Wind-Up Records

[Garett Press]

Wind-Up Records digital team:



Scott Cunningham

Here are 10 songs that spent a lot of time in my iPod this year in no particular order.



Golden Age – TV On The Radio

Evil Urges – My Morning Jacket

Time To Pretend – MGMT

Atlas – Battles

Don’t Touch Me – Busta Rhymes

Paper Planes – MIA

Closer – Kings of Leon

White Winter Hymnal - Fleet Foxes

I Will Posses Your Heart – Death Cab For Cutie

Oxford Comma – Vampire Weekend



Holy Fuck, Black Mountain, Yeasayer, Elbow, Okkervil River also dominated my iPod as new discoveries in 2008.



Sarah Fields

1. Kings of Leon - Only By the Night

2. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes

3. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

4. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

5. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

6. TV on the Radio - Dear Science

7. Magnetic Fields - Distortion

8. Black Kids - Partie Traumatic

9. Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster

10. Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago



Alternates

Blitzen Trapper - Furr

Islands – Arm’s Way

Man Man – Rabbit Habits

Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules and Love Affair



Sarah Flynn

1. Jason Anderson The Hopeful & the Unafraid

2. Okkervil River The Stand Ins

3. Ane Brun Changing of the Seasons

4. The Gaslight Anthem The 59 Sound

5. The Hold Steady Stay Positive

6. Los Campesinos Hold On Now, Youngster

7. Lil Mama – VYP (Voice of the Young People)

8. Aldenbarton Exodus of the Eldest

9. People in Planes Beyond the Horizon

10. MGMT Oracular Spectacular



Peter Janovsky

(in no particular order)

Plants and Animals – parc avenue

Indian Jewelry – free gold

Sigur Ros – med sud I eyrum vid spilum endalaust

These Are Powers – TaroTarot

The Bug – London Zoo

TV on The Radio – Dear Science

DeerHunter – Microcastle/Weird Era Cont.

Gang Gang Dance – Saint Dymphna




Mark Mueller

1. Portishead - Third

2. Sigur Ros - Med Sud I Eyrum Vid Spilum Endalaust

3. R.E.M. – Accelerate

4. My Morning Jacket – Evil Urges

5. Dr. Dog – Fate

6. Plants and Animals – Parc Avenue

7. Okkervil River – The Stand Ins

8. Helio Sequence – Keep Your Eyes Ahead

9. Grand Archives – s/t

10. Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s – Not Animal

also loved MMJ live @ RCMH, Portishead @ Coachella, the R.E.M. tour, Treasure Island Festival and the deluxe edition of Sigur Ros.



Julia Willmott

1. Innerpartysystem - Innerpartysystem

2. Rise Against - Appeal To Reason

3. MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

4. Alkaline Trio - Agony and Irony

5. Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

6. The Matches - A Band In Hope

7. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend

8. 3OH!3 - Want

9. People in Planes - Beyond the Horizon

10. My Morning Jacket - Evil Urges

Honorable Mentions

Flight of the Conchords – Flight of the Conchords

Anthony Green - Avalon

City and Colour – Bring Me Your Love

[Jeremy Aaron]

I'm glad to see at least a couple of people at Wind-Up appreciated People in Planes' album. It was one of my favorite major label releases of the year.

[S9Dallasoz]

Where's the Thriving Ivory love on their own label?
Good to see Innerparty & people in Planes making lists though.

[S9Dallasoz]

I'm glad to see at least a couple of people at Wind-Up appreciated People in Planes' album. It was one of my favorite major label releases of the year.
It's a great album.