Half Gone with the new Shearwater

[Davey]

I'm just about to spin Rook for the first time. Small world, eh?

As for best of '08 my current so-far-favorite is this: Will Bonnie Prince Billy Palace Oldham

I was kind of on the fence about picking up anything new from Will, but may have to reconnoiter on that one now. Really that good? Rook is incredible! Songs like "The Snow Leopard" really do change his status in my mind, making him one of the top musical visionaries today, almost like a post rock version of David Bowie. Yea, some of it has been done before by Talk Talk and Radiohead and Jeff Buckley, and even Scott Walker when he isn't so madly cryptic and overblown, but this is pretty special shit, especially in today's play-it-safe pop music climate.