My Top 20 albums of 2008
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First things first: let me set something straight about last year’s list. Radiohead’s In Rainbows was, although very good, not the best album of 2007. I’ve overlooked a masterpiece that only this year has opened its brilliance to me. The National – Boxer retroactively wins Best Album of 2007. Even more; it’s the best I’ve heard since Damien Rice’s O (2003). I can’t begin to explain how these twelve songs outshine in utter genius and since I’m 12 months late on it, I won’t. But this had to be said. blijf lezen »
