The WPGU Music Staff weighs in on the top albums of 2008

Matt Klomparens, Music Director

1. The Gaslight Anthem – The ’59 Sound
2. Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
3. Hot Chip – Made in the Dark
4. Death Cab for Cutie – Narrow Stairs
5. Annuals – Such Fun

Joe Smyth, Assistant Music Director

1. The Gaslight Anthem — The ’59 Sound
2. Phantom Planet — Raise the Dead
3. We Are Scientists — Brain Thrust Mastery
4. Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin — Pershing
5. Tokyo Police Club — Elephant Shell

Heather Faivre, Assistant Music Director

1. Noah and the Whale — Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down
2. She & Him — Volume One
3. Of Montreal — Skeletal Lamping
4. The Killers — Day & Age
5. We Are Scientists — Brain Thrust Mastery

Christina Campos, Music Staff

The Black Keys — Attack and Release
Tokyo Police Club — Elephant Shell
N.E.R.D. — Seeing Sounds
Broken Social Scene — Something For All Of Us…
Girl Talk — Feed the Animals

Justin Cudmore, Music Staff

1. Cut Copy — In Ghost Colors
2. Hercules and Love Affair — Hercules and Love Affair
3. Fleet Foxes — Fleet Foxes
4. The Presets — Apocalypso
5. Santogold — Santogold

Amanda Shively, Music Staff

1. Hold Steady — Stay Positive
2. The Mountain Goats — Heretic Pride
3. Bon Iver — For Emma, Forever Ago
4. Sigur Ros — Með suð í eyrum við spilum endalaust
5. Annuals — Such Fun

Kelly Durkin, Music Staff

1. Death Cab For Cutie — Narrow Stairs
2. Bloc Party — Intimacy
3. Radiohead – In Rainbows (Retail release ’08)
4. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – Animal/Not Animal
5. The Hold Steady – Stay Positive

Lindsey Meyers

1. MGMT – Oracular Spectacular
2. Frightened Rabbit — The Midnight Organ Fight
3. Vampire Weekend – Vampire Weekend
4. Lykke Li — Youth Novels
5. Deerhunter — Microcastle

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