Best of 2008: Leftovers

Another year coming to a close already.  I'll be posting my top 10 sometime in the next week, but here are a few honorable mentions for albums that I quite enjoyed throughout the year:

No Kids - Come Into My House
Leila - Blood Looms & Blooms
The Bug - London Zoo
Kylie Minogue - X
Hercules & Love Affair
Yelle - Pop-up
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak
Sam Sparro
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark
Chairlift - Does You Inspire You
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Madonna - Hard Candy
Miss Kittin - Batbox
Groove Armada - Soundboy Rock
Estelle - Shine

I narrowed this down from a little over 50.  I keep a running list throughout the year (I know, pathetic, but very easy to do thanks to listal.com) and realized that although there were a lot of releases I was excited about, very few seemed to be good albums throughout and just had 1 or 2 great songs.

A couple albums that were officially released here this year (Kylie, Yelle, Robyn, etc.) made my list but others were on last year or just got lost in the shuffle.  My number 1 falls under this category...