Music that changed my life in 2008

Since I was actually employed for all of this year, I didn’t get to listen to as much new music as I did in 2007. Still, it’s a great time to be a fan of music, especially (for my tastes, anyway) ambient and techno.

Ambient/Drone

• Belong — Colorloss Record
• Deaf Center — Pale Ravine

Electronic

• AFX — Analord 1-11
• Autechre — Quaristice
• Ceephax — Volume 1, Volume 2
• Four Tet — Ringer
• James T Cotton — The Dancing Box
• Justice — A Cross The Universe
• Mr. Oizo — Lambs Anger
• Osborne — Osborne
• Squarepusher — Just A Souvenir
• Secondo — A Matter of Scale
• µ-Ziq — Duntisbourne Abbots Soulmate Devastation Technique

Pop/Alternative

• Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes
• M.I.A. — Kala
• M83 — Saturdays = Youth
• Sigur Rós — Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust