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Pitchfork 2008 Albums Ballot

01 | Earth: The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
02 | Cut Copy: In Ghost Colours (Modular Interscope)
03 | Fleet Foxes: Sun Giant EP / Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
04 | Calexico: Carried to Dust (Quarterstick)
05 | Thalia Zedek Band: Liars and Prayers (Thrill Jockey)
06 | M83: Saturdays=Youth (Mute)
07 | Death Vessel: Nothing Is Precious Enough for Us (Sub Pop)
08 | Shearwater: Rook (Matador)
09 | Girl Talk: Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
10 | Retribution Gospel Choir: Retribution Gospel Choir (Caldo Verde)
11 | Portishead: Third (Mercury)
12 | Spiritualized: Songs in A&E (Fontana International)
13 | The Magnetic Fields: Distortion (Nonesuch)
14 | The Sea and Cake: Car Alarm (Thrill Jockey)
15 | Theresa Andersson: Hummingbird, Go! (Basin Street Records)
16 | Bodies of Water: A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian)
17 | Times New Viking: Rip It Off (Matador)
18 | Ida: Lovers Prayers (Polyvinyl)
19 | Grace Jones: Hurricane (Wall of Sound)
20 | Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson: Rattlin' Bones (Sugar Hill)
21 | Okkervil River: The Stand Ins (Jagjaguwar)
22 | Love Is All: A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night (What's Your Rupture?)
23 | Fennesz: Black Sea (Touch)
24 | The Mountain Goats: Heretic Pride (4AD)
25 | The Antiques: Awake (Safranin Sound)
26 | Antony and the Johnsons: Another World EP (Secretly Canadian)
27 | Aimee Mann: @#%&! Smilers (SuperEgo)
28 | Destroyer: Trouble in Dreams (Merge)
29 | Peter Bradley Adams: Leavetaking (Sarathan Records)
30 | Beach House: Devotion (Carpark)
31 | Thao and the Get Down Stay Down: We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)
32 | Frida Hyvönen: Silence Is Wild (Secretly Canadian)
33 | Gang Gang Dance: Saint Dymphna (The Social Registry)
34 | R.E.M.: Accelerate (Warner Brothers)
35 | Jóhann Jóhannsson: Fordlândia (4AD)
36 | Hercules and Love Affair: Hercules and Love Affair (Mute)
37 | Constantines: Kensington Heights (Arts & Crafts)
38 | Dominique Leone: Dominique Leone (Stromland Records)
39 | Sun Kil Moon: April (Caldo Verde)
40 | Punch Brothers: Punch (Nonesuch)
41 | Meiko: Meiko (MySpace Records)
42 | Kathleen Edwards: Asking for Flowers (Zoe)
43 | Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks: Real Emotional Trash (Matador)
44 | Jolie Holland: The Living and the Dead (Anti-)
45 | Neil Halstead: Oh! Mighty Engine (Brushfire)
46 | Pete & the Pirates: Little Death (Stolen)
47 | Old Crow Medicine Show: Tennessee Pusher (Nettwerk)
48 | Glorytellers: Glorytellers (Southern Records)
49 | No Age: Nouns (Sub Pop)
50 | Vampire Weekend: Vampire Weekend (XL)

.: Pitchfork's Top 50 Albums of 2008