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SARAHSPY'S TOTALLY SUBJECTIVE TOP 25 ALBUMS OF 2009
#1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (amz|ins|mysp)
#2. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (amz|ins|mysp)
#3. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (amz|ins|mysp)
#4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (amz|ins|mysp)
#5. White Denim - Fits (amz|ins|mysp)#6. Freelance Whales - Weathervanes (itunes|mysp)
#7. The Antlers - Hospice (amz|ins|mysp)
#8. Sharon van Etten - Because I Was In Love (amz|ins|mysp)
#9. Girls - Album (amz|ins|mysp)
#10. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic (amz|ins|mysp)#11. Florence and the Machine - Lungs (amz|ins|mysp)
#12. Handsome Furs - Face Control (amz|ins|mysp)
#13. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (amz|ins|mysp)
#14. White Rabbits - It’s Frightening (amz|ins|mysp)
#15. The Xx - XX (amz|ins|mysp)#16. Foreign Born - Person to Person (amz|ins|mysp)
#17. Ramona Falls - Intuit (amz|ins|mysp)
#18. St Vincent - Actor (amz|ins|mysp)
#19. Memory Tapes - Seek Magic (amz|ins|mysp)
#20. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (amz|ins|mysp)#21. J. Tillman - Vacilando Territory Blues (amz|ins|mysp)
#22. Nurses - Apple’s Acre (amz|ins|mysp)
#23. The Dead Weather - Horehound (amz|ins|web)
#24. Fuck Buttons - Tarot Sport (amz|ins|mysp)
#25. Woods - Songs of Shame (amz|ins|mysp)
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Top 50 Albums of 2009 (40-31)
31. Pomegranates /// Everybody, Come Outside!
Singular yet unassuming, Everybody, Come Outside! is in danger of being heard by far too few people, though its boy-girl bounce and rib-tickling jangle feel like elements that indie kids of all stripes can agree upon. (Listen to track “This Land Used To Be My Land, But Now I Hate This Land” above.)
32. Pictureplane /// Dark Rift
It’s a safe bet that no one else was mangling and distorting samples like this—and even if they were, there’s no way it could’ve resulted in a post-rave, strobe-lit dance album half this horny and dehydrated.
33. The Sight Below /// Murmur EP
An ambient auteur enamored with Pygmalion-era Slowdive adds flickers of muscle and friction to his minimal palette and gets a divine remix treatment from Eluvium.
34. The Antlers /// Hospice
Originally an elegy for bandleader Peter Silberman’s “planned disappearance,” Hospice is no less harrowing as a mega-narrative about losing a loved one to cancer. Having learned a thing or two from the quiet/LOUD/quiet school of millenial post-rockers, The Antlers outfit mental extremes with aural ones and never lose an ounce of their elusive beauty in the process.
35. Antony & The Johnsons /// The Crying Light
I swear you could kill the delicate quiver of his voice by listening too hard—ideally you’d be sprawled in an East Village apartment in 1976 after shooting up, with the lacelike arabesques of this lone cello or that flute drifting in and out of earshot.
36. Girls /// Girls
Sweaty and a complete mess and decidedly not for widespread consumption, but infectiously indifferent to the difficulties of appropriating shaggy surf or prescription-drugged drone or any lo-fi trick that’s been done to death already.
37. Moderat /// Moderat
The alliance of Modeskeletor and Apparat finally bears fruit in the form of some well-sequenced misty moody whirring Berlin house glitch adjective overload clusterfuck dub doozies.
38. Health /// Get Color
Health made us wait for the grower we knew they had in them: harsh industrial noise and esoteric amp effects used to raise snake-charmed threads of flame from what was once merely scorched earth and a libidinous metallic throb.
39. Jay Reatard /// Watch Me Fall
Walk into this maw of serrated teeth and just try to resist the blood-soaked frenzy of Kiwi-indebted virtuoso punk thereby unleashed.
40. Bat For Lashes /// Two Suns
All Kate Bush aside, this was a striking bid to extract emotional earnestness from the cold core of outside-the-consensus pop that could just as easily have been a hollow pose. Lucky us.
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&rea’s Best Albums/Releases of 2009
I wasn’t going to do a ‘Best of’ list this year, but what the heck—maybe you’ll find something on here that you may have overlooked this past year. This made me realize that I posted a butt load of music this year. Stay tuned…a ‘Best Songs of 2009’ list is coming when I’m feeling less lazy!
20. DUM DUM GIRLS / Self-Titled
» Listen To: Ship of Love19. PAPERCUTS / You Can Have What You Want
» Listen To: Future Primitive18. NEON INDIAN / Psychic Chasms
» Listen To: Deadbeat Summer17. DEATH AND VANILLA / Self-Titled
» Listen To: Ghosts In The Machine16. EAT SKULL / Wild and Inside
» Listen To: Stick to the Formula15. JAPANDROIDS / Post-Nothing
» Listen To: Wet Hair14. MOUNT EERIE / Wind’s Poem
» Listen To: Between Two Mysteries13. NIGHT CONTROL / Death Control
» Listen To: Star 13112. THE XX / XX
» Listen To: Basic Space11. ANCIENT CRUX / Interracial Coupling
» Listen To: In Teen Dreams10. VIVIAN GIRLS / Everything Goes Wrong
» Listen To: The End9. ATLAS SOUND / Logos
» Listen To: My Halo8. BIBIO / Ambivalence Avenue
» Listen To: Lovers’ Carvings7. LE LOUP / Family
» Listen To: A Celebration6. CHRISTMAS ISLAND / Blackout Summer
» Listen To: Bed Island5. NODZZZ / Self-Titled
» Listen To: Is She There4. FUNGI GIRLS / Seafaring Pyramids
» Listen To: Dystopic Vision3. HERE WE GO MAGIC / Self-Titled
» Listen To: Ahab2. REAL ESTATE / Self-Titled
» Listen To: Fake Blues1. SO COW / Self-Titled
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So Cow - “Casablanca”
Because I can’t describe it any better, here’s what Fluxblog has to say about this awesome jam:
“The guitar part at the start of “Casablanca” has a wonderful force and velocity, but it is most compelling in the way that it seems to push against a tide suggested by the drumming. It’s a great way to open an album — confidently moving through pressure, asserting itself without seeming violent or angry. Once the song moves beyond that point, it goes to a lovely, tuneful place before ending with a sound like gears grinding to a halt, shooting sparks and finally going up in flames.”












