Month: December 2009

Albums released in 2009 that I listened to more than once and still have a non-trivial number of songs in my iTunes library as of today. Best way I can think of to describe what I liked last year without resorting to an arbitrary top ten/whatever list.

1. Aarktica – In Sea
2. Adam Franklin – Spent Bullets
3. Aidan Baker – Colorful Disturbances
4. Air – Love 2
5. Alasehir – Torment Of The Metals
6. All India Radio – A Low High
7. Ariana Delawari – Lion Of Panjshir
8. Asobi Seksu – Rewolf
9. Asobi Seksu – Transparence
10. Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound – When Sweet Sleep Returned
11. Au Revoir Simone – Still Night, Still Light
12. Bardo Pond – Volume 7
13. Barn Owl – The Conjurer
14. The Black Ryder – Buy The Ticket, Take The Ride
15. Blues Control – Local Flavor
16. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – Smoking Acid
17. British Sea Power – Man Of Aran
18. Broadcast & The Focus Group – Broadcast And The Focus Group Investigate Witch Cults Of The Radio Age
19. Caethua – The Long Afternoon Of Earth
20. Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
21. Candy Now! – Candy Now!
22. Céu – Vagarosa
23. Charlotte Hatherley – New Worlds
24. Cheval Sombre – Cheval Sombre
25. The Church – Untitled #23
26. The Clientele – Bonfires On The Heath
27. Clint Mansell – Moon (Soundtrack From The Motion Picture)
28. D.A. – Odeon
29. Dakota Suite – The End Of Trying
30. Dakota Suite – The Night Just Keeps Coming In
31. The Dead Sea – The Dead Sea
32. Dean & Britta – 13 Most Beautiful… Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
33. The Dolly Rocker Movement – Our Days Mind The Tyme
34. Dot Allison – Room 7½
35. Doves – Kingdom Of Rust
36. Emeralds – The Overlook
37. Emily Loizeau – Pays Sauvage
38. Engineers – Three Fact Fader
39. Epic45 – In All The Empty Houses
40. Espers – III
41. Eternal Tapestry – The Invisible Landscape
42. Evangelista – Prince Of Truth
43. Expo ’70 – White Ohms
44. Fell – Incoherent Lullabies
45. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
46. The Fiery Furnaces – I’m Going Away
47. The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
48. Floorian – More Fiend
49. The Flowers Of Hell – Come Hell Or High Water
50. Fog In The Shell – Private South
51. For Against – Never Been
52. Gareth Davis & Steven R. Smith – Westering
53. Girl In A Coma – Trio B.C.
54. Great Northern – Remind Me Where The Light Is
55. The Green Pajamas – Poison In The Russian Room
56. Heartless Bastards – The Mountain
57. Holly Beth Vincent – Minnesota-California
58. Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions – Through The Devil Softly
59. Howling Bells – Radio Wars
60. Iggy Pop – Preliminaires
61. Imogen Heap – Ellipse
62. Jack Rose – The Black Dirt Sessions
63. Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers – Jack Rose & The Black Twig Pickers
64. Jackie-O Motherfucker – Ballads Of The Revolution
65. Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
66. Jasper TX – Singing Stones
67. Jasper TX & Anduin – The Bending Of Light
68. Jeniferever – Spring Tides
69. Jets Overhead – No Nations
70. John Doe & The Sadies – Country Club
71. Julianna Barwick – Florine
72. Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds – Dracula Boots
73. Lady GaGa – The Fame Monster
74. Lamp Of The Universe – Acid Mantra
75. Les Terribles – Ils sont formidables
76. Lhasa – Lhasa
77. Lindstrøm & Christabelle – Real Life Is No Cool
78. Loscil – Strathcona Variations
79. The Lovetones – Dimensions
80. LSD March – Under Milk Wood
81. The Madd – The Madd Are Pretty Quick!
82. Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs – Under The Covers Vol. 2
83. Maxïmo Park – Quicken The Heart
84. Messer Chups – Heretic Channel
85. Mia Doi Todd – Morning Music
86. The Morning After Girls – Alone
87. The Mountain Goats – The Life Of The World To Come
88. A Mountain Of One – Institute Of Joy
89. Múm – Sing Along To Songs You Don’t Know
90. MV & EE – Barn Nova
91. Natural Snow Buildings – Shadow Kingdom
92. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
93. Nite Jewel – Want You Back EP
94. Nouvelle Vague – 3
95. Noveller – Red Rainbows
96. Nudge – As Good As Gone
97. The Observatory – Dark Folke
98. Olivia Ruiz – Miss Météores
99. Oneida – Rated O
100. Paul Westerberg – PW & The Ghost Gloves Cat Wing Joy Boys
101. Peter Wright – An Angel Fell Where The Kestrel Hover
102. Peter Wright – Snow Blind
103. Phantogram – Eyelid Movies
104. Phoenix – Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
105. Pocahaunted – Passage
106. The Postmarks – Memoirs At The End Of The World
107. Psychic Ills – Mirror Eye
108. The Raveonettes – In And Out Of Control
109. Robin Guthrie – Carousel
110. Robyn Hitchcock – Goodnight Oslo
111. Rowland S. Howard – Pop Crimes
112. Sahara Hotnights – Sparks
113. Sally Shapiro – My Guilty Pleasure
114. Sam Phillips – A Piece Of My Brightside
115. Sian Alice Group – Troubled, Shaken, Etc.
116. Simon Wickham-Smith – A Seventh Persimmon
117. Six Organs Of Admittance – Luminous Night
118. Sonic Youth – The Eternal
119. SPC-ECO – 3-D
120. Speck Mountain – Some Sweet Relief
121. Spectrum – War Sucks
122. Spiral Joy Band – Little Sparrow
123. Stela Campos – Mustang Bar
124. Stella Peel – Stella Peel
125. Steve Kilbey & Martin Kennedy – Unseen Music Unheard Words
126. Steven R. Smith – Cities
127. The Submarines – The Honeysuckle Remixes
128. Sun Araw – Heavy Deeds
129. Sun Araw – In Orbit
130. Tannhäuser – Para Entonces Habrás Muerto
131. Tara Jane O’Neil – A Ways Away
132. Tiny Vipers – Life On Earth
133. Tom Waits – Glitter And Doom Live
134. U2 – No Line On The Horizon
135. Viva Voce – Rose City
136. Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong
137. The Warlocks – The Mirror Explodes
138. White Hills – Dead
139. White Rainbow – New Clouds
140. William Basinski – 92982
141. William Fowler Collins – Perdition Hill Radio
142. Windy & Carl – Monolith: Earth
143. Wye Oak – The Knot
144. The XX – XX
145. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
146. Yo La Tengo – Popular Songs
147. Zak Sally – Fear Of Song