{"id":761,"date":"2008-12-26T19:09:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-27T03:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=761"},"modified":"2008-12-27T22:30:35","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T06:30:35","slug":"best-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/?p=761","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year brought so much amazing music, there was hardly time to listen to it all, let alone choose favorites. Chances are I’m forgetting plenty. Following is the best music of 2008, in alphabetical order:<\/p>\n

Animal Collective – “Water Curses EP” (Domino)
\nAtlas Sound – “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel” (Kranky)
\nAu – “Verbs” (Aagoo Records)
\nBeach House – “Devotion” (Carpark)
\nBelong – “Same Places (Slow Version)” (Table Of The Elements)
\nTomoyoshi Date – “Human Being” (Flyrec)
\nDeerhunter – “Microcastle \/ Weird Era Cont.” (Kranky\/4AD)
\nKevin Drumm – “Imperial Distortion” (Hospital)
\nLawrence English – “Kiri No Oto” (Touch)
\nFennesz – “Black Sea” (Touch)
\nFleet Foxes – “Sun Giant EP\/Fleet Foxes” (Sub Pop)
\nGrouper – “Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill” (Type)
\nChihei Hatakeyama “Dedication” (Magic Book)
\nHatchback – “Colors of the Sun” (Lo Recordings)
\nSteve Hauschildt – “The Summit” (Gneiss Things)
\nReiko Kudo – “Licking Up Dust” (Hyotan Records)
\nStephan Mathieu – “Radioland” (Die Schachtel)
\nOneohtrix Point Never – “A Pact Between Strangers” (Gneiss Things)
\nArthur Russell – “Love Is Overtaking Me” (Audika Records)
\nTujiko Noriko, Lawrence English & John Chantler – “U” (ROOM40)
\nTwin Sister Moon – “The Snowbringer Cult” (Students of Decay)
\nWindsurf – “Coastlines” (Internasjonal)
\nV\/A – “The Jewelled Antler Library” (Porter)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This year brought so much amazing music, there was hardly time to listen to it all, let alone choose favorites. Chances are I’m forgetting plenty. Following is the best music of 2008, in alphabetical order: Animal Collective – “Water Curses EP” (Domino) Atlas Sound – “Let the Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=761"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":819,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/761\/revisions\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootstrata.com\/rootblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}