mercredi 16 Déc 2009, 17h15m
You might not have picked up on this, but this year, regardless of season, was all about summer. Yes! So instead of compiling a standard list of the best songs of 2009 we decided to focus on what best embodies that trend – from lo-fi pop anthems to dreamy chillwave gems to dubstep… Here's our pick of year round summer hits:
Best Coast
Sun Was High (So Was I) [Best Coast 7", Art Fag Recordings]
The Test Patterns
Summer Days [Blackout, Tic Tac Totally]
Dirty Projectors & David Byrne
Knotty Pine [Dark Was the Night, 4AD]
Fever Ray
When I Grow Up (D Lissvik Remix) [When I Grow up (Single), Mute]
Joy Orbison
Hyph Mngo [Hyph Mngo (Single), Hot Flush]
Camera Obscura
French Navy [My Maudlin Career, 4AD]
Digital Leather
Happily Ever After [Fresh Secrets 7", Red Lounge]
Mount Kimbie
Maybes [Maybes EP, Hot Flush]
Nite Jewel
Want You Back [Want You Back EP, Italians Do it Better]
Neon Indian
Should Have Taken Acid with You [Psychic Chasms, Lefse]
Washed Out
Hold Out [Life of Leisure EP, Mexican Summer]
Neko Case
People Got a Lotta Nerve [Middle Cyclone, Anti-]
Vivian Girls
Lake House [The World's Lousy With Ideas, Vol. 8, Almost Ready]
Lemonade
Big Weekend (Delorean remix)
Magik Markers
Psychosomatic [Balf Quarry, Drag City]
The Mayfair Set
Desert Fun [Already Warm/Desert Fun 7", Captured Tracks]
Weave!
Man He Can [Man He Can 7", Manimal Vinyl]