Nat Baldwin's Top Ten of 2008

Picture via Nat Baldwin's Myspace
December is list-making season. And for us music journalists, it is a time to look back on scores of albums, reflect upon the music and recapitulate our favorites. But this year, just like the last, we took this opportunity to flip that tradition upside down, asking the artists that influenced us what influenced them. The prompt was not limited to albums that came out in 2008.
Extra Life - Secular Works
Kurt Weisman - Spiritual Sci-Fi
The Dead Science - Villainaire
Skeletons - Money
Dead Western - Soften Your Screams Into Sings
Castanets - City Of Refuge
Talons - Songs For Babes
Josephine Foster - This Coming Gladness
Snowblink - Long Live
Ben and Bruno - 100 Grim Reapers
Nat Baldwin - "Lifted"