Category: CKB

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

Albums released in 2008 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. Alastair Galbraith – Orb
2. Antietam – Opus Mixtum
3. Aterciopelados – Rio
4. Au Revoir Borealis – Dark Enough For Stars
5. Auburn Lull – Begin Civil Twilight
6. Avrocar – Against The Dying Of The Light
7. The B-52’s – Funplex
8. Barbara Morgenstern – BM
9. Bardo Pond – Batholith
10. Barn Owl – From Our Mouths A Perpetual Light
11. Beangrowers – Not In A Million Lovers
12. Belong – Colorloss Record
13. Belong – Same Places
14. Benoît Pioulard – Temper
15. Bitcrush – Epilogue In Waves
16. The Black Angels – Directions To See A Ghost
17. The Breeders – Mountain Battles
18. The Brian Jonestown Massacre – My Bloody Underground
19. Brightblack Morning Light – Motion To Rejoin
20. The Broken West – Now Or Heaven
21. Caesars – Strawberry Weed
22. Calexico – Carried To Dust
23. Camille – Music Hole
24. Caramelitus – El Otro Habitat EP
25. Cat Power – Jukebox
26. Celer – Discourses Of The Withered
27. Cloudland Canyon – Lie In Light
28. Clue To Kalo – Lily Perdida
29. Crystal Stilts – Alight Of Night
30. David Byrne & Brian Eno – Everything That Happens Will Happen Today
31. David Gilmour – Live In Gdansk
32. The Declining Winter – Goodbye Minnesota
33. Duffy – Rockferry
34. The Duke Spirit – Neptune
35. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live
36. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live Vol. 2
37. Ed Kuepper – Ed Kuepper Live Vol. 3: The Euroboot Album
38. The Fall – Imperial Wax Solvent
39. Fennesz – Black Sea
40. First Communion Afterparty – Sorry For All The Mondays And To Those Who Can’t Sing
41. Fuck Buttons – Street Horrrsing
42. Gas – Nah Und Fern
43. Grails – Doomsdayer’s Holiday
44. Grails – Take Refuge In Clean Living
45. Grouper – Dragging A Dead Dear Up A Hill
46. Headless Heroes – The Silence Of Love
47. Helen Boulding – New Red Dress
48. Hollow Ox – Hollow Ox
49. Infadels – Universe In Reverse
50. James Blackshaw – Litany Of Echoes
51. Jane Birkin – Enfants D’hiver
52. Jasper TX – Black Sleep
53. Jasper TX – Closet Ghosts
54. Jasper TX – This Quiet Season
55. Je Suis Animal – Self-Taught Magic From A Book
56. Juliana Hatfield – How To Walk Away
57. Kontakte – Soundtracks To Lost Road Movies
58. Ladytron – Velocifero
59. Lakes Of Russia – Stars Decorate The Fire
60. Lau Nau – Nukkuu
61. Lawrence English – Kiri No Oto
62. Lights Out Asia – Eyes Like Brontide
63. Lola Dutronic – In Berlin
64. The Long Blondes – Couples
65. The Lovetones – Dimensions
66. M83 – Saturdays = Youth
67. Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets – Native Korean Rock & The Fishnets
68. Nicole Atkins – Digs Other People’s Songs
69. Our Sleepless Forest – Our Sleepless Forest
70. Piano Magic – Dark Horses EP
71. Portishead – Third
72. The Postmarks – By The Numbers
73. The Quarter After – Changes Near
74. Quiet Village – Silent Movie
75. R.E.M. – Accelerate
76. The Raveonettes – Sometimes They Drop By
77. The Raveonettes – Wishing You A Rave Christmas
78. Red Sparowes – Aphorisms
79. Sam Phillips – Don’t Do Anything
80. School Of Seven Bells – Alpinisms
81. Scott Tuma – Not For Nobody
82. Secret Machines – Secret Machines
83. The Shortwave Set – Replica Sun Machine
84. Sophie Hunger – Monday’s Ghost
85. Spectrum Meets Captain Memphis – Indian Giver
86. Spiritualized – Songs In A&E
87. Stereolab – Chemical Chords
88. Steve Kilbey – Painkiller
89. Suki Ewers – Kind Of Hazy
90. Thee American Revolution – Buddha Electrostorm
91. Ulaan Khol – Ulaan Khol I
92. Ulaan Khol – Ulaan Khol II
93. The Verve – Forth
94. Vivian Girls – Vivian Girls
95. The Walkmen – You & Me
96. White Hinterland – Luniculaire EP
97. Windy & Carl – Songs For The Broken Hearted
98. Windy Weber – I Hate People
99. Wire – Object 47
100. Wooden Shjips – Wooden Shjips Vol. 1
101. Wye Oak – If Children
102. Yellow6 – When The Leaves Fall Like Snow
103. Yo La Tengo – They Shoot, We Score