So a new friend of my, Arial Vanderhorst, encouraged my to tying putting together a Top 10 album list from last year. Sounded like fun, but as it turns out, from where I’m sitting 2008 wasn’t a terribly great year for music. As I started compiling the list I quickly realized that a lot of the stuff I was getting into came out in ’07. So in the interest of list-making discipline I’ve kept this to 2008 (wide) releases only, in no particular order . . .