Music I Enjoyed In 2008

In no particular order, with one exception:

• Fuck Buttons, Fuck Buttons: Two British DJs who want to be the Boredoms except with all the grit filtered out through a silicone and plastic sieve.
• Vivian Girls, Vivian Girls: They're the amalgamation of about eight different sub-cultural zeitgeists, but that's forgivable because they're catchy too.
• Wayne, Carter III: Yep, so the wait was worth it and his hipster icon-hood only enriches his multi-faceted ironic appeal.
• Wale, Mixtape About Nothing: I'd like almost any album that combines a Seinfeld concept with rapping about the DC area, but it helps that this guy has great flow, too.
• Stephin Merritt, Distortion: Dude's willfully evading repetition of 69 Love Songs, but still makes a pretty decent recording.
• T.I., Paper Trail: The two songs that have dominated everyone's life for the past two months or so speak well enough for themselves.
• Max Tundra, Parallax Error Beheads You: Welcome back, Mr. Tundra.
• Crystal Castles, Crystal Castles: Luckily, I, too, enjoy the music from Mega Man.
• Conor Oberst, Conor Oberst: Emo Wars - Episode III: Revenge of the Nebraskan. This time, he's nearly legitimate.
  

And my favorite of the year was Girl Talk, Feed the Animals, about which I've already said my piece.