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JITM Top Releases of 2008
1. Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
2. These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (Domino)
3. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! (Mute)
4. Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (XL)
6. The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (Third Man/Warner Bros)
7. R.E.M. - Accelerate (Warner Bros)
8. The Black Keys - Attack & Release (Nonesuch)
9. Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (Downtown/Atlantic)
10. The Kills - Midnight Boom (Domino)
11. DeVotchKa - A Mad & Faithful Telling (Anti-)
12. The Shackeltons - The Shackeltons (Loveless)
13. Cloud Cult - Feel Good Ghosts (Tea-Partying Through Tornadoes) (Earthology)
14. Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (Polydor UK)
15. Foals - Antidotes (Sub Pop)
16. Moby - Last Night (Mute)
17. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant (Sub Pop)
18. Sera Cahoone - Only as the Day is Long (Sub Pop)
19..Sons & Daughters - This Gift (Domino)
20. The Raveonettes - Lust Lust Lust (Vice)
21. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles (Last Gang)
22. Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (New West)
23. Hot Chip - Made in the Dark (Astralwerks)
24. The Heavy - Great Vengeance and Furious Fire (Counter/+1)
25. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (Arts & Crafts)
26. Ghostland Observatory - Robotique Majestique (Trashy Moped)
27. Future of the Left - Curses (Too Pure)
28. British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (Rough Trade)
29. The Whigs - Mission Control (ATO)
30. The Teenagers - Reality Check (XL)
31. Thao with the Get Down Stay Down - We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars)
32. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (Jagjaguwar)
33. The Duke Spirit - Neptune (Shangri-La)

JITM Top Northwest Releases of 2008
1. The Helio Sequence - Keep Your Eyes Ahead (Sub Pop)
2. Fleet Foxes - Sun Giant (Sub Pop)
3. Sera Cahoone - Only as the Day is Long (Sub Pop)
4. Joshua Morrison - Home (Expanding Brooklyn)
5. Voyager One - Afterhours in the Afterlife (Loveless)
6. Man Plus - The Hungarian Suicide Songbook (self-released)
7. Say Hi - The Wishes and the Glitch (Euphobia)
8. Throw Me the Statue - Moonbeams (Secretly Canadian)
9. Shawn Smith - The Diamond Hand (Gator/Sound vs Silence)
10. Mark Pickerel and His Praying Hands - Cody's Dream (Bloodshot)
11. Thee Emergency - Solid (self-released)
12. Skullbot - Titan (self-released)
13. Black Whales - Black Whales (demo)
14. The Transmissionary Six - Cosmonautical (Tarnished)
15. Grand Archives - The Grand Archives (Sub Pop)