My 2008 in Music (Part 2)

In my last post I mentioned that I'd split my best-of-albums into two lists. The first was what I regard as 'indispensable'. If you were to take the dozen of them away, saying that I didn't deserve to own them, these would be their replacements:

• Adele - 19
• Bellowhead - Matachin
• Duffy - Rockferry
• Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
• Imelda May - Love Tattoo
• Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan - Sunday At Devil Dirt
• Kira Fontana - The Inner Revolution
• Mary Hampton - My Mother's Children
• Noah and the Whale - Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down
• Operator Please - Yes, Yes, Vindictive
• Shoreline - Time Well Spent
• Sons and Daughters - This Gift

They are, of course, in no way direct replacements but in toto these two-dozen albums define my 2008 album space fairly accurately - happy to indulge in that which is currently popular while also inclined to dive into what might seem, at least in the mainstream, currently slightly obscure.

I almost forgot this one, by a band that defy genre, gender and geography:

• Brazilian Girls - New York City