Doomriders2009 in Music
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Zu – Carboniferous
Khanate – Clean Hands go foul
Nisennenmondai– FAN
Boris/ Torche - chapter ahead being fake
Dalek – Gutter Tactics
Pissed Jeans– King of Jeans
Animal Collective– Merriweather Post Pavillion
Sunn O)))– Monoliths & Dimensions
THE NOVEMBERS – Paraphilia
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
Monotonix– where were you when it happened?
Cymbals Eat Guitar– why there are mountains
A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Kid606– Shout at the Doner
Nero's Day At Disneyland – from rotting fantasylands
A Forest of Stars– The Corpse of Rebirth
Castrovalva – Self titled EP
Black Moth Super Rainbow– Eating Us
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Japandroids – Post Nothing
Rise & Fall– Our Circle is Vicious
Bats – Red in Tooth & Claw
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Doomriders– Darkness comes alive
Jesu – Opiate Sun
Apse– Climb Up
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
OOIOO– Armonico Hewa
Baroness – Blue Record
Do Make Say Think– Other truths
Enablers – Tundra
Converge – Axe to fall
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
William Elliot Whitmore– Animals in the Dark
Six Organs of Admittance– Luminous Night
HEALTH – Get Color
Lovvers – OCD Go Go Go Girls
Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
Why? – Eskimo Snow
Part Chimp – Thriller
Shit & Shine – 229 – 2299 Girls against shit
Kong – Snake Magnet
Sabertooth Zombie - ... and your fathers are dead...
Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
mewithoutYou – It’s all crazy! It’s all false! It’s all a dream! It’s alright
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Blut aus Nord – Dialogue with the Stars
Future of the Left – Travels with myself and another
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
The Paper Chase – Someday this could all be yours, vol. 1
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Resurrectionists & the night raider
Big Business – Mind the Drift
Crippled Black Phoenix – 200 tons of bad luck
Dananananaykroyd – Hey everyone
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Buried Inside – Spoils of failure
Mono – hymn to the immortal wind
Zombi – Spirit Animal
Ars Dada - Assaualt Machine
Anaal Nathrakh - In the constellation of the ....
However if I was going to pick a top 5 it would be this:
1. Tim Hecker
2. Health
3. Zu
4. Pissed Jeans
5. I couldnt pick a fifth. So lets just leave is as top 4.
These are the 60 odd releases of my year. Some dont really deserve to be in this end of the year best of lists (see Khanate, oh god, that was awful), but they have a place here as this list doubles up as snapshot of the year.
I imagine there are some that werent actually released this year (and if there is I dont care, just keep it to yourself, ok, this isnt an excercise in the anal its a celebration of 2009 in music). Anyway this list is dictated by british release dates not the relase dates of whatever country you live in.
What I do care about, however, is bands/releases that I have missed out on and bands I should check out on the basis on whats included in this list. So by all means I'm happy to listen to what people have to say. Like Zola Jesus, I might check her stuff out for example, thats just to get the ball rolling.
New discovery of the year award (thats for the band that I didnt know about before this year, whether the band is new or old) goes to Corrupted. That performance at Supersonic alone was enough to make me a massive fan, its just a shame that finding their releases isnt as easy.
Heres hoping 2010 can be as good
Tim Hecker – An Imaginary Country
Wolves in the Throne Room – Black Cascade
Zu – Carboniferous
Khanate – Clean Hands go foul
Nisennenmondai– FAN
Boris/ Torche - chapter ahead being fake
Dalek – Gutter Tactics
Pissed Jeans– King of Jeans
Animal Collective– Merriweather Post Pavillion
Sunn O)))– Monoliths & Dimensions
THE NOVEMBERS – Paraphilia
maudlin of the Well – Part the Second
Crystal Antlers – Tentacles
Monotonix– where were you when it happened?
Cymbals Eat Guitar– why there are mountains
A Place to Bury Strangers – Exploding Head
Kid606– Shout at the Doner
Nero's Day At Disneyland – from rotting fantasylands
A Forest of Stars– The Corpse of Rebirth
Castrovalva – Self titled EP
Black Moth Super Rainbow– Eating Us
Dan Deacon – Bromst
Japandroids – Post Nothing
Rise & Fall– Our Circle is Vicious
Bats – Red in Tooth & Claw
The Horrors – Primary Colours
Doomriders– Darkness comes alive
Jesu – Opiate Sun
Apse– Climb Up
The Flaming Lips – Embryonic
The Mars Volta – Octahedron
OOIOO– Armonico Hewa
Baroness – Blue Record
Do Make Say Think– Other truths
Enablers – Tundra
Converge – Axe to fall
Fuck Buttons – Tarot Sport
Burnt by the Sun – Heart of Darkness
William Elliot Whitmore– Animals in the Dark
Six Organs of Admittance– Luminous Night
HEALTH – Get Color
Lovvers – OCD Go Go Go Girls
Lightning Bolt – Earthly Delights
Why? – Eskimo Snow
Part Chimp – Thriller
Shit & Shine – 229 – 2299 Girls against shit
Kong – Snake Magnet
Sabertooth Zombie - ... and your fathers are dead...
Tortoise – Beacons of Ancestorship
mewithoutYou – It’s all crazy! It’s all false! It’s all a dream! It’s alright
Eels – Hombre Lobo
Blut aus Nord – Dialogue with the Stars
Future of the Left – Travels with myself and another
Agoraphobic Nosebleed – Agorapocalypse
The Paper Chase – Someday this could all be yours, vol. 1
Crippled Black Phoenix – The Resurrectionists & the night raider
Big Business – Mind the Drift
Crippled Black Phoenix – 200 tons of bad luck
Dananananaykroyd – Hey everyone
Kylesa – Static Tensions
Buried Inside – Spoils of failure
Mono – hymn to the immortal wind
Zombi – Spirit Animal
Ars Dada - Assaualt Machine
Anaal Nathrakh - In the constellation of the ....
However if I was going to pick a top 5 it would be this:
1. Tim Hecker
2. Health
3. Zu
4. Pissed Jeans
5. I couldnt pick a fifth. So lets just leave is as top 4.
These are the 60 odd releases of my year. Some dont really deserve to be in this end of the year best of lists (see Khanate, oh god, that was awful), but they have a place here as this list doubles up as snapshot of the year.
I imagine there are some that werent actually released this year (and if there is I dont care, just keep it to yourself, ok, this isnt an excercise in the anal its a celebration of 2009 in music). Anyway this list is dictated by british release dates not the relase dates of whatever country you live in.
What I do care about, however, is bands/releases that I have missed out on and bands I should check out on the basis on whats included in this list. So by all means I'm happy to listen to what people have to say. Like Zola Jesus, I might check her stuff out for example, thats just to get the ball rolling.
New discovery of the year award (thats for the band that I didnt know about before this year, whether the band is new or old) goes to Corrupted. That performance at Supersonic alone was enough to make me a massive fan, its just a shame that finding their releases isnt as easy.
Heres hoping 2010 can be as good
