Amplifier

18.12.08

For the third year the Amplifier staff have sat down, thrown aside their personal preferences, and chosen their Top 20 kiwi releases of 2008.

On a beautiful summers day we gathered in a local watering hole with a pile of CDs... After much debate, bickering and some fighting the following 20 releases are those whom the assembled felt were the best releases for the year:

1. Ladi6 - Time Is Not Much (Question Music)

2. The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (Lil' Chief Records)

3. COCO SOLID - The Radical Bad Attack (Independent)

4. SJD - Dayglo Spectres (Round Trip Mars)

5. Jess Chambers - Jess Chambers And The Firefly Orchestra (Independent)

6. Bannerman - Bannerman EP (Independent)

7. Luke Buda - Vesuvius (Arch Hill Records)

8. HDU - Metamathics (Independent)

9. Needles and Bees - A Quilt Of Conversation (Independent)

10. Barry Saunders - Zodiac (Mana Music)

11. The L.E.D.S - Still (Independent)

12. Steve Abel - Flax Happy (Independent)

13. Dub Asylum - Ba Ba Boom! EP (Independent)

14. Flip Grater - Be All And End All (Maiden Records)

15. The Naked And Famous - This Machine (Round Trip Mars)

16. Tiger Tones - Tiger Tones (Pinacolada Records)

17. Thought Creature - Teleport Palace (Independent)

18. Dudley Benson - The Awakening (Independent)

19. Recloose - Perfect Timing (Loop)

20. Renee-Louise Carafice - Tells You To Fight (Monkey Records) 

Step back a year and see our picks for 2007