Thursday, December 31, 2009

My Top Albums of 2009

Continuing the pattern of a shorter list each year (as I get increasingly out of touch with the contemporary hit parade), here are my top albums of 2009. Feel free to let me know what I should have been listing to / liking using the comments link below.

Be Set Free
Langhorne Slim

Standout tracks: Say Yes, I Love You Goodbye
Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!
Ben Folds & Various Artists

Standout tracks: Magic, Jesusland
Far
Regina Spektor

Standout tracks: The Calculation, Folding Chair
Hombre Lobo
Eels

Standout tracks: Beginner's Luck, My Timing Is Off
The Duckworth Lewis Method
The Duckworth Lewis Method

Standout tracks: Jiggery Pokery, The Age of Revolution
The Resistance
Muse

Standout tracks: United States of Eurasia (+Collateral Damage)

Related posts:
Best Albums of 2008
My Top 20 Albums of 2007
My Top 25 Albums of 2006
My Top 25 Albums of 2005

2 comments:

etcook said...

Hi Dan,

some great ones here, but I strongly recommend that you listen to these records from 2009:

In no particular order:

• Akron/Family - Set 'Em Wild, Set 'Em Free:
http://bit.ly/setemwild
• The xx - xx:
http://bit.ly/xxthexx
• Headlights - Wildlife:
http://bit.ly/headlightswildlife
• Soulsavers - Broken:
http://bit.ly/soulsavers
• Mos Def - The Ecstatic:
http://bit.ly/theecstatic
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest:
http://bit.ly/Veckatimest
• Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care:
http://bit.ly/begonedullcare
• The Cave Singers - Welcome Joy:
http://bit.ly/welcomejoy
• Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca:
http://bit.ly/dpbitteorca
• Sparklehorse & Dangermouse - Dark Night Of The Soul:
http://dnots.com
• Bat For Lashes - Two Suns:
http://bit.ly/twosuns

http://bit.ly/etcooktoplp09

Dan Taylor said...

Thanks Ed!
D