Alright, so we're well past the halfway mark of 2008, and while it's a bit early for me to start making a top 20, I still like to make a journal of all the releases I've heard in a year, to keep track of them for myself, and hopefully to help someone else find something good. This will be updated on pretty much a daily basis, as I have a substantial backlog of music that I have yet to really piece together my thoughts on, or to even listen to at all. Also, I encourage recommendations, and nothing is off limits, so don't be afraid to toss something out there!

Oh, and feel free to let me know if I should perhaps re-evaluate some of these albums. Sometimes really great material can get lost in the mix, and I'm sure I'll be periodically changing some of these ratings as it is.

Italicized text indicated album ratings added at last update.

Bold text indicates albums that should be picked up pretty much no matter what. Note that these are not necessarily the albums with the highest scores, but ones that have stood out as something special. These are the best of the best.

Bolded Albums: 29
Perfect Score Albums: 3
Last Update: Sunday, November 23

Albums Rated: 107

65daysofstatic - The Distant And Mechanised Glow Of Eastern European Dance Parties
7/10

AC/DC - Black Ice
7/10

Adam Linder - Burning Up
8/10

afternoon naps - Can't Stop the Weather EP
6.5/10

Agalloch - The White
9/10

Alt-Ctrl-Sleep - Alt-Ctrl-Sleep
7/10

Amanda Palmer - Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
8/10

Au - Verbs
7/10

aves - Officious
7.5/10

Beach House - Devotion
6/10

Beck - Modern Guilt
8.5/10

Black Francis - Svn Fngrs
7.5/10

The Black Keys - Attack & Release
6.5/10

Black Kids - Partie Traumatic
7.5/10

Black Mountain - In The Future
8/10

The Blue Seeds - The Blue Seeds
8/10

Bodies of Water - A Certain Feeling
7.5/10

British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
5/10

Cat Power - Jukebox
9/10

Clark - Turning Dragon
6/10

Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends
8.5/10

Cranes - Cranes
7.5/10

Damiera - Quiet Mouth Loud Hands
7/10

Dan Le Sac vs Scroobius Pip - Angles
9/10

Dawn Landes - FIREPROOF
7/10

Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
6.5/10

Deerhunter - Microcastle
9/10

Delta Spirit - Ode To Sunshine
8.5/10

Does It Offend You, Yeah? - You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into
2/10

Dosh - Wolves and Wishes
9/10

The Dresden Dolls - No, Virginia...
5.5/10

Echo Is Your Love - Lion Tamers vs. Tigers
8/10

Electric President - Sleep Well
7.5/10

Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini
8.5/10

Envy / Jesu - Split
8/10

The Flashbulb - Soundtrack To A Vacant Life
7/10

Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
7.5/10

Foxboro Hot Tubs - Stop Drop and Roll!!!
7/10

The Funeral Drums - Songs of the Collective Age
8/10

The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound
9.5/10

Girl Talk - Feed The Animals
5/10

Guillemots - Red
8/10

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
4/10

Have A Nice Life - Deathconsciousness
8/10

The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead
7.5/10

Ida Maria - Fortress Round My Heart
6/10

The Imaginaries - Another Side Of The Imaginaries
8.5/10

The Imaginaries - Exoskeleton
7/10

The Imaginaries - The Imaginaries and Nico
8/10

The Imaginaries - Spider Legs EP
7.5/10

Je suis Animal - Self-Taught Magic From A Book
7.5/10

Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue
10/10

Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong - Joe Lean and the Jing Jang Jong
7/10

Johnny Flynn - A Larum
9/10

Johnny Foreigner - Waited Up 'til It Was Light
7/10

Justin Gray & The USB Orchestra - I am ok
8/10

Karkwa - Le volume du vent
9/10

Killing the Dream - Fractures
8/10

Kind of girl - Lonely in a modern way
6.5/10

Laura Marling - Alas I Cannot Swim
8.5/10

The Living End - White Noise
4.5/10

Lykke Li - Youth Novels
6/10

M83 - Saturdays=Youth
6.5/10

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam in Goliath
6/10

Meiko - Meiko
8/10

The Meltdowns - Them Letdowns
6.5/10

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
5/10

Mount Eerie - Lost Wisdom
9/10

The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
9/10

Nada Surf - Lucky
5.5/10

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - DIG, LAZARUS, DIG!!!
8/10

Nine Inch Nails - Ghosts I-IV
6.5/10

Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
8/10

No Age - Nouns
4/10

Oasis - Dig Out Your Soul
5/10

of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
7.5/10

Opeth - Watershed
6/10

Oxford Collapse - Bits
6.5/10

Phoebe Killdeer and the Short Straws - Weather's Coming...
10/10

Porn On Vinyl - I spent the night thinking, with short periods of sleep, interrupted by visions
7.5/10

Portishead - Third
8.5/10

The Raconteurs - Consolers Of The Lonely
7/10

Scarlett Johansson - Anywhere I Lay My Head
7/10

She & Him - Volume 1
6.5/10

Shearwater - Rook
8/10

Sigur Rós - með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
8/10

A Silver Mt. Zion - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons
9/10

Skipping Girl Vinegar - Sift The Noise
8.5/10

The Smashing Pumpkins - American Gothic
4/10

The Sound of Animals Fighting - The Ocean And The Sun
8/10

Sparks - Exotic Creatures Of The Deep
7.5/10

Spiritualized - Songs in A&E
7/10

Starfucker - Starfucker
9.5/10

Sugar Daddy - This Ain't No Party This Ain't No Disco
9/10

The Summer Set - In Color
8/10

That's Adultery - Prostitution, Promiscuity, and a Bunch of Other Things
7/10

Thee Oh Sees - The Master's Bedroom is Worth Spending A Night In
6/10

Tilly and the Wall - O
8.5/10

The Ting Tings - We Started Nothing
7.5/10

TV on the Radio - Dear Science,
8.5/10

Tyler Ramsey - A Long Dream About Swimming Across The Sea
7/10

Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
7.5/10

We Versus The Shark - Dirty Visions
8/10

Weezer - Weezer (Red Album)
8/10

White Guys Jumping - Outside
7/10

Why? - Alopecia
10/10

Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer
8.5/10


Check back often for updates, and again, feel free to critique my list and/or give suggestions!