mercredi 30 Déc 2009, 3h26m
Pretty good year. Maybe not as good as everyone else seem to believe, but solid. Here we go:
50. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor
49. Ian Brown - My Way
48. Sin Fang Bous - Clangour
47. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic
46. Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue
45. Neko Case - Middle Cyclone
44. Washed Out - High Times
43. CunninLynguists - Strange Journey Volume One
42. The Raveonettes - In and Out of Control
41. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
40. Gui Boratto - Take My Breath Away
39. Charlotte Gainsbourg - IRM
38. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
37. Japandroids - Post-Nothing
36. Built to Spill - There Is No Enemy
35. Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today I’m Sorry They Washed Away No More Stories the World Is Grey I’m Tired Let’s Wash Away
34. Washed Out - Life of Leisure
33. Brand New - Daisy
32. Sunset Rubdown - Dragonslayer
31. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport
30. The Decemberists - The Hazards of Love
29. Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle
28. Soap&Skin - Lovetune for Vacuum
27. jj - jj n° 2
26. Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
25. Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country
24. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - The Pains of Being Pure at Heart
23. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx... Pt II
22. Clues - Clues
21. Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
20. The Horrors - Primary Colours
19. The xx - XX
18. Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
17. Franz Ferdinand - Tonight: Franz Ferdinand
16. Sonic Youth - The Eternal
15. Clark - Totems Flare
14. Future of the Left - Travels With Myself and Another
13. Bat for Lashes - Two Suns
12. A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head
11. Florence and The Machine - Lungs
10. Mos Def - The Ecstatic
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/9.jpg
I'm not so much into hip hop (improved through the last year, though), but I was addicted to The Ecstatic for quite a long time. Life in Marvelous Times is an absolute highlight for me.
9. The Antlers - Hospice
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/10.jpg
Every time I want to listen to The Antlers I think to myself: ok, I'm not gonna cry, it's all natural, these things just HAPPEN. Too bad it doesn't work at all.
8. Mount Eerie - Wind's Poem
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/8.jpg
Maybe such a high position is a bit over the top, but it's definitely a grower. Rather hard to listen to, but worth your attention. Phil's voice in Between Two Mysteries <3 (and Twin Peaks references!)
7. The Field - Yesterday and Today
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/7.jpg
You should've seen me listening to Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime for the first time. Album is sheer magic.
6. Animal Collective - Fall Be Kind
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/6.jpg
I'm sick from too much reading
Jealous of Noah's dreaming
Can't help my brain from thinking
Even if it was the only thing at this ep, it would be ridiculously high on my list anyway. But there's actually a lot more!
5. Atlas Sound - Logos
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/5.jpg
I was a bit dissapointed with Let the Blind Lead… (anyway, the title was nice and I still think I should give that album another try, the problem is I keep forgetting about this). Logos is an excellent set of dreamy songs. Are you saying it's a background music? Oh well, come on… Or maybe I'm just stupid and close minded ignorant, I guees I don't care.
Otherwise, it features Letitia!
4. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/4.jpg
Don't expect me to be objective. People, it's Phoenix, probably my favourite French band, my fair-haired boys! And they did extremelly well on WAP. They're fabulous, it's official.
And isn't this fanvid brilliant? Better than 90% of official music videos I've ever seen.
3. The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/3.jpg
I'm not sure I fully get it. Damn good album though.
2. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/2.jpg
Four extremelly talented musicians together and that's what we've got: beautiful, lacking low points record. Equivalent of last year's Fleet Foxes, but I tend to believe Veckatimest is better.
1. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p237/panitrener/aoty2009/1.jpg
It's amazing how this album is so revolutionary without actually being revolutionary.
/Btw, love my friends' reaction to this cover (it's MOVING!!!11! o_____O, something like that)/
Well, that's it. Sorry for my lame English. Hopefully 2010 carries an awful lot of terribly good music.
Cheers and have a great New Year's Eve!