Best of 2008

And so it's that time of the year again. For some reason I found it a lot easier to choose my japanese favourites than the non-japanese ones. There's been many good non-japanese records, but recently I've found myself almost only listening to japanese artists. I think one of the reasons is that I get to see a lot of the japanese bands live all the time here. Also, I think it's more difficult to stay updated on new western music here. Another interesting thing is that I had to listen to most of the non-japanese albums so many times before I started liking them whereas for the japanese ones I almost instantly liked them. Anyways, here goes..

Best japanese albums

• sokabe keiichi BAND - キラキラ！
• group_inou - FAN
• YO-MA - Sparks In Winter
• the Novembers - picnic
• Ogre You Asshole - しらないあいずしらせる子 (mini-album)
• kaji hideki - Lollipop
• PERFUME - GAME
• キセル - Magic Hour

Best non-jap. albums

• Wolf Parade - At Mt. Zoomer
• Someone Still Loves You, Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
• Okkervil River - the Stand-Ins
• Of Montreal - Skeletal Lampin
• Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
• Foals - Antidotes
• Conor Oberst - s/t
• Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel
• Beach House - Devotion
• Tokyo Police Club - Elephant Shell