CHIRP: The Chicago Independent Radio Project

Dustin Drase writes

Caitlin Lavin's Top Ten of 2008

Part two of our month long collection of “best of” lists finds Caitlin loving the new Vivian Girls, Calexico, Bonnie Prince Billy and more…

Read on to see her full list

benoit pioulard – temper (kranky)
vivian girls – s/t (in the red)
nisennenmondai – tori/neji (smalltown supersound)
the accidental – there were wolves (thrill jockey)
bonnie prince billy – lie down in the light (drag city)
school of seven bells – alpinisms (ghostly international)
calexico – carried to dust (quarterstick)
spiritualized – songs in a&e (fontana)
grouper – dragging a dead deer up a hill (type)
m83 – saturdays = youth (mute)

honorary mentions to-

love is all – a hundred things keep me up at night (what’s your rupture?)
deerhunter – microcastle (kranky)
high places – s/t (thrill jockey)