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The Quietus' Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 14 to One
The Quietus , December 9th, 2008 08:22

The Quietus finishes our countdown of the very best albums of 2008. Who will make the top?

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NUMBER ONE: The Bug - London Zoo
Gloom has become such a wretched cliché for musics circling around the dubstep diaspora in 2008. What is missing is dread – an ambiguous label for an intangible lifeforce, and which here finds an expression in invulnerability as a response to universally-felt fear; something God-sized and metal-cold and itching and tingling with life. David McNamee

Read the full Quietus review of The Bug's London Zoo