Top 20 Albums of 2009 (Because 10 is too hard)
Enjoy!
(just in case you have no clue what I am talking about find my top albums from 2000 – 2005, my intro will explain how “nerdy” this process is)
1. The Pains of Being Young at Heart: The Pains of Being Young at Heart
2. The XX: XX
3. Lookbook: Wild at Heart
4. …and You Will Know us by the Trail of the Dead: Century Self
5. Girls: Album
6. Cold Cave: Love Comes Close
7. Matt and Kim: Grand
8. The Little Girls: Concepts
9. A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head
10. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
11. Sonic Youth: The Eternal (that’s right, they are easy to pass up but they still have it!)
12. Bear in Heaven: Beast Rest Forth Mouth
13. Throw Me the Statue: Creaturesque
14. Say Hi: Oohs & Aahs (I am a sucker for the “hook”)
15. The Wooden Birds: Magnolia
16. The Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want
17. Yo La Tengo: Popular Songs
18. Cymbals Eat Guitars: Why There Are Mountains (Bring me back to the beginning of it all)
19. Fanfarlo: Resevoir (Sound like many but sound good)
20. Julian Plenti: Julian Plenti … Is Skyscraper (Who cares what everyone else says!?!?)
Others to listen to, not that they were next in line but wanted to pint them out. Some great songs on these albums and some bands that deserve attention:
Minor Kingdom: My Back Will Bend (any folk music fans?); Jack Penate: Everything is New (Pure Pop from the other side of the Atlantic); Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros (2 of the top 10 songs of the year off one album?); Washed Out: Life of Leisure – EP (waiting for the full length); The Mumlers (from my neck of the woods and a lot of fun)
Thanks for reading.