Best Albums of 2008: #8: MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

8. MGMT: Oracular Spectacular

Make fun of me all you want, this album has a lot of really good, catchy songs to which we have all danced for many, many hours. I’m not even an authentic alt/hipster and I can attest to a large portion of 2008’s good times happening while I was rocking out to “Kids” or “Electric Feel.” And the slower, later songs are solid. Sure, it isn’t always clear what any of these songs are about but that really doesn’t matter. They are sequences of sounds, and as such, they successfully rock my socks off.

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Best of 2008: #9: Streetlight Manifesto: Somewhere in the Between
Best of 2008: #10: M83: Saturdays=Youth
Best of 2008: #11: TV On the Radio: Dear Science
Best of 2008: #12: Mount Eerie: Lost Wisdom
Best of 2008: #13: Cloud Cult: Feel Good Ghosts
Best of 2008: #14: Ratatat: LP3
Best of 2008: #15: The Submarines: Honeysuckle Weeks
Best of 2008: #16: Grand Archives: S/T
Best of 2008: #17: Yelle: Pop-up
Best of 2008: #18: Parenthetical Girls: Entanglements
Best of 2008: #19: The Gaslight Anthem- The '59 Sound
Best of 2008: #20: Billy Bragg- Mr. Love and Justice
Best of 2008: Intro