50 albums that grabbed my attention in 2009.
1-20 (unordered):
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
HEALTH – Get Color
Andrew Bird – Noble Beast
Fever Ray – Self-titled
Amadou en Mariam – Welcome to Mali
The XX – XX
The Twilight Sad – Forget the Night Ahead
Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion
We Were Promised Jetpacks – These Four Walls
John Doe & The Sadies – Country Club
Hanggai – Introducing Hanggai
Max Richter – Memoryhouse (reissue)
Harmonic 313 – When Machines Exceed Human Intelligence
Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
James Blackshaw – The Glass Bead Game
Zelienople – Give It Up
Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
The Phantom Band – Checkmate Savage
Blakroc – Self-titled
50 albums that grabbed my attention in 2009.
21-50 (unordered):
Malcolm Middleton – Waxing Gibbous
De Rosa – Prevention
Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
jj – no.2
Liam Finn & Eliza Jane – Champagne in Seashells
Hannu – Hintergarten
The Beatles - Remasters
PJ Harvey & John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Aidan Moffat and the Best-Ofs – How to Get to Heaven From Scotland
Bugskull – Communication
Haushcka – Snowflakes and Carwrecks
The Pains of Being Pure At Heart – Self-titled
Roosbeef - Ze Willen Wel je Jond Aaien Maar Niet Met je Praten
Telepathe – Dance Mother
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
The Big Pink – A Brief History of Love
Nosaj Thing – Drift
Dizzee Rascal – Tongue N Cheek
Mirah – (a)spera
Andy Moor & DJ/Rupture – Patches
Lord Cut Glass – Self-titled
Dan Deacon – Bromst
My Latest Novel – Deaths and Entrances
Florence & The Machine - Lungs
The Very Best – Warm Heart of Africa
Pink Mountaintops – Outside Love
Condo Fucks - Fuckbook
Julian Plenti – Julian Plenti is… Skyscraper
Baroness – Blue Record