The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2008. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2008 in music.
First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2008 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Ayumi Hamasaki Guilty Rock Avex Trax Praxis Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness) Experimental rock, alternative rock NAGUAL, M.O.D. Technologies The Smashing Pumpkins American Gothic Alternative rock Reprise January8 For the Fallen Dreams Changes Metalcore, melodic hardcore Rise Luke Doucet & the White Falcon Blood's Too Rich Indie rock, country Six Shooter Rhonda Vincent Good Thing Going Country, bluegrass Rounder Sia Some People Have Real Problems Pop Hear Music, Monkey Puzzle Records Teenage Bottlerocket Warning Device Punk rock Red Scare January11 Benedictum Seasons of Tragedy Heavy metal Locomotive Music January14 British Sea Power Do You Like Rock Music? Indie rock, post-punk revival Rough Trade The Dø A Mouthful Indie rock, folk rock Cinq7 Ringo Starr Liverpool 8 Rock Capitol January15 Hayden In Field & Town Alternative country, indie folk, folk rock Hardwood Jon Foreman Winter Acoustic Lowercase people, Credential The Magnetic Fields Distortion Indie pop, noise pop, shoegaze Nonesuch Matthew West Something to Say Contemporary Christian music Sparrow Number One Gun The North Pole Project Christian rock, alternative rock, emo Tooth & Nail January21 Black Mountain In the Future Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, space rock Jagjaguwar Lightspeed Champion Falling Off the Lavender Bridge Indie rock, folk Domino January22 The Audition Champion Pop-punk Victory Big Noyd Illustrious East Coast hip-hop, gangsta rap Koch Byzantine Oblivion Beckons Groove metal Prosthetic Chuck Wicks Starting Now Country RCA Nashville Daedelus Live at Low End Theory Electronic Alpha Pup Dengue Fever Venus on Earth Disfear Live the Storm Crust punk, d-beat Relapse Drive-By Truckers Brighter Than Creation's Dark Southern rock, folk rock New West Foxy Shazam Introducing Alternative rock, post-hardcore, experimental rock Ferret, New Weatherman Records Matt Costa Unfamiliar Faces Folk Brushfire With Blood Comes Cleansing Horror Deathcore Victory ZOX Line in the Sand Alternative rock, reggae rock, ska SideOneDummy January23 Ayreon 01011001 Progressive metal, progressive rock Inside Out Music January24 Have a Nice Life Deathconsciousness Shoegaze, post-punk, gothic rock Enemies List Home Recordings, The Flenser January25 Alestorm Captain Morgan's Revenge Power metal, folk metal Napalm Avantasia The Scarecrow Symphonic metal, progressive metal, power metal Nuclear Blast Brainstorm Downburst Heavy metal, power metal Metal Blade Heaven Shall Burn Iconoclast (Part 1: The Final Resistance) Melodic death metal, metalcore Century Media January28 Adele 19 Blue-eyed soul XL Bullet for My Valentine Scream Aim Fire Melodic metalcore, thrash metal Jive Clark Turning Dragon IDM, experimental, techno Warp Joe Jackson Rain Rock, pop Rykodisc Prosumer and Murat Tepeli Serenity Detroit techno, Chicago house, deep house Ostgut Ton Sarah Brightman Symphony Classical crossover, classical, symphonic rock Manhattan Sons and Daughters This Gift Indie rock Domino These New Puritans Beat Pyramid Indie rock, post-punk, electronic Angular, Domino January29 Autechre Quaristice Electronic Warp Chris Walla Field Manual Indie rock Barsuk Course of Nature Damaged Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock Silent Majority Decrepit Birth Diminishing Between Worlds Technical death metal Unique Leader Records Dub Trio Another Sound Is Dying Dub, punk rock Ipecac Hawksley Workman Between the Beautifuls Indie rock Universal Music Canada The Helio Sequence Keep Your Eyes Ahead Indie rock Sub Pop Idina Menzel I Stand Pop Warner Bros., Reprise The Mars Volta The Bedlam in Goliath Progressive rock, jazz fusion, funk rock Gold Standard Laboratories, Universal Motown Protest the Hero Fortress Progressive metal, mathcore Vagrant, Underground Operations Thao & the Get Down Stay Down We Brave Bee Stings and All Folk Kill Rock Stars Vampire Weekend Vampire Weekend Indie pop, baroque pop, worldbeat XL Xiu Xiu Women as Lovers Art rock, experimental, post-punk Kill Rock Stars January30 Koda Kumi Kingdom Pop, R&B, rock Rhythm Zone Lykke Li Youth Novels Indie pop, synth-pop, dance-pop LL Recordings Tristan Prettyman Hello...x Pop Virgin
February + List of albums released in February 2008 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February4 Hot Chip Made in the Dark Indietronica, alternative dance EMI Laura Marling Alas, I Cannot Swim Folk-pop Virgin Miss Kittin BatBox Electronica, electroclash, dance Nobody's Bizzness Morcheeba Dive Deep Trip hop, downtempo Echo, Ultra February5 Bob Mould District Line Alternative rock Anti- Clipse We Got It for Cheap, Vol. 3 Hip-hop Re-Up Records Edison Glass Time Is Fiction Indie rock Credential Gwen Stacy The Life I Know Metalcore, post-hardcore Ferret Music Horace Silver Live at Newport '58 Hard bop Blue Note Jack Johnson Sleep Through the Static Folk rock, soft rock Brushfire, Universal Jason Collett Here's to Being Here Indie rock, alternative country Arts & Crafts Lenny Kravitz It Is Time for a Love Revolution Rock Virgin Nada Surf Lucky Alternative rock, indie rock Barsuk Sheryl Crow Detours Rock, pop rock, folk rock A&M Taylor Dayne Satisfied Dance-pop, pop rock, soul Adrenaline Records They Might Be Giants Here Come the 123s Children's music Disney Sound, Idlewild Records February11 The Mae Shi HLLLYH Experimental, punk Team Shi, Moshi Moshi February12 Averse Sefira Advent Parallax Black metal Candlelight Marco Benevento Invisible Baby Hyena Records Natalie Grant Relentless Contemporary Christian music Curb Newworldson Salvation Station CCM Inpop Sanctus Real We Need Each Other Christian rock, CCM, pop rock Sparrow Secret and Whisper Great White Whale Post-hardcore, alternative rock Tooth & Nail Simple Plan Simple Plan Alternative rock, pop-punk Lava, Atlantic February15 Eluveitie Slania Folk metal, melodic death metal, Celtic metal Nuclear Blast February18 Dismember Dismember Death metal Regain Hate Eternal Fury & Flames Death metal Metal Blade I Was a Cub Scout I Want You to Know That There Is Always Hope Indie rock Abeano XL The Mountain Goats Heretic Pride Folk rock, indie rock 4AD Pete and the Pirates Little Death Indie rock Stolen To-Mera Delusions Progressive metal Candlelight February19 Cherry Poppin' Daddies Susquehanna Space Age Bachelor Pad Records Chris Cagle My Life's Been a Country Song Country Capitol Nashville Genghis Tron Board Up the House Experimental metal, mathcore Relapse, Lovepump United Records Grand Archives The Grand Archives Indie rock Sub Pop Jim Jones Harlem's American Gangster East Coast hip-hop Koch Secondhand Serenade A Twist in My Story Acoustic rock, alternative rock, emo Glassnote This Is Hell Misfortunes Hardcore punk Trustkill The Trews No Time for Later Hard rock, alternative rock Bumstead February22 Los Campesinos! Hold on Now, Youngster... Indie pop, noise pop Wichita, Arts & Crafts Exciter Thrash Speed Burn Speed metal, thrash metal Massacre Goldfrapp Seventh Tree Folktronica, ambient, downtempo Mute Janet Jackson Discipline Pop, electronic, R&B Island Steel Attack Carpe DiEnd Power metal Massacre Unheilig Puppenspiel Neue Deutsche Härte Four Rock Entertainment February25 Dark Fortress Eidolon Black metal Century Media Sébastien Tellier Sexuality Synth-pop Record Makers, Lucky Number Music Toumani Diabaté The Mandé Variations Mande music World Circuit, Nonesuch February26 The Afters Never Going Back to OK Christian rock INO, Columbia Beach House Devotion Dream pop Carpark Cadia Cadia CCM, Christian pop, Christian rock Fervent Children 18:3 Children 18:3 Punk rock, Christian punk Tooth & Nail Death Angel Killing Season Thrash metal Nuclear Blast Dolly Parton Backwoods Barbie Country Dolly Records Earth The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull Rock Southern Lord Erykah Badu New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) Neo soul, funk, R&B Universal Motown Leeland Opposite Way Christian rock Essential MyChildren MyBride Unbreakable Solid State Pete Rock NY's Finest Hip-hop Nature Sounds Pillar For the Love of the Game Christian metal, alternative metal, hard rock Essential Plants and Animals Parc Avenue Indie rock Secret City Punch Brothers Punch Progressive bluegrass Nonesuch Shawty Lo Units in the City Hip-hop, gangsta rap Warner Bros., Asylum, D4L Records Stellar Kart Expect the Impossible Power pop, pop-punk, punk rock Word Webbie Savage Life 2 Southern hip-hop, gangsta rap Trill Entertainment, Asylum, Atlantic February27 Danko Jones Never Too Loud Rock Aquarius, Bad Taste February29 Agalloch The White Neofolk, dark ambient Vendlus
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