Sometimes things get, whatever...

...or Probably Not The Top 5 Albums of 2008 or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Trance.

Well, not really. But to compensate for the lack of albums on this 2008 roundup, I needed a few fat headings.

Anyway, everyone knows the routine: Some person you don't know anything about lists ten or twenty records, of which you've probably heard of half at best. That's usually the way it goes in my case. Especially in 2008, which is why I didn't bother to compile such a list until now. And unlike 100% of all the other ones I've seen so far, this is a list that does not include any of the following: Glasvegas. Vampire Weekend. Fleet Foxes. Fair enough, I never really gave them a chance. But they didn't leave any impression on either the first, second or third listen, so in the end I didn't bother.

No more BS: (oh, and in no particular order)

Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours
Cut Copy visited Norway three times last year. Didn't catch them even once. However, In Ghost Colours will always be the soundtrack of my version of 2008, a year where the practical and predictable was set aside and I just decided to dance along to the good things that came my way.


deadmau5 - Random Album Title
Minimal House with elements of Trance, or vise versa. Nice background music while walking dogs or reading books. Everyone and his cousin wants to be remixed by the mouse these days, and the kid does have killer studio skills.


Lindstrøm - Where You Go I Go Too
Three tracks clocking in at just under an hour, starting off with the monster title track (29 minutes) It's never going to be a success, but if you're patient it pays off. Ambient electronic discoish stuff with a hint of every possible influence in the worlds of Italo and Jean Michel Jarre - needless to say, most of my friends hate it.


Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron and Fred Squire - Lost Wisdom
The stuff that makes dead relationships come partly to life, if but only in your mind for a while, before the last song ends and you wake up in reality again. My number one choice as background noise while reading books too.


The Presets - Apocalypso
Ok album, but what a song! The spanking new video is an instant favourite.


That's about it. The first albums that came to mind when thinking of 2008, I guess that has to count for something. For good measure I'll add Sebastien Tellier - Sexuality too, but only because of L'Amour et la Violence...