70. You Came to Me, Beach House, Devotion
RIYL: steamy keys, finger snap snare, sultry chanteuses, soaking up some lazy days
69. For Your Love, Marching Band, Spark Large
RIYL: Swedish indie pop, syncopated choruses, The Boy Least Likely To, mid-90's nuptials
68. Sex on Fire, Kings of Leon, Only By the Night
RIYL: wailing lead guitars, ska chord progressions expertly hidden behind arena rock trappings, backsliding bands, literal references to "your sex"
67. New York, Cat Power, Jukebox
RIYL: warm Hammond organ, echoy kick drum, Manhattans, spreading the news
66. Sax Rohmer, Pt. 1, The Mountain Goats, Heretic Pride
RIYL: power acoustic pop, consequentialism, Robert Louis Stevenson, Chinese spies
65. Gardenia, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Real Emotional Trash
RIYL: guitar wankery, sweet female backing vocals, classic Pavement, Afrikaners
64. Can You Hear Me, Killer Mike, I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind II
RIYL: Auto-Tuned crooning, crack-infused rap, lilting background synths, Dirty South
63. Glue Girls, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Pershing
RIYL: summer pop, cowbell breakdowns, layered harmonies, the Crimea in July
62. Love is Noise, The Verve, Forth
RIYL: persussive vocal ticks, Britpop resurgent, churning disco, prominent noses
61. Broken, Tift Merritt, Another Country
RIYL: down-home hooks, wistful country numbers, Lucinda Williams, the old general store
Best of 2008: 70 - 61
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