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So, what was the best album of 2008? OiP asked some of our favourite music experts for their take on it – here’s what they had to say!
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Roisin Murphy – Overpowered
She’s into the disco this time… God, she’s a hot woman. Her voice is like therapy. She is a clown. Simply Brilliant.
Brash and Sassy – local female electro group and reigning queens of Italo-disco
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Goldfrapp – Seventh Tree
After the kinky-sex, bondage mistress and Weimar cabaret meets Germanic electro disco of her early work, Goldfrapp that sounds like bucolic and ethereal folk music influenced by the Cocteau twins… The opening track sounds likes it’s about flowers and fairies, but it’s actually about the absurdity of breast implants and how they’ll never decompose!
Tim Brown – Connections Nightclub owner, disco-tragic, fashion victim and music obsessive
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Randy Newman – Harps and Angels
I want to be like Randy Newman when I’m old. Bitter, eloquent and able to get on the bad side of entire countries with one bitingly satirical lyric. But I think I’ll just be lame and grumpy.
Tomás Ford – electro punk anarchist and sex icon
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Lady Gaga -The Fame
Gaga puts the final nail in Madonna’s coffin with this piece of Pop Perfection – the album that every gay boy dreams of releasing when he becomes a popstar!
Feminem – performer, DJ, fashion victim and superstar!
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Amy Winehouse – Frank (remixed with bonus CD)
Sassy, brazen, talented and tortured – the calling card of a magnificent jazz singer.
Brett Dias – music writer for Drum, Tranzfusion, Central Station and OUTinPerth by night, not-so-mild mannered PR professional by day
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Cyndi Lauper – Bring Ya to the Brink
A dance floor gem with grinding bass lines and rifts and moods that change with every track – long may she reign supreme!
Terry Larder (aka Estee) – OUTinPerth music reviewer and Perth’s reigning queen of show tunes has been running the non-stop drag sing-a-long rollercoaster Club West for 19 years and still insists he’s only 27!
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Coldplay – Viva La Vida or Death and All His Friends
Experimental without being ‘wanky’ and a refreshing change from all the predictable commercial pop that bombards the radio waves. The string arrangements are close to a musical orgasm for me.
Nat Ripepi – muso extraordinaire and Pride Fairday guitar rocker of choice
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Santi (formerly known as Santogold) – Santogold
The album cover shows Santi spewing gold glitter – and my god, if gold glitter could be liquified into a single album of sparkly synthesized electro-rock specs, this is it.
Megan Smith – OUTinPerth Music Editor, bonafide Guitar Hero rock star, karaoke failure
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Crystal Castles – Crystal Castles
The reigning champions of Atari glitch tech thrash pop debut with all the force and static of white noise waking you up at 3 in the morning after you’ve fallen asleep because, yes, before hearing this album your life was that dull.
Scott-Patrick Mitchell – OUTinPerth journalist, poet, writer, zine editor & fashionista.
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So, what’s your favourite album? Take a second and tell us below…
