Albums of 2009
Submitted by Menindrag on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 04:02
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- The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
- All I expected it to be and more. Majestic, joyful, heart clenching, spiritual, mind bending. The Lips have created something special here, matching and surpassing any previous work.
- Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
- To electronic music as Orbital's Brown Album was in 1993, and Villalobos' Alcachofa was in 2003. Absolutely fantastic.
- Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
- Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
- Morphine - At Your Service
- Ducktails - Landscapes
- Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2
- Shackleton - Three EPs
- jj - jj n° 2
- Rock Plaza Central - ...At The Moment Of Our Most Needing Or If Only They Could Turn Around, They Would Know They Weren't Alone
- Alio Die & Aglaia - Private History of the Clouds
- Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt. II
- Jesse Somfay - A Catch In The Voice
- Elegi - Varde
- Dälek - Gutter Tactics
- Mono - Hymn To The Immortal Wind
- Volcano Choir - Unmap
- Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra - Take Off!
- Speech Debelle - Speech Therapy
- Riceboy Sleeps - Riceboy Sleeps
- Brock Van Wey - White Clouds Drift On And On
- The first CD is an incredible exploration of ambient sounds and shoegaze hyperbole, but the Intrusion Dub mix on the second CD just goes on a bit too long...
- Bruce Peninsula - A Mountain Is A Mouth
- Blackout Beach - Skin of Evil
- Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
- Girls - Album
- The Antlers - Hospice
- Notable Mentions
- ...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead - The Century Of Self
- Akron Family - Set'Em Wild, Set'Em Free
- Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
- Atlas Sound - Logos
- Bat For Lashes - Two Suns
- Bill Callahan - I Wish We Were An Eagle
- Bon Iver - Blood Bank EP
- Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career (Only for 'James'. Alas, i'm a fool for women who serenade me.)
- Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains
- Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
- DJ Sprinkles - Midtown 120 Blues
- DOOM - Born Like This
- Faust - C'est Com... Com... Compliqué
- Fever Ray - Fever Ray
- HEALTH - Get Color
- The Horrors - Primary Colours
- Isis - Wavering Radient
- Keijo - Hetki
- maudlin of the Well - Part the Second
- Omar-S - Fabric 45
- Pom Pom - CD 001
- Soap&Skin - Lovetune For Vacuum
- Sunn 0))) - Monoliths & Dimensions Much less impressive after a few listens
- Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
- Thom Yorke - Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses/The Hollow Earth 'Feeling Pulled Apart' is very very good. Hollow Earth is dismissable.
- William Basinski - 92982
- Wilco - Wilco (The Album)
- The XX - XX
- Dismissable
- Andrew Bird - Noble Beast
- Animal Collective - Animal Crack Box
- Carboniferous - Zu
- Ben Klock - One
- Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
- Black Meteroric Star - Black Meteroric Star
- Blue Roses - Blue Roses
- Bob Dylan - Together Through Life
- The Church - Untitled #23
- Dan Deacon - Bromst
- Field - Yesterday & Today
- Japandroids - Post-Nothing
- La Roux - La Roux
- Louderbach - Autumn
- Martyn - Great Lengths
- The Mars Volta - Octahedron
- Megafaun - Gather, Form & Fly
- The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come
- Passion Pit - Manners
- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
- Peaking Lights - Imaginary Falcons
- snd - Atavism
- St. Vincent - Actor
- Subset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
- Sweet Billy Pilgrim - Twice Born Men
- Woods - Songs of Shame
- YACHT - See Mystery Lights
- Owned, But Not Yet listened
- Dredg - The Pariah, The Parrot, The Delusion
- Jon Hassell - Last Night the Moon Came Dropping Its Clothes in the Street
- Mos Def - The Ecstatic
- Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
- Anticipated Albums
- Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy
- Devendra Banhart - What Will We Be
- New Joanna Newsom
- The Orb - Baghdad Batteries
- No Age EP
- OOIOO - Armonico Hewa
- Pelican - What We All Come to Need
Author Comments:
2009 Releases only. Any recomendations are more than welcome.
Cloned From:
Seeing them live ftw =]
=D
We must make notes and compare.
Indeed we should, especially as different concerts could mean different support acts (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Panda Bear doing solo). =)
A Panda Bear solo would make a promising night even more tantalising. If Bros is played I will kiss every man in the room.
I'll be seeing them too (being neptune's brother). Fingers crossed that Bros will be played. If it is they could well be the best artist I've seen live. Currently its My Bloody Valentine. 12+ min version of I Only Said = heaven. My cousin described it as sounding like a plane was taking off :) Clapton was good live too. Who would you say is the best person you've seen live currently?
12 mintues I Only Said? Crazy, My Bloody Valentine is already on my must-fucking-see-at-all-costs list. I just need to bother trying to buy tickets.
And who's the best I've seen live? Haven't really seen many big names live (lack of funds) but it would properly be The Rolling Stones. Mick Jagger, as much as he fucking iritates me, he is a damn good front man.
Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol. 2
Elegi - Varde
These are both great ambient albums for 2009, and Varde is probably 7.5. Tim Hecker's new album is good too...
Cheers. I'm currently working my way through a few 2009 releases. Andrew Bird, Mono, Zu. I'll have a look at them. And i was looking to download, um I mean legally purchase from a legal shop Tim Hecker's album. Couldn't find it though
Blood Bank was 2008...Fun album though.
It was released in 2009, and that's what I'm doing this list by.
You're right sorry about that I just assumed it was 2008 because that's what Scaruffi has it labeled as on their artist page.
Aha! Even Scaruffi is fallible!
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (falls into the hot lava)
he explicitly lists them by year recorded, not year released.
so he is in fact infallible. It's very queer that flaming hot rivers of lava are nearby when traumatic news is being transmitted. Fate is a cruel force indeed.
I'm a little sad to see the way-better-than-I-anticipated Bromst among your dismissables, but more than a little pleased to see Bird's album. I'm not sure I understand at all the love that man receives.
Have you heard the new Akron/Family yet? It's been the only album to really grab me so far this year.
I found Bromst really quite a struggle. I thought that Dan Deacon tried way to hard to get people dancing, moshing & generally frollicing; it had no subtleness. I know that was the point of the album, but I didn't even like the execution. It rarely got me even tapping my little piggys. Still, I can understand why people do like this album and in the right mood, heck I may even be able to dance to it.
I agree on Andrew Bird. He's one of the more overrated of the musicians currently making this "quirky folk" (Qurlk I call it). And I haven't heard the new Akron/Family. It's on my Need-To-Listen list so I'll properly get it sometime soon. Have you any other recomendations you think I may like?
You're criticism makes a lot of sense, especially when I consider that Bromst, and perhaps Deacon's music in general, truly takes on new dimensions in a live setting. I've seen him perform this material and actually get what you say he's reaching for, so maybe that colors my view.
I haven't heard to many 2009 albums, but I'm a big fan of the new Gui Boratto, as well as the new Junior Boys, Iran's Dissolver, and Don't Stop, the Annie album that leaked last year - I assume it's getting a 2009 release.
But the new Akron/Family is just really head and shoulders above anything else I've heard.
Dammit! If only I had made some noise with a mate on the drums with some really tedious lyrics and recorded it on a shitty cassete recorder, I could of had an 8.1 from Pitchfork. Heck, I may just record myself shitting with my dog barking outside and I may just about, get a 7...
download Together Through Life Bob Dylan in quality mp3 320 kbps
I've got it on CD, thanks.