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Top Albums of 2009: Part I
Lummer:
--- Quote from: Zombiedude on 08 Jan 2010, 00:12 ---The Ichthyologist is fantastic
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I need to buy that album, pretty dang soon. As well as a squillion others, but yeah.
BeoPuppy:
I'm going to mention Goi, Rode, Goi by Arkona. Because it's wonderful and if there is a reason to mention nice folk metal it should be mentioned. So, Goi, Rode, Goi is a good album.
It also has some dutch lyrics on there which, coming unexpectedly on a russian language album, may have been the biggest WTF!-Did-I-Just-Hear-That-Correctly?-moment of 2009 for me.
Daft pun:
Less words, more lists.
1. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
The one album that kept it's shine all year long. The perfect soundtrack to the past summer and brilliantly cheerful during these cold winter days.
2. Moderat - Moderat
The perfect blend of Apparat's dreamy synths and Modeselektor's beats. Could've been number one if it wasn't for the awful vocals on track 7. Oh well. Absolutely astonishing live btw.
3. Nosaj Thing - Drift
What do you even call this? Atmospheric hip-hop? IDM? Actually decent dubstep? Amazing.
4. Worriedaboutsatan - Arrivals
Some of the most beautiful ambient techno in years.
5. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - s/t
Fuzzy pop at it's best. Amazingly catchy.
6. Health - Get color
Clearly influenced by the tracks on Disco. Still noisy but melodious when they want it to be.
7. The Raveonettes - In and out of control
I fell in love with their first album late this summer, yet their other LP's lack a certain something. Not this one though. A fine return to form.
8. Fever Ray - Fever Ray
One of the best live performances I saw this year. This would've been higher up a few months ago.
9. Fuck Buttons - Tarot sport
An acid house take on their debut. Very good if not quite spectacular.
10. Yo La Tengo - Popular songs
More of the same yes, but that's good enough for me. Although the last half is superfluous.
tricia kidd:
--- Quote from: AanAllein on 07 Jan 2010, 22:46 ---I guess you're a bit slow then? I was obviously talking about the Editors. You know, the band that put out an eighties album this year.
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you said "80s new wave".
"80s new wave" = talking heads, the cars, the b-52s, yaz, flock of seagulls, and a bunch of other things that this last editors album doesn't sound like.
TheFuriousWombat:
OK, so here's a more (sort of) concrete top 6 list:
6. Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
With their newest album, Grizzly Bear continues to prove why they're one of the most engaging and innovative bands in the world of popular indie-rock. A lush, gorgeously arranged albums that manages to be catchy and addictive without being trite or ultimately boring like so many of its counterparts.
5. MONO – Hymn to the Immortal Wind
Well, it's MONO so you should all know what that means by now: massive, shamelessly epic post-rock, this time complete with a full orchestra. It's a rock and roll Beethoven album and it totally fucking rules.
4.Good Stuff House – Endless Bummer
Good Stuff House is Matt Christensen and Mike Weis from Zelienople teaming up with Scott Tuma and the results are just what you might expect from such a collaboration: a massively dense, cavernous, haze filled mass of ghostly feedback and distortion, distant voices swallowed in a void of faded, clattering percussion and almost tribal instrumentation (guitars and wailing saxophone and eastern sounding strings to name just a few). Something about this album feels very primal and ancient and it's all exceptionally beautiful.
3. Do Make Say Think – Other Truths
Not much to say about this. It's a true return to form from one of the best bands in the genre (not to mention one of the best live acts you'll find). A really well imagined album, it's engaging and just plain cool, brimming with all the good stuff you expect from a DMST album in spades.
2. Wildbirds and Peacedrums – The Snake
OK, where the hell did this come from? I had never heard of this duo until I saw them open for Fanfarlo at The Bell House in Brooklyn but man did they put on one of the most utterly enthralling and powerful live performances I've ever seen. Although this group is just a guy on drums and a girl who sings and occasionally bangs on a pan steel drum or a zither, they make a ton of noise and they do it brilliantly. Although this album lacks a bit of the raw emotional intensity of the live shows, it's still terrific and pretty much guaranteed to be unlike anything you've heard before.
1. Ilyas Ahmed – Goner
By far the best thing I heard this year. Totally haunting and gorgeous rock and roll, smeared in distortion and fuzz like it was recorded by ghosts in the Marianas Trench that constantly revealing new layers with each listen. Ahmed has been pretty accurately described as a male counterpart to Grouper (who even makes an unexpected but brilliantly executed appearance on the album's final track) but his music is heavier, more intense, more driving. That is, these songs are more distinctly song-like in their structure and arc. In any case, this album is way too good to ignore.
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