To continue my annual tradition of listing my favourite albums of the year, here is my pick of top 50 albums from 2009. Click on the album names for my full album reviews:
50. Echo & The Bunnymen:The Fountain
49. Bob Dylan:Together Through Life
48. Official Secrets Act:Understanding Electricity
47. Gomez:A New Tide
46. Neko Case:Middle Cyclone
45. Bat For Lashes:Two Suns
44. White Lies:To Loose My Life
43. Starsailor:All the Plans
42. Animal Collective:Merriweather Post Pavilion
41. The Prodigy:Invaders Must Die
40. Ian Brown:My Way
39. Porcupine Tree:The Incident
38. The Flaming Lips:Embryonic
37. Madeleine Peyroux:Bare Bones
36. Mastodon:Crack The Skye
35. Florence and the Machine:Lungs
34. Doves:Kingdoms of Rust
33. Yeah Yeah Yeahs:Its Blitz
32. U2:No Line on the Horizon
31. Brett Anderson:Slow Attack
30. Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band:Between My Head and the Sky
29. Seasick Steve:Man from Another Time
28. Lily Allen:It's Not Me, It's You
27. Neil Young:Fork in the Road
26. Chickenfoot:Chickenfoot
25. The XX:The XX
24. Black Crowes:Before The Frost
23. Röyksopp:Junior
22. Muse:The Resistance
21. Antony & The Johnsons:The Crying Light
20: The Horrors:Primary Colours
19. Andrew Bird:Noble Beast
18. Editors:In This Light and Of This Evening
17. Bill Callahan:Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
16. The Kittiwakes:Lofoten Calling
15. Pearl Jam:Backspacer
14. Madness: The Liberty Of Norton Folgate
13. Arctic Monkeys: Humbug
12. The Low Anthem:Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
11. Them Crooked Vultures:Them Crooked Vultures
10. Franz Ferdinand:Tonight
9. Eels:Hombre Lobo
8. Wolfmother:Cosmic Egg
7. The Dead Weather:Horehound
6. Kasabian:West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum
5. Joe Bonamassa:The Ballad of John Henry
4. Jarvis Cocker:Further Complications
3. PJ Harvey & John Parish:A Woman A Man Walked By
2. Leonard Cohen:Live In London
1. The Decemberists:The Hazards of Love
And here’s a video countdown I compiled of my top 10 albums:
Although I do buy quite a lot of albums, there’s always stuff I miss, so please send me any glaring omissions so I can check them out. Also this year is the end of the decade as well, hence I’ve published my top albums of the year early and will be publishing a top 100 albums of the decade before the end of the year.
And finally, here’s a few links to previous years top albums:
2008, 2007, 2006
7 comments:
one of the single worst best of lists I have seen, I do enjoy your blog though. Have you got Grizzly Bear Veckatimest? and, if you enjoy some harder music Converge's new album Axe to Fall is a good one.
epwal3, thanks for the suggestions, I haven't got those, so I'll check them out.
Cheers
Crispian
Thanks for the Grizzly Bear "Veckatimest" recommendation. I'm Listening now, and I think that it would have been on my list if I'd known about it earlier
what's's's's's's's' with the greengrocer's's''s's's's catapstrophe?
Just found your skepticism blog when reading the excellent jack of kent blog. Enjoying it so far so thought I'd take a look at your music.
Great to see Mastodon in there. They're touring the UK in February.
Anyway some 2009 albums you might want to check out:
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years (can't go wrong with the Furries)
Sunn O))) - Monoliths and Dimensions (absolutely frightening record)
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca (not even going to attempt to describe it)
Julian Casablancas - Phrazes For The Young (if you like the strokes then you can't go wrong)
Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (listening right now and it's ace)
The Felice Brothers - Yonder Is The Clock
The Duke & The King - Nothing Gold Can Stay
(if you like folky, americana type such as Low Anthemn then these are a must)
Glaring omission in possibly best album of year: Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
Lastly: We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls (excellent young Scottish band)
Sorry to ramble but all are worth listening to several times
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