December 31, 2009

Best of 2009 Pt. 2: Albums

Better inconspicuously late than never, I suppose. Stripped of all illuminating commentary and sentimental recollections of "first listens" and "realizations of essentiality", I present to you a list of albums I listened to, intentionally, more than a few times, over the course of 2009.

Honourable Mentions

M. Pyres – Cast Off / Cold Months
Desolation Wilderness – New Universe
Circulatory System – Signal Morning
Hey!Tonal – Hey!Tonal
Neon Indian - Psychic Chasms
Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
A Sunny Day In Glasgow - Ashes Grammar
Cold Cave - Love Comes Close
Why? – Eskimo Snow
Bear In Heaven – Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Kona Triangle - Sing A New Sapling Into Existence
Health - Get Color
Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
Inverness – Forest Fortress
Hermit Thrushes – Slight Fountain

Best "EPs"

Animal Collective – Fall Be Kind
Wet Hair - Dream
Gold Panda - Before/Miyamae
High Wolf – Animal Totem
Emeralds - What Happened
Oneohtrix Point Never - Betrayed In The Octagon

Best Albums

20. Magik Markers – Balf Quarry
19. Black Dice – Repo
18. Mount Eerie – Wind's Poem
17. Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
16. Thee Oh Sees – Help
15. Pterodactyl – Worldwild
14. Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
13. Real Estate – Real Estate
12. Atlas Sound – Logos
11. Nosaj Thing – Drift
10. White Denim – Fits
9. Ganglians – Monster Head Room
8. Bygones – by-
7. Eric Copeland – Alien In A Garbage Dump
6. Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
5. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
4. Dan Deacon – Bromst
3. Bibio – Ambivalence Avenue
2. Dirty Projectors – Bitte Orca
1. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavilion

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