It's that time of year when everyone starts filling pages with end of year lists and music websites and blogs are piling into the “best of ‘08” argument with particular aplomb.

The team at the AV Club, an always-reliable pop culture barometer, opted for TV on the Radio’s Dear Science as the year’s best album. Many others have called it the same way. If “the best of 2008” was a Tour de France style race, the Brooklyn experimentalists would be out in front of the peloton wearing the yellow jersey, with Bon Iver, fifth in the AV Club’s list, not far behind.

However a minor row has broken out among the more pedantically inclinded folks in the comments sections of various sites (it can get real exciting), about whether Bon Iver’s album was released in 2007 or 2008. It all depends on your point of view - the album, For Emma Forever Ago, was self-released by Justin Vernon, the man behind the moniker, last year, then re-released in the US in February by Jagjaguwar records, and then released in the UK and Europe in May.

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