Top Ten of 2009

10 Perhaps the best flowing album on the list. Flawless production. Two Dancers never drifts off its dream-like tone. Normally I'd choose a couple of stand out tracks but this album is pretty much the whole package, it should be listened to in its entirety.



9 Mew were back this year with another top class album, no one does it like them. Try and pigeon hole them, I dare ya.



8 ..Because Pop music is popular.



7 Didn't think they could top their first, they did.



6 Maybe not the best album on the list, but perhaps the most infectious. Playing God is the best pop song I've heard all year.





5 More people need to take notice of these guys, potential isn't a big enough word.



4 These chaps will be huge one day.



3 Thought this was going to be my favorite album of the year, some of the best hooks you will hear appear on this record, give it the chance it deserves.



2 Don't understand why critics ignored this album, It's phenomenal.



1 They make it look so easy.




Honorable mentions:



plus a lot more..

Did he swallow him whole?

New Dirty Projectors, hells yeah (via stereogum)

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"What I love about Dirty Projectors is the fact that the melodies, arrangements and rhythms can be difficult to hear on first listen, but i've always found it very curious, leading me to want to hear a song over and over again until I expect it all, and it is both musically refreshing and rewarding."

nailed it.

Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer

Lil Wayne new material, yes please. New Ep out this week, yes please.

The new tracks can be found here

Really feelin Swag Surfin.

re-Introducing.

Top 25 songs of 2009 (so far)

In order (one being the best)

25 All The Kings Men - Wild Beasts

24 It's Thunder and It's Lightning - We Were Promised Jetpacks

23 Sea Within a Sea - The Horrors

22 Two Weeks - Grizzly Bear

21 Help I'm Alive - Metric

20 Islands - Xx

19 The Royal We - Silversun pickups

18 Foreign Thoughts - There Will Be Fireworks

17 The Vague Archive - Grammatics

16 Two - The Antlers

15 With Lights Out - Red Light Company

14 Empire State of Mind - Jay-Z

13 Only If You Run - Julian Plenti

12 Now We Can See - The Thermals

11 Playing God - Paramore

10 Blood Bank - Bon Iver

9 Crying Lightening - Arctic Monkeys

8 Lisztomania / 1901 - Phoenix

7 Wet Hair - Japandroids

6 My Girls - Animal Collective

5 Sweet Disposition - The Temper Trap

4 The Sea Is a Good Place To Think of the Fututre - Los Campesinos!

3 Horchata - Vampire Weekend



2 Stillness is the Move - Dirty Projectors



1 Caribbean War Syndrome - Twin Atlantic

Oh yeah! before I forget.

Watch Fanboys.

Set the white balance m%ther f%cker.

Hey there invisible readers, how you all doing? Smashing, I love you guys...on with the post.

Biffy, what have thou done?



not too sure? me either. I think this song could be better without some of the embarrasing strings n brass. Captain = could do better but could be epic live.