Meine Top Ten des Jahres
1. Antony and the Johnsons. I Am A Bird Now
2. Maximo Park. A Certain Trigger
3. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
4. M. Ward. Transistor Radio
5. The Futureheads. The Futureheads
6. The New Pornographers. Twin Cinema
7. Broken Social Scene. Broken Social Scene
8. Bloc Party. Silent Alarm
9. Damien Dempsey. Shots
10. Art Brut. Bang Bang Rock & Roll
11. Paul Duncan. Be Carefull What You Call Home
12. Amos Lee. Amos Lee
13. Okkervil River. Black Sheep Boy
14. SF Jazz Collective. SF Jazz Collective
15. John Legend. Get Lifted
16. Coldplay. X&Y
17. Bright Eyes. I’m wide awake it’s morning
18. Charlie Haden. Not In Our Name
19. Josh Rouse. Nashville
20. Phosphorecent. Aw Come Aw Wry
21. James Blunt. Back to Bedlam
22. Bright Eyes. Digital ash in a digital urn
Reissues und ähnliches außer Konkurrenz:
Thelonious Monk Quartet with John Coltrane. At Carnegie Hall
Dizzy Gillespie & Charlie Parker. Town Hall, New York City, June 22, 1945
Wilco. Kicking Television
Jens Lekman. Oh you’e so silent Jens
Charlie Poole. You ain’t talking to me
John Coltrane. One Down, One Up – Live at the Half Note
Bob Dylan. No direction home – Bootleg Series Vol. VII
Aesop Rock. Fast Cars Danger Fire And Knives
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