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Top Albums of 2009: Part I

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Johnny C:
PORTICO'S NEW ALBUM, FIRST NEIGHBOURS, IS ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT AND ONE OF THE BEST RECORDS I'VE HEARD THIS YEAR HANDS DOWN. PLEASE VISIT http://www.myspace.com/porticonation FOR ADDITIONAL DETAILS AND SLINT-Y MUSIC W/ A GIRL SINGER

DavidGrohl:
For me :
The Engineers - Three Fact Fader
Passion Pit - Manners
Ramona Falls - Intuit
Fun. - Aim & Ignite

tricia kidd:
Crippled Black Phoenix - 200 Tons of Bad Luck

As expected from a "supergroup", it's all over the place in a good way. You've got a couple traditional post-rock epics, a few Matt Elliott-esque depressing ballads, some heavy stoner riffs, and all of it is executed with amazing production values and great little touches that become more apparent with each listen.

Flaming Lips - Embryonic

Album of the year, will probably end up in the running for album of the decade. Their best work since Clouds Taste Metallic, bar none. After Mystics I honestly thought I wasn't part of their target audience at all anymore, but this thing is a monster.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t

Never has such unabashedly catchy retro-pop been so elegantly good. It's fucking scary how easy they make this shit sound. At times I've listened to this thing on repeat in excess of three times in a row on car rides.

Dan Deacon - Bromst

Not only an insane, eclectic, fun record but the live show was even better. If you have the chance, SEE THIS MAN IN ACTION.

The Horrors - Primary Colours

Largely abandoning their previous aping of Gun Club-era punk and embracing influences from Can to Spiritualized, this album is both truly derivative and truly brilliant. It's good to see a band that finally lived up to their hype.

Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

I feel like this album does for me what The Shins do for their fans. There's a definite comparison, but these guys hit higher notes and have a tighter sense of songwriting, with just enough curveballs to keep it from being pure pop.

Mono - Hymn to the Immortal Wind

It's a Mono album, I think that's all that really needs to be said.

A Place to Bury Strangers - Exploding Head

Not particularly different from their Jesus and Bloody Mary Division debut, but every bit as effective, if not moreso.

We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls

The best of the New Scottish Sound, easy. Beating The Twilight Sad at their own game, though...

The Twilight Sad - Forget the Night Ahead

...is still an amazing, cathartic record.

The xx - s/t

I love this shit.  So mellow, so natural, so beautiful, so retro, so futuristic.

Johnny C:
Real talk that Phoenix record is unassailable.

Lummer:
I've really been trying to be open here, but I just can't get that goddamn ANb record out of the top spot.

Anyway, how is it possible NOT to love a record with a song called "Druggernaut Jug Fuck" and another song with the greatest Iron Maiden pun ever?

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