Metacritic 75 (best rated 2008 new albums)

Info:  «Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of music albums, games, movies, TV shows, DVDs, and formerly, books. For each product, a numerical score from each review is obtained and the total is averaged» (from Wikipedia). Metacritic 75 is a series of playlists collecting all new albums (no reissues, anthologies, live albums) that get a 75+ aggregated score generated by at least 15 reviews. On running years, the playlist is periodically updated and closed on January of the following year. This playlist collects new albums published in 2008.

Source: Metacritic
Date of publication: 2008
Spotify playlist latest update: 17th August 2016
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Marah - Angels Of Destruction (76)
Magnetic Fields - Distortion (79)
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular (76)
Drive-By Truckers - Brighter Than Creation's Dark (83)
Black Mountain - In The Future (79)
Dengue Fever - Venus On Earth (75)
Super Furry Animals - Hey Venus! (77)
Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin' (75)
Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers (77)
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend (82)
Bob Mould - District Line (76)
k.d. lang - Watershed (76)
Nada Surf - Lucky (77)
Sheryl Crow - Detours (75)
Hot Chip - Made In The Dark (78)
British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music? (82)
Ray Davies - Working Man's Cafe (75)
Atlas Sound - Let The Blind Lead Those Who Can See But Cannot Feel (81)
Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (88)
American Music Club - The Golden Age (80)
Erykah Badu - New Amerykah: Part One (4th World War) (83)
Goldfrapp - Seventh Tree (78)
The Ruby Suns - Sea Lion (75)
Howlin Rain - Magnificent Fiend (75)
The Gutter Twins - Saturnalia (80)
Stephen Malkmus - Real Emotional Trash (76)
Why? - Alopecia (76)
The Dodos - Visiter (83)
She & Him - Volume One (76)
Gnarls Barkley - The Odd Couple (76)
Neon Neon - Stainless Style (79)
Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing (80)
Devotchka - A Mad & Faithful Telling (78)
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams (78)
The Kills - Midnight Boom (75)
These New Puritans - Beat Pyramid (76)
The Raconteurs - Consolers of the Lonely (75)
Sun Kil Moon - April (80)
R.E.M. - Accelerate (79)
The Black Keys - Attack & Release (76)
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now, Youngster (81)
Cut Copy - In Ghost Colours (79)
Jim Noir - Jim Noir (80)
The Breeders - Mountain Battles (75)
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Dig!!! Lazarus Dig!!! (87)
Flight Of The Conchords - Flight Of The Conchords (79)
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid (82)
The Roots - Rising Down (80)
Santogold - Santogold (77)
Robyn - Robyn (86)
The Constantines - Kensington Heights (76)
Frightened Rabbit - The Midnight Organ Fight (80)
Portishead - Third (85)
Four Tet - Ringer (75)
Elvis Costello & The Impostors - Momofuku (78)
Matmos - Supreme Balloon (78)
No Age - Nouns (79)
Last Shadow Puppets - The Age Of The Understatement (77)
Titus Andronicus - The Airing Of Grievances (85)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy - Lie Down In The Light (81)
Bun B - II Trill (82)
Mudhoney - The Lucky Ones (77)
Spiritualized - Songs In A&E (76)
Al Green - Lay It Down (81)
Shearwater - Rook (85)
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes (87)
Aimee Mann - @#%&*! Smilers (79)
Joan As Police Woman - To Survive (76)
Jakob Dylan - Seeing Things (75)
Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III (84)
Emmylou Harris - All I Intended To Be (78)
Martha Wainwright - I Know You're Married But I've Got Feelings Too (77)
Ponytail - Ice Cream Spiritual (82)
Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer (78)
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (78)
Alejandro Escovedo - Real Animal (83)
Sigur Rós - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust (81)
Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules And Love Affair (86)
Patti Smith And Kevin Shields - The Coral Sea (80)
Willie Nelson & Wynton Marsalis - Two Men With The Blues (80)
Beck - Modern Guilt (77)
Kasai Allstars - In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic (83)
John Mellencamp - Life Death Love And Freedom (75)
Wire - Object 47 (77)
Th Hold Steady - Stay Positive (85)
Black Kids - Partie Traumatic (75)
Paul Weller - 22 Dreams (77)
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip (78)
Oneida - Preteen Weaponry (75)
Randy Newman - Harps And Angels (86)
Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst (76)
Death Vessel - Nothing Is Precious Enough For Us (75)
Lindstrom - Where You Go I Go Too (82)
The Walkmen - You & Me (78)
Ra Ra Riot - The Rhumb Line (75)
Lykke Li - Youth Novels (75)
Roots Manuva - Slime & Reason (76)
Emiliana Torrini - Me And Armini (75)
Damien Jurado - Caught In The Trees (75)
The New Year - The New Year (77)
Okkervil River - The Stand Ins (78)
Calexico - Carried To Dust (78)
Metallica - Death Magnetic (78)
Raphael Saadiq - The Way I See It (79)
Lindsey Buckingham - Gift Of Screws (77)
TIndersticks - The Hungry Saw (79)
Blitzen Trapper - Furr (80)
Jenny Lewis - Acid Tongue (75)
TV On The Radio - Dear Science (88)
Girl Talk - Feed The Animals (76)
Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls (80)
Dungen - 4 (79)
El Guincho - Alegranza (79)
Department Of Eagles - In Ear Park (78)
Fucked Up - Chemistry Of Common Life (85)
Juana Molina - Un Dia (77)
Marnie Stern - This Is It & I Am It & You Are It & So Is That & He Is It & She Is It & It Is It & That Is That (82)
Deerhoof - Offend Maggie (80)
Lambchop - OH (Ohio) (76)
Parts & Labor - Receivers (78)
Gang Gang Dance . Saint Dymphna (78)
Arthur Russell - Love Is Overtaking Me (82)
Crystal Stilts - Alight Of Night (76)
Deerhunter - Microcastle (81)
Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto (79)
Q-Tip - The Renaissance (82)
Love Is All - A Hundred Things Keep Me Up At Night (78)
Max Tundra - Parallax Error Beheads You (76)
Kanye West - 808s & Heartbreak (75)
Los Campesinos! - We're Beautiful, We're Doomed (82)
Brian Eno + David Byrne - Everything That Happens Will Happen Today (75)