The History of Northwest Rock, Vol 2 – The Garage Years” [Jerden]
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