"100 satellites spinning around the musical star of 2008..."

Air France – June Evenings (EP No Way Down)

Anne Clark – The Hardest Heart (LP The Smallest Acts Of Kindness)

Arid – If You Go (LP All Things Come To Wave)

Atlas Sound – Cold As Ice (LP Let The Blind Lead Those)

Bang Gang – Ghosts From The Past (LP Ghosts From The Past)

Beach House – Gila (LP Devotion)

Bon Iver – Skinny Love (LP For Emma, Forever Ago)

Brett Anderson – Back To You (LP Wilderness) Top-10


Brian Wilson – Live Let Live (LP That Old Lucky Sun)

Broken Records – Lies (EP Lies)

Calexico – El Gatillo (Trigger Revisited) (LP Carried To Dust)

Centromatic/South San Gabriel – My Goodbyes (LP Dual Hawks)

Champagne Riot – Scandinavian Warfare (EP Paris and I)

Chris Eckman – Who Will Light Your Path? (LP The Last Side Of The Mountain)

Coldplay – 42 (Lp Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends)

Cut Copy – Lights and Music (LP In Ghost Colours)

Daniel Lanois – Lovechild (LP Here Is What Is)

Death Cab For Cutie – I Will Possess Your Heart (LP Narrow Stairs)

Deerhunter – Twilight At Carbon Lake (LP Microcastle)

Dengue Fever – Monsoon Of Perfume (LP Venus On Earth) Top-10


DeVotchKa – Undone (LP A Mad and Faithful Thing)

Duffy – Sleeping Stone (LP Rockferry)

El Perro del Mar – How Did We Forget? (LP From The Valley To The Stars) Top-10

Emiliana Torrini – Gun (LP Me and Arini)

Fleet Foxes – Mykonos (EP Sun Giant)

Frida Hyvonen – Dirty Dancing (LP Silence Is Wild)

Gnarls Barkley – Who’s Gonna Save My Soul (LP The Odd Couple)

Hauschka – Weeks Of Rain (LP Ferndorf) Top-10


Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Come On Over (Turn Me On) (LP Sunday At Devil Dirt)

Joan As Police Woman – To Be Loved (LP To Survive)

Johann Johannsson – The Rocket Builder (Io Pan!) (LP Fordlandia)

Jukes – Something Important (LP We Might Disappear)

Leila – Mettle (LP Blood, Looms and Blooms)

M83 – Couleurs (LP Saturdays=Youth)

Madrugada – Honey Bee (LP Madrugada)

Man-Man – Whalebones (LP Rabbit Habits)

Marianne Faithfull feat. Antony Hegarty – Ooh baby, baby (LP Easy Come Easy Go)

Mark Pickerel & His Praying Hands – Let Me Down Easy (LP Cody’s Dream)

Matt Elliott – I Name This Ship The Tragedy, Bless Her and All Who Sail With Her (LP Howling Songs) Top-10


Max Richter – Found Song For P. (LP 24 Postcards in Full Colour)

Mono in VCF – Escape City Scrapers (LP Mono in VCF) Top-10


My Brightest Diamond – To Pluto’s Moon (LP A Thousand Shark’s Teeth)

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds – Jesus Of The Moon (LP Dig!! Lazarus Dig!!!)

Nicola Conte – Like Leaves In The Wind (LP Rituals)

No-Man – Truenorth (LP Schoolyard Ghosts)

Notwist – Hands On Us (LP The Devil, You + Me)

Patrick Kelleher – Coat To Wear (EP You Look Cold)

Paul Weller – One Bright Star (LP 22 Dreams)

Peter Broderick - An Ending (LP Float)

Port O’Brien – I Woke Up Today (LP All We Could Do Was Sing)

Portishead – The Rip (LP Third) Top-10


Quiet Village – Can’t Be Beat (LP Silent Movie)

Ray LaMontagne – A Falling Through (LP Gossip In The Grain)

Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra – Love For Mrs. Rhodes (LP Raz Ohara And The Odd Orchestra)

Robert Forster – Demon Days (LP The Evangelisc)

Russian Red – Girls Just Want To Have Fun (LP I Love Your Glasses)

Scott Matthew – Abandoned (LP Scott Matthew)

Shearwater – Home Life (LP Rook)

Silver Jews – Suffering Jukebox (LP Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea)

The Black Angels – Science Killer (LP Directions To See a Ghost)

The Bookhouse Boys - Shoot You Down (LP The Bookhouse Boys)

The Do – On My Shoulders (LP A Mouthful)

The Felice Brothes – Greatest Show On Earth (LP The Felice Brothers)

The Flashbulb – Warm Hands In Cold Fog (LP Soundtrack To A Vacant Life)

The Gutter Twins – Front Street (LP Saturnalia)

The Herbaliser feat. Jessica Darling – Stranded On Earth (LP Same As It Never Was)

The Last Shadow Puppets – Standing Next To Me (LP The Age Of The Understatement) Top-10


The Long Insiders – You Take The Summer

The Opiates – Anatomy of a Plastic Girl (EP Anatomy Of a Plastic Girl)

The Pierces – Boring (LP 13 Tales of Love & Revenge)

The Radio Dept. – Freddie and The Trojan Horse (EP Freddie and The Trojan Horse)

The Sleeping Years – The Shape Of Things To Come (LP Were Becoming Islands One By One)

The Sound Of Arrows – A Very Sad Song (EP Danger)

The Unbending Trees – You are a Lover (LP Chemically Happy (Is The New Sad) Top-10


The Verve – Love Is Noise (LP Forth)

The Watson Twins – Only You (LP Fire Songs)

Tindersticks – Boobar (LP The Hungry Saw)

Tom Baxter – Tell Her Today (LP Skybound)

Tricky – Past Mistake (LP Knowle West Boy) Top-10

Van Morrison – Don’t Go To Nightclubs Anymore (LP Keep It Simple)

William Fitzsimmons - I Don't Feel It Anymore (Song of the Sparrow) (LP The Sparrow and the Crow)

Windsor For The Derby – Let Go (LP How We Lost)

Winona – The White Room (LP Rosebud)

Yann Tiersen – Atlantique Nord (LP Tabarly)

Yoav – Adore Adore (LP Charmed and Strange)



.....and 10 songs from the Greek alternative scene


Astyplaz – I Can See You Fade (LP Bi)


B-Sides – Queen (Thanks guys for commenting my april's post. It was a nice reference to my blog,indeed.Good luck with your work, regards from a pagan place)


Cyanna – Done Be (LP Just a Crash)


Dousk – Loose (LP Kind Of Human)


Monika – Bloody Sth (LP Avatar)


Monsieur Minimal – Love Story (LP Lollipop)


The Earthbound – Child Of The Sea (LP La Querra Final)


The Liarbirds – Black & White (EP Second Quartet)


Transistor – Epsilon (LP Things You Miss When You Blink)


Your Hand In Mine – Calendar (LP Every Night Dreams)


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