Parov StelarIn recent years I've grown increasingly weary of the hauteur and decided against allowing myself malleable in my personal music taste. Let the first draft of my favorites of 2009 follow. There were vast amounts of fantastic albums released this year.
List #1: Ultimate favorites. Limited to fifty-five.
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
GREYMACHINE - Disconnected
Audionom - Superior
Rupa & The April Fishes - Este Mundo
Quantic And His Combo Bárbaro - Tradition In Transition
The Craftmen Club - Thirty Six Minutes
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Parov Stelar - Coco
The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
Iris Leu - Hushaboo
Corde Oblique - The Stones of Naples
Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
Klimek - Movies Is Magic
PHANTOGRAM - Eyelid Movies
Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Heads
Side Liner - Crying Cities
SMOOVE & TURRELL - Antique Soul
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Muse - The Resistance
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
Vetiver - Tight Knit
Tenhornedbeast - My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster
Meti Bhuvah - II
Amorphis - Skyforger
Emily Jane White - Victorian America
Rykarda Parasol- For Blood And Wine
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Der Weg Einer Freiheit
End - III
Thra'el - Writhing Sigils
Graveyard - One With The Dead
Masachist - Death March Fury
The Twilight Sad - Don't Forget The Night Ahead
Kreng - L’autopsie phénoménale de Dieu
Mechanical Cabaret - Damaged Goods
Breakestra - Dusk Till Dawn
Broken Note - Terminal Static
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
Absu - Absu
Strandhogg - The Ritualistic Plague
Diocletian - Doom Cult
Wye Oak - The Knot
The Witch And The Robot - On Safari
Space Bong - The Death of Utopia
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Yagya - Rigning
Martyn - Great Lengths
King Cannibal - Let The Night Roar
Islands - Vapours
#2: Albums I consider good overall, but were a letdown compared to past performances or what I expected. Limited to twenty-five.
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours
Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies
Firebird - Grand Union
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Rome - Flowers From Exile
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
Furia - Grudzień Za Grudniem
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud
Soulsavers - Broken
Hellveto - Od Południa na Północ
Asobi Seksu - Hush
Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Clubroot - Clubroot
Piano Magic - Ovations
YOB - The Great Cessation
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Intestine Baalism - Ultimate Instinct
#3: Albums that I anticipated and ended up with total shitfests that come off as either atrociously weak attempts or thorough aural abortions. Major disappointments from typically trusted people. Thanks for getting my hopes up. Limited to twenty.
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
Marduk - Wormwood
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
Månegarm - Nattväsen
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Portal - Swarth
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Ad Hominem - A Moment of Glory
Woods of Ypres - Woods IV: The Green Album
La Coka Nostra - A Brand You Can Trust
P.O.S. - Never Better
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Note to self: 2009 isn't over yet.
List #1: Ultimate favorites. Limited to fifty-five.
Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter
Church of Misery - Houses of the Unholy
GREYMACHINE - Disconnected
Audionom - Superior
Rupa & The April Fishes - Este Mundo
Quantic And His Combo Bárbaro - Tradition In Transition
The Craftmen Club - Thirty Six Minutes
Pure Reason Revolution - Amor Vincit Omnia
Parov Stelar - Coco
The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore
Iris Leu - Hushaboo
Corde Oblique - The Stones of Naples
Joe Henry - Blood From Stars
Klimek - Movies Is Magic
PHANTOGRAM - Eyelid Movies
Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun
A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Heads
Side Liner - Crying Cities
SMOOVE & TURRELL - Antique Soul
Between the Buried and Me - The Great Misdirect
Nile - Those Whom The Gods Detest
The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
Wooden Shjips - Dos
Muse - The Resistance
Screen Vinyl Image - Interceptors
Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. II
Vetiver - Tight Knit
Tenhornedbeast - My Horns Are A Flame To Draw Down The Truth
Havohej - Kembatinan Premaster
Meti Bhuvah - II
Amorphis - Skyforger
Emily Jane White - Victorian America
Rykarda Parasol- For Blood And Wine
Der Weg Einer Freiheit - Der Weg Einer Freiheit
End - III
Thra'el - Writhing Sigils
Graveyard - One With The Dead
Masachist - Death March Fury
The Twilight Sad - Don't Forget The Night Ahead
Kreng - L’autopsie phénoménale de Dieu
Mechanical Cabaret - Damaged Goods
Breakestra - Dusk Till Dawn
Broken Note - Terminal Static
King Midas Sound - Waiting For You
Absu - Absu
Strandhogg - The Ritualistic Plague
Diocletian - Doom Cult
Wye Oak - The Knot
The Witch And The Robot - On Safari
Space Bong - The Death of Utopia
Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Yagya - Rigning
Martyn - Great Lengths
King Cannibal - Let The Night Roar
Islands - Vapours
#2: Albums I consider good overall, but were a letdown compared to past performances or what I expected. Limited to twenty-five.
Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
The Paper Chase - Someday This Could All Be Yours
Fu Manchu - Signs of Infinite Power
Doomriders - Darkness Come Alive
Justin Townes Earle - Midnight At The Movies
Firebird - Grand Union
Bowerbirds - Upper Air
Rome - Flowers From Exile
The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy
The Builders and the Butchers - Salvation Is A Deep Dark Well
Furia - Grudzień Za Grudniem
Napalm Death - Time Waits For No Slave
Hank Williams III - Damn Right, Rebel Proud
Soulsavers - Broken
Hellveto - Od Południa na Północ
Asobi Seksu - Hush
Current 93 - Aleph at Hallucinatory Mountain
Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity
Sir Richard Bishop - The Freak of Araby
Clubroot - Clubroot
Piano Magic - Ovations
YOB - The Great Cessation
Katatonia - Night Is The New Day
Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know
Intestine Baalism - Ultimate Instinct
#3: Albums that I anticipated and ended up with total shitfests that come off as either atrociously weak attempts or thorough aural abortions. Major disappointments from typically trusted people. Thanks for getting my hopes up. Limited to twenty.
Belphegor - Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn
Warbringer - Waking Into Nightmares
Hypocrisy - A Taste Of Extreme Divinity
Marduk - Wormwood
Immortal - All Shall Fall
Nargaroth - Jahreszeiten
Månegarm - Nattväsen
Suffocation - Blood Oath
Portal - Swarth
Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse
The Ruins of Beverast - Foulest Semen of a Sheltered Elite
Anaal Nathrakh - In the Constellation of the Black Widow
Ad Hominem - A Moment of Glory
Woods of Ypres - Woods IV: The Green Album
La Coka Nostra - A Brand You Can Trust
P.O.S. - Never Better
Shpongle - Ineffable Mysteries From Shpongleland
Modest Mouse - We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank
Cursive - Mama, I'm Swollen
The Dead Weather - Horehound
Note to self: 2009 isn't over yet.
