Top 2008 Music

1/ After long and hard consideration, the jury put Coldplay with Prospekt’s March on top of 2008’s releases. It is considered an unprecedented example of post-completion to an already genuinely great work, Viva La Vida (or Death and all His Friends).

The jury particularly appreciates the massive consistency. Personally I also love the guys for using the ghost title of the pre-release Viva.

2/ Not to be forgotten, to say the least, are:

• The Futureheads – This Is Not The World. Uplifting revelation

• Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts. Genius re-emerges beyond words

• The Last Shadow Puppets – The age of the Understatement. Daredevils produce past-rooted contemporary masterpiece

• British Sea Power – Do you like Rock music? Kings of Indie
  

• Brett Anderson – Wilderness. Former glam star contemplates (still)

• The Verve – Forth. Grinding comeback with beatle-esque dignity

• The Triffids – The Black Swan. Original intentions evilly reinstated
  

3/ The jury got used to the high performance level of Usual Suspects:

• Bloc Party – Intimacy.

• Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid.

• Snow Patrol – A Hundred Million Suns.

• Kaiser Chiefs – Off With Their Heads.

4/ Unofficial commenting of the jury:

• Eva De Roovere – Over & weer. Bevestiging van -levende- belofte

• CPeX – Verzameld. Schitterende wederkomst onder de zon

• Boeijen Hofstede Vrienten – Aardige Jongens. Méér dan aardig

• Bauhaus – Go Away White. Un-avoided relaxed quality
  

• Alanis Morissette – Flavors of Entanglement. Expanded scapes