CTD, Ltd.

Bruce Adams (FSS)
Barack Hussein Obama - Nov. 3, 2008, Grant Park Chicago, IL
The most important thing I heard all year.
ALBUMS - ordered randomly
It's Casual - The New Los Angeles (Friendly Hills Recording Co.)
Wrnlrd - Pentagon (Order of the Cloven Eye)
Trash Talk - Trash Talk (Trash Talk Collective)
Valet - Naked Acid (kranky)
Lawrence English - Kiri No Oto (Touch)
Menace Ruine - The Die Is Cast (Alien 8)
Victims - Killer (Havoc)
Yellow Swans - At All Ends (Load)
Coffins - Buried Death (20 Buck Spin/ Southern Lord)
Caves - Caves (self released)

Joel Beeman (CTD)
Grouper – Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type)
Sun Kil Moon – April (Caldo Verde)
Aidan Baker & Tim Hecker – Fantasma Parastasie (Alien 8)
School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms (Ghostly)
Hammock – Maybe They Will Sing For Us Tomorrow (Darla)
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma & Paul Clipson – Corridors (Root Strata)
Natural Snow Buildings – The Dance Of The Moon And The Sun (Students of Decay)
Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky)
Fennesz – Black Sea (Touch)
Soccer Committee & Machinefabriek – Drawn (Digitalis)

Chris Berry (Soft Abuse)
Leighton Craig - 11 Easy Pieces (Room 40)
Destroyer - Trouble in Dreams (Merge)
Eat Skull - Sick to Death (Siltbreeze)
James Ferraro - Marble Surf (New Age)
Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill (Type)
Jeremy Jay - A Place Where We Could Go (K)
Tommy Jay - Tall Tales of Trauma (Columbus Discount)
King Darves - The Sun Splits For... The Blind Swimmer (DeStijl)
Nagisa Ni te - Yosuga (Jagjaguwar)
Pigeons - Virgin Spectacle (Black Dirt)
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (Audika)
Sic Alps - U.S. EZ (Siltbreeze)
D Charles Speer & The Helix - After Hours (Black Dirt)
Teenage Panzerkorps - Games for Slaves (Siltbreeze)
Vizusa - Vizusa (Seres)

Jeroen Bosdijk (Bertus)
My Morning Jacket - Evil urges
Bob Dylan - Tell tale signs , Bootlegseries 8
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
Kings of Leon - Only by the night
Raconteurs - Consolers of the lonely
Ryan Adams - Cardinology
Nicole Atkins - Neptune city
Felice Brothers - Felice Brothers
Jenny Lewis - Acid tongue
Okkervil River - Stands ins

Pete Boyce (CTD)
Best of 2008 (in alphabetical order)
Jennifer Cardini - Feeling Strange (Kompakt)
Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord)
Gas - Nah Und Fern (Kompakt)
Peter Grummich - Dinner Music For Clubbers (Staubgold)
Philip Jeck - Suite: Live In Liverpool (Touch)
Jackie Mittoo - Ride on (Jamaican Recordings)
Shackleton & Appleblim - Soundboy's Gravestone Gets Desecrated By Vandals (Skull Disco)
The Sight Below - Glider (Ghostly International)
Spiritualized - Songs In A & E (Spaceman)
V/A - Dubstep All-Stars Vol.6 (Tempa)
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Live: Spiritualized (Pitchfork, July 20th)
Online: Resident Advisor Podcast

James Bradley (Sound Fix)
Girl Talk - Feed the Animals (Illegal Art)
Randy Newman - Harps & Angels (Nonesuch)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Sony)
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue (Warp)
Indian Jewelry - Free Gold! (We Are Free)
Women - Women (Jagjaguwar)
v/a - Nigeria Lagos 70 (Strut)
Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
Department of Eagles - In Ear Park (4AD)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular)
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
Lia Ices - Necima (Rare Book Room)
Sic Alps - U.S. Ez (Siltbreeze)

George Chen (Zum)
Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (Type)
Krallice (Profound Lore)
Mount Eerie with Julie Doiron & Fred Squire- Lost Wisdom (PW Elverum & Sun)
Mount Eerie - Black Wooden Ceiling Opening (PW Elverum & Sun)
Ecstatic Sunshine live
Prurient live
Bulbs - Light Ships (Freedom To Spend)
Mincemeat or Tenspeed in the cave at Sutro Baths
Thee Silver Mt Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band - 13 Blues for Thirteen Moons (Constellation)
Menace Ruine - The Die Is Cast (Alien8)

Mike Fink (The Kora Records)
Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (EMI)
Fredrik - Na Na Ni (Kora)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (Modular Interscope)
Lykke Li - Youth Novels (Atlantic)
Gregor Samsa - Rest (Kora)
Thao Nguyen - We Brave Bee Stings and All (KRS)
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)
The Great Northwest - The Widespread Reign of the Great Northwest (Kora)
Santogold - Santogold (Downtown)
The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)

Hans (Clear Spot)
Moon Safari – Blomljud (Blomljud)
Free System Projekt - Narrow Lane (Hampshire Jam)
Simon Says – Tardigrade (Prog Rock)
Redshift - Turning Towards Us (Distant Sun)
Beardfish - Sleeping In Traffic Part 2 (Inside Out)
Talisma - Quelque Part (Unicorn Digital)
Bonded By Blood - Feed The Beast (Earache)
Slagsmalsklubben - Boss For Leader (Capitol)
Willowglass - Book Of Hours (Willowglass)
John Zorn - Filmworks XX: Sholem Aleichem (Tzadik)

Joakim Haugland (Smalltown Supersound)
No Age - Nouns (Sub Pop)
Beyond The Wizard Sleeve - Beyond The Wizard Sleeve (3rdMynd)
Thom Hell - God If I Saw Her Now (Voices Of Wonder)
Hercules and Love Affair - Hercules and Love Affair (DFA)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (Sub Pop)
Portishead - Third (Island)
Gang Gang Dance - Saint Dymphna (WARP)
Dungen - 4 (Subliminal Sounds)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (Columbia)
The Alps - 3 (Type)

Carl Hultgren (Stormy Records)
(in no particular order)
brian wilson - lucky sun
cat power - juke box
fleet foxes - s/t
motorpsycho - little lucid moments
wooden shjips - vol 1
atlas sound - blind
bonnie prince billy - lie down in the light
nomo - ghost rock
portishead - third
dennis wilson pacific ocean blue (re-issue)

Robert Iwanik (ex-CTD/Rope)
Arve Henriksen “Cartography”
Ø “Oleva”
Appleblim and Peverelist “Soundboy’s Gravestone Gets Desecrated by Vandals”
Deadbeat “Roots and Wire”
alva noto “unitxt”
Fennesz “Black Sea”
Murcof “The Versailles Sessions”
Wackies Sampler Vol. 3
Carl Craig & Moritz Von Oswald - ReComposed (Music by Maurice Ravel & Modest Mussorgsky)
iTAL tEK “Cyclical”

Bruno Johnson (okkadisk)
Suicide Live 1977-1978 (Blast First)
Flipper reissues (Water)
Buzzcocks reissues (EMI)
Robert Wyatt Comicopera (Domino)
V/A In The Naked City (Kent)
Mission Of Burma reissues (Matador)
Roscoe Mitchell NONAAH (Nessa)
Magazine reissues (EMI)
V/A Titan! It's All Pop! (Numero Uno)
Joy Division reissues (WEA)
Nick Cave Dig! Lazarus Dig! (Anti)

Caitlin Lavin (CTD)
benoit pioulard - temper (kranky)
vivian girls - s/t (in the red)
nisennenmondai - tori/neji (smalltown supersound)
the accidental - there were wolves (thrill jockey)
bonnie prince billy - lie down in the light (drag city)
school of seven bells - alpinisms (ghostly international)
spiritualized - songs in a&e (fontana)
grouper - dragging a dead deer (type)
m83 - saturdays = youth (mute)
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honorary mentions to:
love is all - a hundred things keep me up at night (what's your rupture?)
deerhunter - microcastle (kranky)
nothing people - anonymous (s-s)
favorite reissue:
the clean - compilation (mississippi)

Matt (Red Eye Records Australia)
The Week That Was - The Week That Was
Marah - Angels Of Destruction
War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
Plants & Animals - Parc Avenue
School Of Language - Sea From Shore
N*E*R*D - Seeing Sounds
Ladyhawk - Shots
Portishead - Third
Todd Sparrow - Modern Western
Wale - Mixtape About Nothing

Adam Mayes (Cobraside Distribution)
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds- Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!
TV On The Radio- Dear Science
Catfish Haven- Devastator
Eagles of Death Metal- Heart On
Melvins- Nude With Boots
Electric Six- Flashy
Hellacopters- Head Off
Brazilian Girls- New York City
Firewater- the Golden Hour
Jonathan Richman- Because Her Beauty Is Raw Wild

Patrick Monaghan (Carrot Top Records/CTD)
V/A-Happy Birthday Carrot Top Records (Hi-Ball)
Kaki King - Dreaming of Revenge (Velour)
Rodney Crowell - Sex and Gasoline (Yep Roc)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (Ghostly Int'l)
Saul Williams - The Rise and Inevitable Liberation of Niggy Tardust (Fader)
Burning Spear - Jah Is Real (Burning Music)
Bill Frisell - History, Mystery (Nonesuch)
David Byrne + Brian Eno - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (Todo Mundo)
The Old Believers - Eight Golden Greats (Fine Romantic Recordings)
Anathallo - Canopy Glow (Anticon)
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Runners Up:
Mercury Rev - Snowflake/Midnight (Yep Roc)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (WB)
The Black Watch - Icing the Snow Queen (Eskimo)
Anne McCue - East of Electric (Anne McCue)
Wendy McNeill - A Dreamer's Guide to Hardcore Loving (Raw Power)

Henry Owings (Chunklet)
Sex/Vid Communal Living (Dom)
Harvey Milk Life...The Best Game In Town (Hydrahead)
Gentleman Jesse & His Men Self Titled (Douchemaster)
Intelligence Deuteronomy (In The Red)
Liz Durrett Outside Our Gates (Warm)
Vic Chesnutt & Elf Power Dark Developments (Orange Twin)
Deerhunter Microcastles/Weird Era Cont. (Kranky)
Monotonix Body Language (Drag City)
Torche Meanderthal (Hydrahead)
Awake My Soul The Original Soundtrack/Help Me To Sing: Songs of the Sacred Harp (Awake)
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Honorable mentions: Nodzz, Crystal Stilts, No Age, Blank Dogs, It's Casual and Human Eye
Top 3 Reissues:
Vivian Girls Vivian Girls (In The Red) (originally by Mauled by Tigers)
Big Dipper Supercluster: The Big Dipper Anthology (Merge)
Sic Alps A Long Way Around To A Shortcut (ADR)

Joshua Punchur (CTD)
Dodos - Visiter (French Kiss)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (Wichita/Arts & Crafts)
Born Ruffians - Red, Yellow & Blue (Warp)
Vampire Weekend - s/t (XL)
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (We*Are*Free)
Walkmen - You & Me (Gigantic)
Bitter Tears - Jam Tarts in the Jake House (Carrot Top). Yeah, I know that it's not on the streets yet, but the copyright date on my album says 2008 so I might just have one of the best records of 2009 on this list too.
High Places - S/T (Thrill Jockey)
Volcano - Paperwork (Leaf)
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10 underappreciated albums that still rock my world more than 10 years after they were released
Brainiac - Hissing Prigs in Static Couture (Touch & Go)
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun (Dali)
Grifters - Ain't My Lookout (Sub Pop/Shangri-La)
Smart Went Crazy - Con Art (Dischord)
Don Caballero - II (Touch & Go)
Future Sound of London - ISDN (Astralwerks)
Quasi - Featuring "Birds" (Up)
Delta 72 - Soul of a New Machine (Touch & Go)
Rodan - Rusty (Quarterstick)
June of 44 - Four Great Points (Quarterstick)
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10 performances that made my ears cum in 2008.
Monotonix: Hideout Block Party (September 23)
Nine Inch Nails: Lollapalooza (August 3)
Blitzen Trapper: Schubas (April 6)
Femi Kuti: CityFest, Detroit (July 4)
Millions of Brazilians: Magic Stick, Detroit (July 3)
Born Ruffians: Schubas (September 30)
Dodos: Pitchfork Fest (July 19)
Daughters: Subterranean (May 31)
Snowden: Subterranean (May 23)
Andrew Bird: Millennium Park (September 3)

R-Rock (The Secret Life of Sound)
Radius - Neighborhood Suicide CD (TSLOS)
MRR-ADM with Malcolm Catto 10" (no label)
TV on the Radio 'Dear Science' CD (4AD)
Heliocentrics - Out There LP (Now Again/Stones Throw)
Plants and Animals 'Parc Avenue' LP (Secret City)
Youth:Kill/Tenshun split 10" lathe (vs the world/vulgar recordings)
Madlib - Beat Konducta Vol. 5 Dil Cosby Suite LP (Stones Throw)
The Dodos - Visiter LP (Frenchkiss)
Sharkula vs. Dookey Head Emcees CD (mixtape)
Death Cab for Cutie - Narow Stairs CD (Atlantic)

Sky Tai (White Wabbit Records)
Deerhunter / Microcastle
Why / Alopecia
Fuck Buttons / Street Horrrsing
Pavement / Brighten the Corners （Reissue, All time Favorite）
Balmorhea / Rivers Arms
Air France / No Way Down
Cut Copy / In Ghost Colours
No Age / Nouns
David Holmes / The Holy Pictures

Adrienne Thomas (PVC)
vivian girls- s/t (in the red)
CSS- donkey (subpop)
TV on the radio- dear science (interscope)
cheap time- s/t (in the red)
no age- nouns (subpop)
fleet foxes- s/t (subpop)
abe vigoda- skeleton (past present medium)
deerhunter- microcastle (kranky)
m83- saturdays=youth (mute)
girl talk- feed the animals (illegal art
René (Clear Spot)
:Golgatha: & Dawn & Dusk Entwined – Sang Graal (Cold Meat Industry)
Various - African Scream Contest (Analog Africa)
Krepulec - New Radical (Beast Of Prey)
Ghosts Of Breslau - And Should The Spring Come (Twilight)
Boris - Smile (Southern Lord/Inoxia)
Various - Oh Run Onto Me, But Don't Hurt Me! (Sub Rosa)
Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou - The Vodoun Effect Vol. 1: 1973-75 (Analog Africa)
Roma Amor – Roma Amor (Old Europa Café)
Gerechtigkeits Liga – Per Ignem Ad Lucem (Vinyl On Demand)
Deficit Des Années Anterieures – Action and Japanese Demonstration CD (Fractal)

Josh Vanek (Wäntage USA)
V/A Top Notch: Hits From the Hive 12" (CDB)
Group Inerane: Guitars from Agadez (Sublime Frequencies)
Harvey Milk: Life... the Best Game in Town (Hydrahead)
Pierced Arrows: Straight To the Heart (Tombstone)
USAISAMONSTER: Space Programs (Load)
Japanther: Tut Tut, Now Shake Ya Butt (Wantage/Menlo Park)
Miss Lana Rebel: All I Need (Wantage/Family Plan)
Eddy Current Suppression Ring: Primary Colors (Goner)
Gauze: 貧乏ゆすりのリズムに乗って (Binbou Yusuri No Rizumu Ni Notte) (Prank)
Mountain High: Wicked Wanderer (Wantage/Hot Dog City)
Special Mention:
Poor School: The Holy Master (Ecstatic Peace)
Ex-Cocaine/Wigwaum Split 12" (Killertree)
Ccccandy 7" (Eat Records)
Red Fang S/T 12" (Wantage)

Allison Wasilewski (CTD)
Portishead - Third (Mercury)
Notwist - The Devil, You & Me (Domino)
Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (XL)
School of Seven Bells - Alpinisms (Ghostly International)
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
Anathallo - Canopy Glow (Anticon)
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (What's Your Rupture)
Deerhunter - Microcastle (Kranky)
Santogold - S/T (Downtown)
Fredrik - Na Na Ni (Kora)
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too (Smalltown Supersound)
Windy & Carl - Songs For The Broken Hearted (Kranky)
Gregor Samsa - Rest (Kora)
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain (Drag City)
Spiritualized - Songs in A & E (Fontana)

Windy Weber (Stormy Records)
(in alphabetical order.........but with my favorite being listed first and out of order.....)
benoit pioulard temper
bonnie prince billy lie down in the light
christina carter original darkness
fleet foxes s/t
nudge infinity padlock
portishead third
jonas reinhardt s/t
terry riley last camel in paris
valet naked acid
white rainbow sky drips drifts