Tracks I liked from 2008

This has been a long time coming but I'd like to post some of my favorite music tracks from last year. The following 5 tracks seemed to get more listening time than any others during my evaluation. These aren't in any particular order since the genres aren't really comparable.

Meshuggah - Bleed (Yes that's a real drummer. And only 1 drummer.)
[audio:http://upload.naasen.org/up/03%20-%20Meshuggah%20-%20Bleed.mp3]

Priscilla Ahn - Dream (It's been featured in quite a few soundtracks so I lose cred for that. But being the father of 2 daughters, the sentimentality captures me.)
[audio:http://upload.naasen.org/up/01%20-%20Dream.mp3]

Andrew Bird - Effigy
[audio:http://upload.naasen.org/up/04%20-%20Effigy.mp3]

Azam Ali & Tyler Bates - The Spill (Tyler Bates does the equivalent of modern synth guitar Top Gun soundtracks for Zack Snyder (director of 300 and Watchmen). Sure it's cheese, but it's catchy and I've listened to this track way too many times to worry about it.)
[audio:http://upload.naasen.org/up/Azam%20Ali%20and%20Tyler%20Bates%20-%20The%20Spill.mp3]

7l & Esoteric + Mr. Lif - Operating Correctly
[audio:http://upload.naasen.org/up/06%20-%20Operating%20Correctly%20%28Feat.%20Mr.%20Lif%29.mp3]



That's it for now. I'll start highlighting new tracks as they come out. I can't keep looking back to 2008 only. So things I find, I'll post. There's some other stuff I'd like to post but this little audio player starts having issues the more instances of it you post. Sorry Sera Cahoone and Fleet Foxes, you've gotten a lot of play time but everyone knows you're awesome anyway.

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