Roughtrade listet 60 Alben des Jahres:
„Top 10 albums of 2009“
THE XX – XX
THE LOW ANTHEM – Oh My God, Charlie Darwin
THE HORRORS – Primary Colours
FEVER RAY – Fever Ray
THE PAINS OF BEING PURE AT HEART – The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart
GRIZZLY BEAR – Veckatimest
THE LEISURE SOCIETY – The Sleeper AND The Product Of The Ego Drain
FUCK BUTTONS – Tarot Sport
FOREST FIRE – Survival
THE VERY BEST – Warm Heart Of Africa
11. animal collective – merriweather post pavillion
12. yeah yeah yeahs – it’s blitz!
13. atlas sound – logos
14. phoenix – wolfgang amadeus phoenix
15. local natives – gorilla manor
16. white denim – fits
17. jonsi and alex – riceboy sleeps
18. terry lynn – kingstonlogic 2.0
19. the boy least likely to – the law of the playground
20. emmy the great – first love
21. camera obscura – my maudlin career
22. mountain goats – the life of the world to come
23. wild beasts – 2 dancers
24. portico quartet – isla
25. major lazer – guns don’t kill people… lazers do
26. memory tapes – seek magic
27. florence and the machine – lungs
28. girls – album
29. alela diane – to be still
30. andrew bird – noble beast
31. cymbals eat guitars – why there are mountains
32. taken by trees – east of eden
33. mos def – the ecstatic
34. shitty limits – beware the limits
35. dead mans bones – dead man’s bones
36. fanfarlo – reservoir
37. lindstrom and christabelle – real life is no cool
38. kid congo and the pink monkey birds – dracula boots
39. big pink – a brief history of love
40. mumford and sons – sigh no more
41. a place to bury strangers – exploding head
42. young republic – balletesque
43. richard hawley – truelove’s gutter
44. cate le bon – me oh my
45. jarvis – further complications
46. mummers – tale to tell
47. the smith westerns – the smith westerns
48. ganglians – monster head room
49. irrepressibles – from the circus…..to the sea
50. telepathe – dance mother
51. decemberists – the hazards of love
52. dirty projectors – bitte orca
53. yo la tengo – popular songs
54. vivian girls – everything goes wrong
55. patrick watson – wooden arms
56. she keeps bees – nests
57. soulsavers – broken
58. let’s wrestle – In the court of the wrestling lets
59. japandroids – post nothing
60. bill callahan – sometimes I wish we were an angel
Interessanter finde ich die “Staff Picks“ mit feinen Kurzanmerkungen. Wecken Neugier bei so manchem Album, das man vielleicht noch nicht kennt.
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