I still have to listen to the following music from 2008 before I can make any judgment about what my favourite was.

• bonnie prince billy . lie down in the light
• calm blue sea . the calm blue sea
• new year . the new year
• dears . missiles
• bowerbirds . hymn for a dark horse
• thievery corporation . radio retaliation
• deerhunter . microcastle
• isobel campbell & mark lanegan . sunday at devil dirt
• raveonettes . beauty dies ep
• parts & labor . receivers

I’ve already listened to and bought the following:

• this will destroy you . this will destroy you
• frightened rabbit . the midnight organ fight
• constantines . kensington heights
• raveonettes . lust lust lust
• silver mt. zion . 13 blues for thirteen moons
• sigur ros . hvarf – heim
• duke spirit . neptune
• dodos . visiter
• dandy warhols . earth to the dandy warhols
• mates of state . re-arrange us
• elbow . the seldom seen kid
• death cab for cutie . narrow stairs
• kills . midnight boom
• kings of leon . only by the night
• fembots . calling out
• stern, marnie . this is it and i am it and you are it and so is that and he is it and she is it and it is it and that is that
• walkmen . you and me

Anything major you think I might’ve missed?