Paste magazine - best of 2008
| 1 | She & him | Volume one | 2008 |
| 2 | Sigur Rós | Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust | 2008 |
| 3 | Vampire weekend | Vampire weekend | 2008 |
| 4 | Bon Iver | For Emma, forever ago | 2007 |
| 5 | Okkervil river | The stand-ins | 2008 |
| 6 | Fleet foxes | Fleet foxes | 2008 |
| 7 | Girl talk | Feed the animals | 2008 |
| 8 | Sun kill moon | April | 2008 |
| 9 | Lucinda Williams | Little honey | 2008 |
| 10 | Deerhunter | Microcastle | 2008 |
| 11 | Hold steady | Stay positive | 2008 |
| 12 | Of Montreal | Skeletal lamping | 2008 |
| 13 | Ida Maria | Fortress round my heart | 2008 |
| 14 | Langhorne slim | Langhorne slim | 2008 |
| 15 | Nick Cave and the Bad seeds | Dig!!! Lazarus dig!!! | 2008 |
| 16 | My morning jacket | Evil urges | 2008 |
| 17 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | Lie down in the light | 2008 |
| 18 | Death cab for cutie | Narrow stairs | 2008 |
| 19 | Gentleman Jesse | Introducing Gentleman Jesse and his Men | 2008 |
| 20 | Hot chip | Made in the dark | 2008 |
| 21 | Raveonettes | Lust lust lust | 2007 |
| 22 | No age | Nouns | 2008 |
| 23 | Mates of state | Re-arrange us | 2008 |
| 24 | Diplo & Santogold | Top ranking | 2008 |
| 25 | Mugison | Mugiboogie | 2008 |
| 26 | Lee Ann Womack | Call me crazy | 2008 |
| 27 | Liam Finn | I'll be lightning | 2008 |
| 28 | MGMT | Oracular spectacular | 2008 |
| 29 | Lil Wayne | Tha carter III | 2008 |
| 30 | I'm from Barcelona | Who killed Harry Houdini? | 2008 |
| 31 | Walkmen | You & me | 2008 |
| 32 | Silver jews | Lookout mountain, lookout sea | 2008 |
| 33 | Santogold | Santogold | 2008 |
| 34 | Torche | Meanderthal | 2008 |
| 35 | Colour revolt | Plunder, beg and curse | 2008 |
| 36 | Bridges | Limits of the sky | 2008 |
| 37 | Johnny Flynn | A larum | 2008 |
| 38 | Jamie Lidell | Jim | 2008 |
| 39 | Dodos | Visiter | 2008 |
| 40 | Flight of the conchords | Flight of the conchords | 2008 |
| 41 | Tallest man on Earth | Shallow grave | 2008 |
| 42 | Thao Nguyen | We brave bee stings and all | 2008 |
| 43 | Amanda Palmer | Who killed Amanda Palmer | 2008 |
| 44 | Kathleen Edwards | Asking for flowers | 2008 |
| 45 | M83 | Saturdays=Youth | 2008 |
| 46 | Lykke Li | Youth novels | 2008 |
| 47 | Laura Marling | Alas I cannot swim | 2008 |
| 48 | R.E.M. | Accelerate | 2008 |
| 49 | Sandra McCracken | Red balloon | 2008 |
| 50 | TV on the radio | Dear science | 2008 |