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The final hours of 2008 are winding down, and I’m done with my month-long run-through of 31 albums from this roller coaster ride of a year. Here are links to the music I dug in the Year of the Rat:

Day 1 - Fleet Foxes - Ragged Wood
Day 2 - Dennis Wilson – Pacific Ocean Blue / Bambu
Day 3 - The Breeders - Mountain Battles
Day 4 - She & Him - Volume One
Day 5 - The Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Day 6 - Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
Day 7 - Stereolab – Chemical Chords
Day 8 - The Dutchess and The Duke – She’s The Dutchess, He’s The Duke
Day 9 - Sharon Van Etten - Sharon Van Etten
Day 10 - Endless Boogie - Focus Level
Day 11 - Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Day 12 - Various Artists – Thank You Friends: The Ardent Records Story
Day 13 - Charlottesville albums
Day 14 - Nethers - What The Wind Will Never Tell
Day 15 - Abel Okugawa - Dance Like A Speaker
Day 16 - Lil Wayne – Tha Carter III
Days 17 and 18 - Antony and the Johnsons - Another World EP and Arbouretum/Pontiak - Kale
Day 19 - Marnie Stern - This Is It and I Am It and You Are It and So Is That and He Is It and She Is It and It Is It and That Is That
Day 20 - Envelopes - Here Comes The Wind
Day 21 - Emmylou Harris – All I Intended To Be
Day 22 - Pontiak – Sun on Sun
Days 23-26 - Caitlin Rose, Women, Donny Hue and the Colors and TV on the Radio
Day 27 - Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak
Day 28 - Birdlips - Cardboard Wings
Day 29 - Fuck Buttons - Street Horrrsing
Day 30 - Jay Reatard - Matador Singles ‘08
Day 31 - Stephen Malkmus & Jicks - Real Emotional Trash