The Felice BrothersMy personal list of the albums of 2009. Impossible for me to rank, but I can probably split them into three groups: those I have been coming back to again and again, others which stand out almost as equals but are just shaded out, and then those which have caught my attention over the year but have dropped off my radar (or just need a bit more attention from me)...
Pick Of The Bunch
Balmorhea, All Is Wild, All Is Silent
Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Brakes, Touchdown
DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues
Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport
Speck Mountain, Some Sweet Relief
The Antlers, Hospice
The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The xx, xx
We Were Promised Jetpacks, These Four Walls
Close Seconds
Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs, How to Get to Heaven from Scotland
And So I Watch You From Afar, And So I Watch You From Afar
Blakroc, Blakroc
Blueneck, The Fallen Host
Cymbals Eat Guitars, Why There are Mountains
Dakota Suite, The End of Trying
Dinosaur Jr., Farm
Dizzee Rascal, Tongue N' Cheek
Doom, Born Like This
El Michels Affair, Enter the 37th Chamber
En plein air, L'alba irradia l'inutile parola
Felix, You Are The One I Pick
From Monument to Masses, On Little Known Frequencies
Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels
Hauschka, Snowflakes & Carwrecks
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen, Inspiration Information Vol. 4
Kings of Convenience, Declaration of Independence
Let's Wrestle, In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
Lightning Dust, Infinite Light
Like Bells, Like Bells
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, II
Lord Cut-Glass, Lord Cut-Glass
Memory Tapes, Seek Magic
Modest Mouse, No One's First, And You're Next
Mono, Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Ola Podrida, Belly of the Lion
Port O'Brien, Threadbare
Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
Russian Circles, Geneva
Super Furry Animals, Dark Days / Light Years
Taken By Tree, East Of Eden
Telefon Tel Aviv, Immolate Yourself
The Black Heart Procession, Six
The Felice Brothers, Yonder is the Clock
The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
The Longcut, Open Hearts
The Maccabees, Wall Of Arms
The Mercury Program, Chez Viking
The Phantom Band, Checkmate Savage
The Phenomenal Handclap Band, The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Thermals, Now We Can See
The Twilight Sad, Forget The Night Ahead
Tiny Vipers, Life on Earth
Volcano Choir, Unmap
We Fell to Earth, We Fell to Earth
Why?, Eskimo Snow
Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
Honourable Mentions
A Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding Head
Alchemist, Chemical Warfare
Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
Apse, Climb Up
Bear in Heaven, Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Caspian, Tertia
Dan Deacon, Bromst
Danny Norbury, Light In August
Desolation Wilderness, New Universe
Doves, Kingdom Of Rust
Eels, Hombre Loco
El Perro del Mar, Love Is Not Pop
Engineers, Three Fact Fader
French Teen Idol, El Siete Es La Luz
Fruit Bats, The Ruminant Band
Gun Outfit, Dim Light
Handsome Furs, Face Control
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Through The Devil Softly
Idlewild, Post Electric Blues
Imaad Wasif, The Voidist
Joker's Daughter, The Last Laugh
King Midas Sound, Waiting For You
Lights, Rites
Nils Frahm, The Bells
Noah & The Whale, The First Days of Spring
People Under the Stairs, Carried Away
Rameses III, I Could Not Love You More
Saxon Shore, It Doesn't Matter
Sleepy Sun, Embrace
Sonic Youth, The Eternal
Soulsavers, Broken
The Big Pink, A Brief History of Love
The Boy Least Likely To, The Law of the Playground
The Dead Weather, Horehound
The Field, Yesterday and Today
The Gentleman Losers, Dustland
The Low Frequency in Stereo, Futuro
The Mountain Goats, the Life of the World to Come
The Wooden Birds, Magnolia
Pick Of The Bunch
Balmorhea, All Is Wild, All Is Silent
Bill Callahan, Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
Brakes, Touchdown
DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues
Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport
Speck Mountain, Some Sweet Relief
The Antlers, Hospice
The Decemberists, The Hazards of Love
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
The xx, xx
We Were Promised Jetpacks, These Four Walls
Close Seconds
Aidan Moffat & The Best-Ofs, How to Get to Heaven from Scotland
And So I Watch You From Afar, And So I Watch You From Afar
Blakroc, Blakroc
Blueneck, The Fallen Host
Cymbals Eat Guitars, Why There are Mountains
Dakota Suite, The End of Trying
Dinosaur Jr., Farm
Dizzee Rascal, Tongue N' Cheek
Doom, Born Like This
El Michels Affair, Enter the 37th Chamber
En plein air, L'alba irradia l'inutile parola
Felix, You Are The One I Pick
From Monument to Masses, On Little Known Frequencies
Great Lake Swimmers, Lost Channels
Hauschka, Snowflakes & Carwrecks
Jimi Tenor & Tony Allen, Inspiration Information Vol. 4
Kings of Convenience, Declaration of Independence
Let's Wrestle, In The Court Of The Wrestling Let's
Lightning Dust, Infinite Light
Like Bells, Like Bells
Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, II
Lord Cut-Glass, Lord Cut-Glass
Memory Tapes, Seek Magic
Modest Mouse, No One's First, And You're Next
Mono, Hymn To The Immortal Wind
Ola Podrida, Belly of the Lion
Port O'Brien, Threadbare
Richard Hawley, Truelove's Gutter
Russian Circles, Geneva
Super Furry Animals, Dark Days / Light Years
Taken By Tree, East Of Eden
Telefon Tel Aviv, Immolate Yourself
The Black Heart Procession, Six
The Felice Brothers, Yonder is the Clock
The Flaming Lips, Embryonic
The Longcut, Open Hearts
The Maccabees, Wall Of Arms
The Mercury Program, Chez Viking
The Phantom Band, Checkmate Savage
The Phenomenal Handclap Band, The Phenomenal Handclap Band
The Thermals, Now We Can See
The Twilight Sad, Forget The Night Ahead
Tiny Vipers, Life on Earth
Volcano Choir, Unmap
We Fell to Earth, We Fell to Earth
Why?, Eskimo Snow
Wilco, Wilco (The Album)
Yo La Tengo, Popular Songs
Honourable Mentions
A Place to Bury Strangers, Exploding Head
Alchemist, Chemical Warfare
Andrew Bird, Noble Beast
Apse, Climb Up
Bear in Heaven, Beast Rest Forth Mouth
Caspian, Tertia
Dan Deacon, Bromst
Danny Norbury, Light In August
Desolation Wilderness, New Universe
Doves, Kingdom Of Rust
Eels, Hombre Loco
El Perro del Mar, Love Is Not Pop
Engineers, Three Fact Fader
French Teen Idol, El Siete Es La Luz
Fruit Bats, The Ruminant Band
Gun Outfit, Dim Light
Handsome Furs, Face Control
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions, Through The Devil Softly
Idlewild, Post Electric Blues
Imaad Wasif, The Voidist
Joker's Daughter, The Last Laugh
King Midas Sound, Waiting For You
Lights, Rites
Nils Frahm, The Bells
Noah & The Whale, The First Days of Spring
People Under the Stairs, Carried Away
Rameses III, I Could Not Love You More
Saxon Shore, It Doesn't Matter
Sleepy Sun, Embrace
Sonic Youth, The Eternal
Soulsavers, Broken
The Big Pink, A Brief History of Love
The Boy Least Likely To, The Law of the Playground
The Dead Weather, Horehound
The Field, Yesterday and Today
The Gentleman Losers, Dustland
The Low Frequency in Stereo, Futuro
The Mountain Goats, the Life of the World to Come
The Wooden Birds, Magnolia
