Ahoy Thar, Port O'Brien

Finding themselves somewhere in the realm of Colourbook and No Age, with some obtuse hints of Arcade Fire, Port O'Brien are a five-piece outta Oakland who dropped their long-awaited album "All We Could Do Was Sing" in mid-May. There's some kinda Decemberists-esque imagery and it has a kind of Human Television earnestness / naïvete...
Anyway about 18 months ago, Pitchfork reviewed "I Woke Up Today", and claimed it was angsty and isolated. I call bullshit. I was having a weak day today, and other people were having worse ones, and this track picked me up and hit a chord it hadn't when first released in late '06. I think I listened to it once and forgot about it then. But this time, I found the whole confessional, proto-indie-folk-pop sound beautiful. If this song can count as a 2008 release, it's maybe my favourite non-banger track of the year. So far.

Port O'Brien - I Woke Up Today

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Personal Top 10 - Nat Jones

Just to be totally original I thought I would post my top ten albums of this year and as a little bonus to those who give a crap my top ten movies as well.

Albums:

LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver

MIA - Kala

The White Stripes - Icky Thump

Burial - Untrue

Arcade Fire - Neon Bible

Battles - Mirrored

Daft Punk - Alive 2007

High Contrast - Tough Guys Dont Dance

Spoon - Ga Ga Ga Ga

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Movies:

Ratatouille

Knocked Up

Superbad

Hot Fuzz

Grindhouse

Children of Men

Transformers

American Gangster

Rock the Bells
Sicko