Poniedziałek 28 Gru 2009, 21:00
i hate myself for forgetting to do my personal charts for 2007 and 2008, but i'm ready to do so again this year. so here's the bombshell:
top ten albums of 2009 (in no particular order):
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
mewithoutYou - it's all crazy! it's all false! it's all a dream! it's alright
Touché Amoré - ...To The Beat Of A Dead Horse
Jesca Hoop - Hunting My Dress
Mi And L'au - Good Morning Jokers
Ohbijou - Beacons
Regina Spektor - Far
Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
Alpinist - minus.mensch
Danger Mouse And Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
top twenty songs of 2009 (in no particular order):
mewithoutYou – the Fox, the Crow, and the Cookie
Polly Scattergood - I Hate The Way
Kashiwa Daisuke - Requiem
Moderat - A New Error
The Dø – The Bridge Is Broken
Cursive – What Have I Done?
Metric - Help I'm Alive
Soap&Skin - Spiracle
Mistabishi - Printer Jam
Make The Girl Dance - Baby Baby Baby
Chinawoman – Party Girl
Lady GaGa - Paparazzi (haters gonna hate)
Phantom/Ghost - Thrown Out of Drama School
fnessnej - Gewehrwolfgang
Telefon Tel Aviv - The Birds
The Bloody Beetroots - Warp 1.9 (feat. Steve Aoki)
Touché Amoré – Honest Sleep
Jagoda – reality is not my friend
Holding onto Hope - We Are The Beacons
Fever Ray - If I Had A Heart
official soundtrack of the year:
Karen O and the Kids - Where The Wild Things Are
artist(s) of the year:
Peter Broderick / Nils Frahm
Troels Abrahamsen
most unnecessary artist of the year:
Omar A. Rodriguez-Lopez (also The Mars Volta, i just wanna have At The Drive-In back)
best artist of the last twenty years:
Sonic Youth
workaholic of the year:
Wixel
biggest letdowns of the year:
Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
Callisto - Providence
insiders' tips:
fnessnej
Jagoda
Storm The Bastille
Heather Woods Broderick
best newcomer:
Polly Scattergood
Bombay Bicycle Club
Swanton Bombs
i wanna hear more by:
Sleigh Bells
Anna Rikje Rosenthal
shouldhaveknowns (artists that i've only learnt about this year and whose music i fell in love with, despite the fact that they're long gone):
Fugazi
The Blood Brothers
Elliott Smith
honorable mentions:
Why?, Balmorhea, The XX, Chinawoman, ISIS, Julianna Barwick, Punch, Dÿse, Andrei Machado, HEALTH, Antony and The Johnsons, Emeralds, Ira, Kyle Landstra, Awesome Wells, Beirut, Ólafur Arnalds, Celeste, Fall Of Efrafa, Holding Onto Hope, Iron & Wine, Patrick Watson, Kaospilot, Bark Cat Bark, Danny Norbury, Rameses III
so now there's nothing much to say but: let's hope for a great 2010 and fuck i haven't listened to the new Archive release yet.