2008 Music Chart - December

Another quiet (short) month for music with three website reviews: one good (Jacobi Wichita), one bad (Ribbons) and one exempt (The Lines). Also added is a late addition from the marvellous Kate Rusby with her Christmas album Sweet Bells and an album I missed the first time around: For Emma, Forever Ago by Bon Iver, which is not as great as it could be.

1. The Hawk Is Howling - Mogwai
2. Ghosts I-IV - Nine Inch Nails
3. I Want You To Know That There Is Always Hope - I Was A Cub Scout
4. Með Suð í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust - Sigur Rós
5. Peaceful, The World Lays Me Down - Noah And The Whale
6. The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra Riot
   
7. Death Magnetic - Metallica
8. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp
10. Third - Portishead
11. A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol
    
12. Save The World, Get The Girl - The King Blues
    
13. Mountain Meadows - Elliott Brood
    
14. Accelerate - R.E.M.
15. We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
16. Church Bell Blues - Catherine MacLellan
    
17. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
18. Gossip In The Grain - Ray LaMontagne
    
19. Arther - Arther
    
20. Poor Man's Heaven - Seth Lakeman
21. The Age Of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
22. Glasvegas - Glasvegas
    
23. Consolers Of The Lonely - The Raconteurs
24. Do You Like Rock Music - British Sea Power
25. Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings - Counting Crows
26. Seven Months And A Fire Blanket - Proceed
27. Sweet Bells - Kate Rusby
    
28. Silent Cry - Feeder
29. Liejacker - Thea Gilmore
30. Narrow Stairs - Death Cab For Cutie
31. Attack & Release - The Black Keys
32. In Rainbows - Radiohead
33. Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
34. Little Voice - Sara Bareilles
35. Midnight Boom - The Kills
    
36. For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
    
37. This Is A Fix - The Automatic
    
38. Friday Night Lights - Attic Lights
39. Bonez Malone - Jacobi Wichita
    
40. Welcome To Goon Island - XX Teens
41. Viva La Vida - Coldplay
42. I Am Undone - My Epic
    
43. Rosie And The Goldbug - Rosie And The Goldbug
    
44. Songs In A&E - Spiritualized
45. Neptune - The Duke Spirit
46. You Cross My Path - The Charlatans
47. @#%&*! Smilers - Aimee Mann
48. Under Summer Sun - Matt Wertz
    
49. The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
50. Toy Tugboats - Sunfold
    
51. The Hollow Of Morning - Gemma Hayes
52. When The Night Time Comes - Jenny Lindfors
    
53. The Well - Sarah Perrotta
54. Those We Leave Behind - I Am Ghost
    
55. Elliot Minor - Elliot Minor
56. Saturnalia - The Gutter Twins
    
57. Heat: The Remixes - Soft Cell
    
58. This Gift - Sons & Daughters
59. Sunny Day Sets Fire - Summer Palace
60. Seaside Rock - Peter, Bjorn and John
61. Royals - Ribbons
    
62. Kids Aflame - ARMS
63. Revolving Doors - Nelson