Best Albums of the Years: 2008

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Original Top 40

  1. Salvatore Sciarrino – Storie di Altre Storie
  2. Bass Communion – Molotov and Haze
  3. Nadja – Thaumoradiance
  4. Steve Peters – Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4)
  5. Peteris Vasks – Cantus ad pacem
  6. Colin Andrew Sheffield – Signatures (Special Edition)
  7. Lawrence English – Kiri No Oto
  8. Christopher McFall – The City of Almost
  9. Celer/Mathieu Ruhlmann – Mesoscaphe
  10. Bersarin Quartett – Belsarin Quartett
  11. Fennesz – Black Sea
  12. Autechre – Quaristice.Quadrange.ep.ae
  13. Mosaique – Filare
  14. Matmos – Supreme Balloon
  15. Portishead – Third
  16. Hammock – Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow
  17. Parenthetical Girls – Entanglements
  18. Operations – Collected Anomalies
  19. Johnny Hollow – Dirty Hands
  20. Operator Please – Yes Yes Vindictive
  21. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV
  22. Evan Marc & Steve Hillage – Dreamtime Submersible
  23. Implex Grace – Through Luminescent Passages I
  24. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
  25. AGF – Dance Floor Drachen
  26. Of Montreal – Skeletal Lamping
  27. Beyond Sensory Experience – No Lights In Our Eyes
  28. Andrew Liles & Daniel Menche – The Progeny of Flies
  29. Pantaleimon – Heart of the Sun
  30. Specta Ciera – Mystic Valley Parkway
  31. Ran Slavin – Nocturnal Rainbow Rising
  32. Implex Grace – Through Luminescent Passages II
  33. Stephan Mathieu – Radioland
  34. Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
  35. Ladytron – Velocifero
  36. AGF – Words Are Missing
  37. Byetone – Death Of A Typographer
  38. Gregor Samsa – Rest
  39. Nurse With Wound – Huffin’ Rag Blues
  40. Squarepusher – Just A Souvenir

Revised Top 30​

  1. Jakob Ullmann – Voice, Book and Fire 3
  2. Salvatore Sciarrino – Storie di Altre Storie
  3. Bass Communion – Molotov and Haze
  4. Celer – I Love You So Much I Can’t Even Title This (The Light That Never Goes Out Went Out)
  5. Steve Peters – Filtered Light (Chamber Music 4)
  6. Martin Stig Andersen – Rabbit at the Airport
  7. Christopher McFall – Sensuality May Be Found At The Mouth Of A Snake
  8. Tu M’ – Is That You?
  9. Pēteris Vasks – Cantus ad pacem
  10. Mathew Adkins – [60]Project
  11. Lawrence English – Kiri No Oto
  12. Andrew Liles & Steven Stapleton – Der Brennende Acker
  13. Helena Tulve – Lijnen
  14. Zbigniew Karkowski & Tetsuo Furudate – World As War III
  15. Krzysztof Penderecki – Works for Cellos and Orchestra
  16. Secret Chiefs 3 – Xaphan: Book of Angels Vol. 9
  17. Deerhoof – Offend Maggie
  18. The Caretaker – The Persistent Repetition of Phrases
  19. Johnny Hollow – Dirty Hands
  20. Hans Werner Henze – Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 [Berlin Radio SO / Janowski]
  21. Rebecca Saunders – Stirrings Still
  22. Matmos – Supreme Balloon
  23. Portishead – Third
  24. Camille – Music Hole
  25. Hecq – Night Falls
  26. Clouwbeck – A Moraine
  27. Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
  28. Evan Marc & Steve Hillage – Dreamtime Submersible
  29. Johan Söderqvist – Let The Right One In (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
  30. CSS – Donkey