looking forward to 2008!

I doubt that 2008 can match 2007's avalanche of wondrous new albums, but there are definitely things to be excited about in the months to come... Here are the albums (some certain, some rumors) that I am looking forward to this year:

Be Your Own Pet - Get Awkward
Beach House - Devotion
*Bodies Of Water - Ears Will Pop & Eyes Will Blink
*British Sea Power - Do You Like Rock Music?
Britt Daniel
Built To Spill
*Christian Silva - Onward!
Cloud Cult
Colin Meloy - Skulls, Ship, Sheep
Constantines
Dan Deacon
Daniel Lanois - Here Is What Is
Death Cab For Cutie
Destroyer - Trouble In Dreams
DeVotchKa - Spirit
Dirty On Purpose - Like Bees EP
Dirty Pretty Things
Doves
Early Day Miners
Elbow - The Seldom Seen Kid
*Evangelicals - The Evening Descends
Franz Ferdinand
Frightened Rabbit - Midnight Organ Fight
Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. - Searching For The Hows And Whys
Gillian Welch
Girl Talk
*Grand Archives - The Grand Archives
Great Northern - Sleepy EP
Handsome Furs
Hello, Blue Roses
Islands
Isobel Campbell
The Kooks - Konk
The Long Blondes - Couples
Los Campesinos! - Hold On Now Youngster...
Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping
The M's
Man Man - Rabbit Habits
Mates Of State
Menomena
Metric
*Mountain Goats - Heretic Pride
Patrick Wolf
Pete Doherty
The Postal Service
R.E.M. - Accelerate
Say Hi - The Wishes And The Glitch
Shearwater - Rook
Silver Jews - Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea
Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin - Pershing
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Real Emotional Trash
Sun Kil Moon - April
Tapes 'N Tapes
Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
What Made Milwaukee Famous - What Doesn't Kill Us
Wolf Parade
The Wrens
*Xiu Xiu - Women As Lovers

* = the few albums that I've actually had the opportunity to listen to. They are mostly brilliant so far... go 2008!!

Early prediction - British Sea Power, Christian Silva, Grand Archives, Mountain Goats & Vampire Weekend are going to figure high in the end of year list. Note it. (Actually, look for more fawning over the Grand Archives album, and soon. I know it's only January and too early to start thinking about album of the year, but...). Yeah.