So as the musical year reaches its conclusion, Gobshout, in accordance with just about every single musical publication on the planet, are running a Best Albums and Best Singles of 2008 list.
Being the musical democracy that we are, it is YOU who choose the winners!
Anyone that gives us their top 5 albums will enter themselves into the competition to win the top 5 albums as voted for by you! Vote in the singles and the same'll apply. If you already have the top 5, just pick your choouce of entrants in our list
You can have these on digital or CD format.
To vote, just go to our forums.
So, boring stuff outta the way....who will it be? Likely contenders in the albums would appear to be Bon Iver’s heartbreaking ‘For Emma, Forever Ago’, Fleet Foxes critically adored ‘Fleet Foxes’ and the Mercury Music Prize winning ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ by Elbow. If you are looking for womething a bit more upbeat, Metronomy's long awaited second album, 'Nights Out' had indie boys and gals across the country swinging their hips. Check out a trather good review of the Metronomy here innit?
Perhaps you’ll go for the frat-boy afrobeat of Vampire Weekend, or Portishead's snappily titled ‘Third’. On the other hand, TV On The Radio seem to be making a very strong claim to being the new Radiohead (now they just need to sell a load of records), and were praised from up on high for their ‘Dear Science’ LP. Or maybe MGMT have grabbed you by the unmentionables with ‘Oracular Spectacular’, though you would have been hard pressed to miss it with the ‘duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duh duhhhhhhhhhhhhh’ of recent single ‘Kids’ being the soundtrack to the summer and a thousand parties since.
Speaking of which, ‘Kids’ is surely a frontrunner for the Best Single Category, though the Brooklyn boys could stake a claim with both ironic Rock God anthem ‘Time To Pretend’ and ‘Electric Feel’. The camp electro disco of Sam Sparro’s ‘Black and Gold’ has garnered a surprising amount of interest so far, as has the simply marvellous ‘Daddy’s Gone’ by Scottish reverb kings Glasvegas.
The uplifting ‘Paris’, by Friendly Fires has played out many a disco across the land and maybe deserves a shout, though if votes were cast purely on the strength of the twitchy whig-outs they’ve inspired, the winner would surely be ‘Cassius’ by Foals.
Of course, the beauty of this is that maybe you like NONE of these! Maybe, The X Factor Finalist’s version of ‘Hero’ is what really had you weeping this year. It may not be my cup of tea, but if it’s yours, put your money where your mouth is and vote for it now (I won't tell anyone).
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Posted In WIN WIN WIN!, Dec 05 2008.
Words - David