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Here is a list of some of the top music albums of 2008, whether you agree or disagree, lists are very much a part of a new year and reflecting on the year which has just past. So have a browse through the list and feel free to leave your own reflections, comments and opinions of the albums! 

 Alphabeat – This is Alphabeat

 With influences drawn largely from the golden era of 1980s pop (ie. before Stock, Aitken, and Waterman made it rubbish), this  Danish combo’s debut album is a selection of fun from start to finish. Track eight though, (Rubberboots) sticks out like a sore t  thumb in its inexplicable awfulness but, if anything, it serves only to highlight the embarrassment of riches on show elsewhere.

 The Raconteaurs – Consolers of the Lonely 

 It’s rare that a band’s second album blows the socks off its predecessor but Consolers Of The Lonely did exactly that.  While Broken Boy Soldiers certainly had its moments, it seemed as though Jack White and Brendon Benson’s respective talents  were too unique ever to blend convincingly. 

 Duffy – Rockferry

 Most people’s first exposure to Duffy came with the retro R&B of Mercy, which lit up the charts in February. Great though that    track is, the real gems were to be had on her debut album. At its best (Warwick Avenue, Syrup and Honey, Distant Dreamer),  Rockferry revealed a neo-soul talent every bit as impressive as Amy Winehouse. 

 Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree

“Getting it together in the country” is an old hippie cliche which rarely has the desired effect (see Withnail And I). Alison    Goldfrapp and Will Gregory pulled it off here though, retreating from the disco stylings of their previous few albums and    channeling the bucolic spirit of Kate Bush.

 Kings Of Leon – Only By The Night

 With the arrival of this, their fourth album in five years, Kings of Leon revealed not only a work ethic absent in most of the  peers, but also their evolution from indie darlings to the country’s favourite stadium rock band. 

 Portishead – Third

 The way this band has evolved is stunning, their net has been cast far wider for this album and brings in an array of influences,  everything from post-rock and sea shanties to industrial and techno. Utterly sublime, with only the odd song harping back to the  days of ‘traditional’ Portishead.

 Roots Manuva

 As schizophrenic as it is brilliant, Slime And Reason is the sound of a man unable to reconcile macho swagger with tortured soul-  searching. Mr Manuva’s dilemma is our gain though. Here he proves once again that he’s UK hip-hop’s finest.