Hangin' Out In 100b

Yeah, yeah, I should’ve mentioned this about, erm, 7 months ago. Nevermind, the best album of a whole year is still going to be pretty damn awesome even a half year later, right?

I did actually make a Top 15 of 2008 list, but never got around to posting it. Things get crazy around the holiday time, and then it’s too late to bother. Everyone’s already forgotten those ancient 2008 albums and moved on to predicting the big bands or albums of 2009.

Anyway, what with all the news today about the Dodos‘ forthcoming (more so than expected) album Time To Die, I was reminded that Visiter was my 2008 #1 but I never told anyone. (For anyone curious, the others in my top 3 were Conor Oberst’s Conor Oberst and The Kills’ Midnight Boom.)

Dodos caught me little by little. I’m a big fan of the iPod’s shuffle function, especially when I’m not sure what I feel like listening to. I hadn’t heard Visiter yet, but every time a song from it came around, I’d sit up and take notice, making sure to check who it was. Every song that really grabbed me was them. I’m pretty sure it’s the drums what did it – those drums seriously blow my mind. It didn’t take long for it to become The Album That Couldn’t Leave My Pod, and still can’t, and I’m really looking forward to the new one. Some people already hate it, it seems, and some love it – I had a quick half-listen to the stream (at timetodie.net), but I just can’t judge something that quickly. I’ll wait out the two weeks and listen to it properly when it’s out (digitally) on the 27th of July.