Favorite new music of the first 3/4 of 2008

[asr]

1.Accelerate
2.Viva La Vida
3. Funplex
4. Hard Candy
5. Dear Science

 

[the tourist]

In no particular order

Oasis "Dig Out Your Soul"
Ours "Mercy/Dancing For The Death Of An Imaginary Enemy"
M83 "Saturdays=Youth"
Albert Hammond Jr. "Como Te Llama"
Coldplay "Viva la Vida"
Cut Copy "In Ghost Colours"
Glasvegas "Glasvegas"
Fleet Foxes "Fleet Foxes"
Foxglove Hunt "Stop Heartbeat"
Last Shadow Puppets "The Age Of The Understatement"
The Mojomatics "Don't Pretend That You Know Me"
The Music "Strength In Numbers"
The Raconteurs "Consolers Of The Lonely"
Starflyer 59 "Dial M"
The Verve "Forth"

 

[U2inUtah]

Favorite new album that came out in 2007 but that I discovered in the first 3/4 of 2008:

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

 

[toscano]

Best Album - Death Magnetic
Best New Artist - Glasvegas
Biggest Disappointment - Kings of Leon

 

[If you shout...]

So, uh...you could pretty much replace any single album on my list with this one. One of the best records I've heard in years, easily. Trumped only by a very select few records, including their first full-length, Hidden World. This shit is fucking unbelievable, and the double, gatefold vinyl is one of the most sumptuously gorgeous records I've seen in years. To experience this by way of the CD would be sinful at best.

If you can see this band live, do it. Be careful--very, very, very careful--at the show, but go. It will light a fire under you like you can't even begin to imagine.