Staff Picks - Jason Killingsworth (deputy editor)

It's always a bit uncomfortable posting your personal year-end list. Trying to resolve the tension between the records you liked most and the ones you really, really wanted to like (or want people to believe you liked). Regardless, here are ten records I thoroughly enjoyed this year and will inevitably try to add to my list next year until someone reminds me they came out in 2008. Never fails.

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1. Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping [Polyvinyl]
2. Sigur Rós - med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust [XL]
3. Sandra McCracken - Red Balloon [Towhee]
4. Slow Runner - Mermaids [Independent]
5. One Day International - Blackbird [Independent Records Ireland]
6. Girl Talk - Feed The Animals [Illegal Art]
7. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III [Cash Money]
8. Modern Skirts - All Of Us In Our Night [Independent]
9. The Gaslight Anthem - The '59 Sound [SideOne Dummy]
10. Death Cab For Cutie - Narrow Stairs [Atlantic]