Before Mitchfork was Mitchfork, we still ranked albums on a yearly basis. We just used other blogs to do it. Blogs like the magnificent and now-defunct yoontunes.
Well, the tireless crew at Mitchfork decided to take undertake a mission to rescue a Top 10 yoontunes had posted for us back in the day. As you can see below, we were successful.
NOW, JOURNEY INTO THE NOT-TOO-DISTANT PAST FOR MITCHFORK'S BEST MUSIC OF 2008!
1. Cut Copy, In Ghost Colours
Album is like: Being Inside a Rainbow
Grower or Shower: Ron Jeremy Kind of Shower
Perfect Environment to Listen To: A Room Filled With Other Sweaty People Jumping Around Where Bright Lights Abound
Best Track: Unforgettable Season
2. Bon Iver, For Emma, Forever Ago
Album is like: The Crackling of a Fireplace in the Dead of Winter
Grower or Shower: Grower. Immediately Inviting, but Not Immediately Apparent How Engrossing and Atmospheric It Really Is
Perfect Environment to Listen To: Log Cabin In the Woods
Best Track: For Emma
3. TV on the Radio, Dear Science
Album is like: The Hopes and Fears of Tomorrow; Potential Being Realized
Grower or Shower: Many Different Layers of Shower
Perfect Environment to Listen To: Gathering of Jaded Liberals Right On Election Night Before the Results Are Announced
Best Track: DLZ
4. Fleet Foxes, Fleet Foxes
Album is like: Pastoral Purgatory
Grower or Shower: Grower, Because It Takes Sometime To Extricate Yourself From Modernity
Perfect Environment to Listen To: An Open Field Nestled in the Vastness of the Blue Ridge Mountains in a Time Sometime Before the Now
Best Track: Your Protector
5. Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles
Album is like: Megaman on PCP
Grower or Shower: Shower, But It'll Take a Few Listens to Comprehend You're Being Shown the Rise of the Machines
Perfect Environment to Listen To: A Modern Car Assembly Line
Best Track: Vanished
6. MGMT, Oracular Spectacular
Album is like: A Hot Air Balloon Ride On A Summer's Night With Fireworks Exploding all Around.
Grower or Shower: Shower. Barechested, With Glitter and Scarves
Perfect Environment to Listen To: A College Dorm Room, Intoxicated and Full of Blamless Hedonism
Best Track: Kids
7. Wolf Parade, At Mount Zoomer
Album is like: Equal Parts Schizophrenia and Sneer
Grower or Shower: Grower. It Lurks and Lurks, and Right When It Looks Like You're Safe You've Been Snared and Are Dangling Ten Feet in the Air Wondering if You Want to Get Down
Perfect Environment to Listen To: Somewhere Pitch Black, With One Hidden Speaker Blaring Out Spencer's Part of Kissing the Beehive and Another Blasting Out Dan's
Best Track: Solider's Grin
8. Passion Pit, Chunk of Change
Album is like: The Fireworks, Candy and Puppy Dog Store
Grower or Shower: Shows You How to Turn That Frown Upside Down
Perfect Environment to Listen To: A Ballpit Complete With 25 Giggling Kids With Birthdays
Best Track: Sleepyhead
9. Pete and the Pirates, Little Death
Album is like: The Unfathomable Chaos That is Love and Life in Your Twenties
Grower or Shower: Shower. The Non-Stop Energy is a Pathogen You Breath In With the First Jangly Guitar Noise
Perfect Environment to Listen To: Running Down The Street, Late to Work, After A One-Night Stand
Best Track: She Doesn't Belong To Me
10. Why, Alopecia
Album is like: Self-Loathing With A Killer Beat
Grower or Shower: Grower. The Enticing Melodies Set The Stage to Some Of the Best Lyrics This Side of David Berman (Silver Jews)
Perfect Environment to Listen To: Lying on Your Bed, Headphones on, Attention Undivided.
Best Track: The Hollows
Honorable Mentions:
Vampire Weekend, Vampire Weekend
Bloc Party, Intimacy
Santogold, Santogold
The Dodos, Visiter
Shearwater, Rook
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