Um site de crítica especializada juntou 45 listas prestigiadas do mundo todo (NME, Q, Rolling Stone, etc…) e mostrou ao mundo hoje os 24 melhores álbuns do mundo em 2008.
A empreitada é dos metacritic.com e depois de muita pesquisa, soma aqui e subtrai ali, chegou a seguinte ordem dos melhores do ano:
1. Dear Science – TV On The Radio
2. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
3. Third – Portishead
4. Hercules And Love Affair – Hercules And Love Affair
5. For Emma, Forever Ago – Bon Iver
6. Tha Carter III – Lil Wayne
7. Oracular Spectacular – MGMT
8. Only By The Night – Kings of Leon
9. Volume One – She & Him
10. Devotion – Beach House
11. Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! – Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
12. The Seldom Seen Kid – Elbow
13. Microcastle – Deerhunter
14. Saturdays=Youth – M83
15. Stay Positive – The Hold Steady
16. New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) – Erykah Badu
17. London Zoo – The Bug
18. Alopecia – Why?
19. Little Honey – Lucinda Williams
20. Other People – American Princes
21. Rituals – Nicola Conte
22. Traced In Air – Cynic
23. The Odd Couple – Gnarls Barkley
24. Dig Out Your Soul – Oasis
