We’ve never seen violence against breakfast food go so right — the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are making a serious play for best album art of 2009 with the cover of their upcoming It’s Blitz! and it’s only February. Warning: this is not for faint-of-heart-Vegans.
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In case you were wondering the criteria for our best of 2008, it’s the result of the accumulated average of our writers and contributors picks. So while some records were universally lauded, if they were easily classifiable or polarizing, they seemed to fare worse than those that could be appreciated by a wide variety of people. Thus coming in at #11, the Foals Antidotes.
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