maybe it's due to the somewhat crap world/economic conditions, but i ended the year on a bit of a "quiet music" tip, some new and some older:
- tape "luminarium" (great stuff)
- ilyas ahmed "between two skies"/"toward the might" 2cd reissue, "the vertigo of dawn"
- ignatz "III" (a little less quiet than the others...sort of a cheap, lo-fi, sludgy homemade take on robert johnson)
- peter broderick "float"
- the fun years "baby, it's cold inside"
- astral social club "s/t" (ok, this gets quite noisy in parts but...)
btw, i'm somehow strangly pleased that we've reached december 30 without having a "best of 2008" thread.