Best CDs of 2008
Orchard
$14.95 – Compact disc / Verve Records
Lizz Wright is one of the finest American singers of the last ten years. Her two prior albums were both excellent (Salt in 2003, Dreaming Wide Awake in 2005), but I think she has managed to surpass those with this stunni... Buy or find out more →
Alas I Cannot Swim
$19.95 – Compact disc / Virgin Records
Debut album from the young British Folk singer/songwriter who will appeal to fans of Kirsty Maccoll, Linda Thompson and Kate Nash. Although not legally old enough to buy a drink, this darling of the Art-Folk circuit has ... Buy or find out more →
For Emma Forever Ago
$24.95$21.95 – Compact disc / Rogue Records
For Emma, Forever Ago is the debut of this lineage of songs. As a whole, the record is entirely cohesive throughout and remains centered around a particular aesthetic, prompted by the time and place for which it was reco... Buy or find out more →
Fleet Foxes
$16.95 – Compact disc / Sub Pop Records
Fleet Foxes are five. There are five of them, and they are from Seattle. They are, for lack of an imminently more marketable descriptor, a group trafficking in baroque harmonic pop. And the joy they derive in doing so is... Buy or find out more →
Two Men With The Blues
$19.95 – Compact disc / Blue Note Records
The event was simply billed as "Willie Nelson Sings the Blues," but the historic two-night stand on January 12 and 13, 2007 at Jazz at Lincoln Center was far more than that. Call it a summit meeting between two American ... Buy or find out more →
Eleven Songs
$29.95 – Compact disc /
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Songs From A World Apart
$34.95 – Compact disc / Long Distance Rcds
The new master doudouk player Levon Minassian and the composer Armand Amar join forces to take a fresh look at the traditional armenian repertories in their own special way. Various soloists including Nusrat fateh, Ali k... Buy or find out more →
Bootleg Series Vol 8: Tell Tale Signs
$24.95 – Compact disc / Columbia Records
Disc: 1 1. Mississippi 6:04 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind) 2. Most of the Time 3:46 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy) 3. Dignity 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy) 4. Someday Baby 5:56 (Alternate version, Modern Times) 5. Red River... Buy or find out more →
Bowery
$21.95 – Compact disc / Spunk Records
Beautiful new Australian group. Sea & Cake meets Luna Buy or find out more →
Sift The Noise
$29.95 – Compact disc /
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Dilettantes
$29.95 – Compact disc / Virgin Records
You can always rely on 3 things: 1.The Tigers will finish 9th 2. The Espy will be packed on a Sunday Arvo 3.You Am I will deliver a great album. If the raw rock of their previous effort (the excellent 'Convicts') was the... Buy or find out more →
No. 1s & No. 2s
$0.00 – Compact disc / Universal
Tex Perkins and his Ladyboyz No 1’s and No 2’s is a collection of #1 and #2 hits singles such as Come Said The Boy, Hold The Line, and We’ve Got Tonight. Special guest that appear on the album: Nic Cester, Suzy Demarchi,... Buy or find out more →
Even
$24.95 – Compact disc / Rubber Records
The follow up to 2004’s excellent Free Kicks Buy or find out more →
Watch Me Disappear
$29.95$22.95 – Compact disc /
After building a solid fanbase and critical acclaim with their first two albums, “Sunset Studies” (2000) and “Strange Bird” (2002), success came in a big way for Augie March with their third album “Moo, You Bloody Choir”... Buy or find out more →
Havilah
$29.95 – Compact disc / Atp
Havilah, like everything The Drones have done, is an album of contradictions, where bombast meets beauty, melancholy wrestles with violent guitars and singer Liddiard's incendiary voice lights up his angular poetry, this... Buy or find out more →
Gossip In The Grain
$24.95 – Compact disc / Sony
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Lessons To Be Learned
$0.00 – Compact disc / Mushroom Records
From the sultry opening notes of the debut single "Sweet About Me", the world will quickly come to know it's uncovered a major new vocal talent in Gabriella Cilmi. Buy or find out more →
Rockferry
$14.95 – Compact disc / Polydor
'Rockferry' is the debut album from Welsh singer Duffy. Written and produced in collaboration with Bernard Butler, the album is a stunning showcase for her voice, which brings to mind such great singers as Dusty Springfi... Buy or find out more →
Santogold
$10.95 – Compact disc / Downtown Records
A debut album hasn't been this anticipated globally in a very long time. 'Santogold' is a totally original blend of new wave inspired pop, bass heavy dancehall & dub, electro, hip hop and sounds we can't even classif... Buy or find out more →
Me And Armini
$26.95 – Compact disc / Rough Trade
Emiliana Torrini is an artist who may well have passed under your radar. Previous releases (including the hugely acclaimed 'Fisherman's Woman') have kept things fairly lo-fi, but new record 'Me and Armini' aims to change... Buy or find out more →
Kitty Daisy And Lewis
$25.95 – Compact disc /
The sound of yesteryear, but also a band for the future" NME
You’d expect any self-respecting young North London band that boasts an average age of 16 to spend an inordinate amount of time filling their i-phones with rem... Buy or find out more →
Because Of The Times
$9.95 – Compact disc /
Pre-publicity may make you think that the Kings have gone folk or something, but rumours of radical departure have been greatly exaggerated. Its honed, its frippery stripped. But its still recognisably denim-clad, pub-br... Buy or find out more →
Soul Science
$24.95 – Compact disc /
Justin Adams highly acclaimed debut 'solo' album 'Desert Road' was championed by just about every world/folk/roots journalist, DJ, producer around the world. FRoots, The Guardian & The Observer referred to it as quit... Buy or find out more →
Bog Bodies And Other Stories Music For Guitar
$26.95 – Compact disc /
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The music was written and performed on my ragtag collection of guitars and other stringed instruments including 12 string guitar, National Steel guitar, Spanish guitar, sl... Buy or find out more →
Nigeria Special Modern Highlife Afro Sounds And Nigerian Blues 2cd
$39.95 – Compact disc /
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Welcome To Gippsland
$19.95 – Compact disc /
From Sean McMahon, singer/songwriter for Melbourne’s Downhills Home comes a brand new album, Welcome to Gippsland. Part lament, part celebration – and with a slight tongue in cheek –Welcome to Gippsland is a collection... Buy or find out more →
Minor Birds
$24.95 – Compact disc /
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Jungle Blues
$26.95 – Compact disc /
C.W. Stoneking - guitar & tenor banjo player, singer-songwriter and raconteur - returns with a new collection of original tunes, Jungle Blues. Inspired in part by his amazing experiences as a survivor of a shipwreck ... Buy or find out more →
Evil Urges
$14.95 – Compact disc / Spunk Records
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Only By The Night
$14.95 – Compact disc / Sony
Fourth album from the Followill brothers from Tennessee, USA. Buy or find out more →
Exit Strategy Of The Soul: Local Edition
$29.95 – Compact disc /
A true artist's artist, Ron Sexsmith has been writing and performing his earnest, soulful songs for nearly thirty years now, engendering praise from a litany of artists too influential and many to name. On his latest alb... Buy or find out more →
Oracular Spectacular
$14.95 – Compact disc /
Forty years after the Summer of Love, MGMT is celebrating the grand re-opening of the third eye of the world with Oracular Spectacular, the duo's much anticipated first full length album MGMT is Brooklyn based Andrew Van... Buy or find out more →
A Piece Of What You Need
$19.95 – Compact disc / Verve Records
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