Top 30 Albums of 2008! (30-11)

There where ridicilous amounts of great music in 2008, make my list extreamly difficult. I can make an argument for any of my top 10 to be the album of the year, but there has to be an order of finish, so here it is, now expanded to Top 30!

30-11 just get product descriptions, 10-1 get my personal review.

30. Derek Webb & Sandra McCracken - Ampersand EP
Ampersand EP is essential listening for Derek Webb and Caedmon’s Call fans and for Sandra McCracken fans. And the all-new duo of Derek Webb and Sandra McCracken is bound to make new fans all its own.
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29. Weezer - Weezer (Red)
Early word on the sixth album from Weezer--and their third self-titled record, although fans, sensibly, are referring to it as "The Red Album"--is that this is their experimental record. Luckily, Rivers Cuomo isn’t interested in penning his own jazz odyssey; for him, experimental is just finding cunning ways to nuance Weezer’s stock-in-trade--crunchy, candy-sweet guitars and vocal harmonies--with new pop tricks.
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28. Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem
The debut from dance-rock outfit Innerpartysystem may be reminiscent of the Killers' first album, which isn't a bad thing at all. Hip-shaking rhythms, wiry synths, crunching guitars, and insistent hooks are woven through all 11 tracks of this self-titled first effort.
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27. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
British Sea Power return with their third and finest full-length. The sound here is raw and spacious. Guitars remain largely drenched in reverb, and various acoustic instruments grace the arrangements, along with various random noises and happy accidents.
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26. She & Him - Volume One
Some of us first fell in love with Zooey Deschanel's distinctive and charming voice when she crooned, "Baby it’s cold outside," with Will Ferrell in their 2003 movie, Elf. In their first recorded collaboration as She & Him, Deschanel and M. Ward strike the same sincerity with his nostalgic production and her retro resonance.
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25. The Hold Steady - Stay Positive
Stay Positive is the fourth studio album from The Hold Steady and follows their hugely popular 2006 release Girls And Boys In America. Working once again with producer John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Dinosaur Jr.), the album sees the band continue in the same direction their previous release took them, mixing classic bar-room style Rock with Craig Finn's half spoken/half sung lyrical tales of drinking, partying and love.
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24. Ben Folds - Way To Normal
Ben Folds is best known as a solo artist and as the front-man pianist of Ben Folds Five. He is celebrated for a sound that bridges the worlds of Jazz and Power Rock. Folds has proven to be a story-teller for the piano-rock generation.
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23. Cut//Copy - In Ghost Colours
At once both jacking and jangly, electronic and organic, cut copy have crafted a record filled with glorious sounds and moods but also unabashedly pop song structures and hooks and melodies for eons.
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22. Nada Surf - Lucky
Consistent: That’s the word that best describes the discography of New York’s Nada Surf, the jingle-jangle pop trio now in its second decade. With heavenly harmonies and swollen choruses, the band can always be counted on to deliver an album’s worth of hummable, single-worthy melodies.
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21. Jenny Lewis - Acid Toung
The all-star Acid Tongue represents something bigger and darker for Jenny Lewis. Without abandoning her roots, Rilo Kiley's front woman adds more soul and jazz weaponry to her musical arsenal, culminating in a record that combines the folky introspection of Joni Mitchell, circa Court and Spark, with the bluesy rock of the Rolling Stones, circa Sticky Fingers, i.e. slide guitar, Hammond B3 organ, and funk-oriented bass.
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20. Sigur Ros - Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
Rough edges, cracked notes, and the sound of fingers on strings are audible resulting in tracks that prove to be the band's sparsest and most affecting work to date. Worry not though, plenty of electric guitar can be heard throughout the album ensuring Sigur Rós commitment to challenging sonic limitations.
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19. Okkervil River - The Stand Ins
The songs continue with the lyrical themes and obsessions of their last album, The Stage Names, filled with references to famous bands, authors, films, TV shows, and other bits of high and low culture set to Will Sheff`s moody, guitar-based indie rock tunes.
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18. Lucinda Williams - Little Honey
Lucinda Williams has always been adept at painting landscapes of the soul, illuminating the spirit's shadowy nooks and shimmering crannies -- but she's never captured the sun breaking through the clouds as purely as on her new Lost Highway release, Little Honey.
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17. Amiee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers
Mann continues to prove herself as a richly evocative songwriter. Built out of acoustic guitars, faint touches of electronics, deep swells of organ, piano and strings, this modern yet rustic album is filled with character sketches and personal revelations.
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16. Coldplay - Viva La Vida or Death And All His Friends
Viva La Vida definitely makes some departures from the band’s usual formula, which happens to be one of the most commercially successful rock-pop blueprints of recent years. The plangent chords, emotive melodies, stadium-rock rhythms and universal lyrical concerns remain, but Martin and co. have gone out on several limbs here, incorporating instrumental tracks, using subtle North African and Latin elements, and overhauling previously strict verse-chorus-verse structures in favor of slightly more avant arrangements.
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15. Jim Noir - Jim Noir
Jim's eponymous second album is one of the most expansive pop records you'll hear this year. His music has always been a melee of different styles and influences, and this album sees him delving more into his electronic side and going further with melody and vocals than before.
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14. Deerhunter - Microcastle
The narcotic drones and fragmented art-punk of their first album, Cryptograms, made the album either a love-it or hate-it proposition for many indie rock fans. Microcastle brings together the disparate elements that made Crytograms fascinating and frustrating, adding a little more pop and quite a bit more studio polish.
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13. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
Their breakthrough, "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?" catapulted the band to the upper echelon of indie stardom. "Skeletal Lamping" also delivers. It's a complicated and dense thrill ride packed with slinky grooves. Unpredictable, unique, and epic.
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12. Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Flight
They call themselves Frightened Rabbit, but there's nothing shy or timid about this Glasgow trio. On The Midnight Organ Fight, singer/guitarist Scott Hutchison says what he thinks--what he feels--and he doesn't hold anything back.For all the unvarnished honesty, a cautious optimism shines through.
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11. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
Epic post-rock tinged emotional indie stalwarts Elbow release their fourth album 'The Seldom Seen Kid', another staunchand anthemic collection of songs. The tense and emotional sound of previous records remains, but with a distinctly more commercial riff-based template, particularly on lead single'Grounds For Divorce'.
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10-1 coming tomorrow.