The late ’00s are rarely a period of music looked back on with much fondness. In an era of bands being hyped one minute and forgotten the next amid a saturated market, music formats were changing and we hadn’t quite accepted it yet. Social media was beginning to get a grip on our lives too, and the biggest ‘artist’ brewing was the Great Recession, though still in his underground ‘Credit Crunch’ phase at this stage.

Still, there’s always wheat among the chaff and a mixture of veterans and newbies did their best to make ’08 great with these memorable albums that, I shit you not, are about to hit double figures.