staff favorites from 2009
Abby
1. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
2. Girls: Album (True Panther Sounds)
3. Atlas Sound: Logos (Drag City)
4. Kurt Vile: God Is Saying This to You (Mexican Summer)
5. Bat for Lashes: Two Suns (Caroline)
6. Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson: Summer of Fear (Saddle Creek)
7. Fever Ray: s/t (Mute)
8. Alela Diane: To Be Still (Rough Trade)
9. Strange Boys: Strange Boys and Girls Club (In the Red)
10. Wavves: Wavvves (Fat Possum)
Christopher
1. Thee Oh Sees: Help (In the Red)
2. The Clientele: Bonfires on the Heath (Merge)
3. Ty Segall: Lemons (Goner)
4. The Intelligence: Fake Surfers (In the Red)
5. Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care (Domino)
6. Dinosaur Jr: Farm (Jagjaguwar)
7. Desire: II (Italians Do It Better)
8. Nisennenmondai: Destination Tokyo (Smalltown Supersound)
9. Tortoise: Beacons of Ancestorship (Thrill Jockey)
10. Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
Emily S. (graphic designer)
1. Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
2. Girls: Album (True Panther Sounds)
3. Woods: Songs of Shame (Shrimper/Woodsist)
4. Future of the Left: Travels with Myself and Another (XL)
5. Pains of Being Pure at Heart: s/t (Slumberland)
6. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp)
7. Jarvis Cocker: Further Complications (Rough Trade)
8. Sonic Youth: The Eternal (Matador)
9. Junior Boys: Begone Dull Care (Domino)
10. Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career (4AD)
Jacob (podcast engineer)
1. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: s/t (Slumberland)
2. Lily Allen: It’s Not Me, It’s You (Capitol)
3. Camera Obscura: My Maudlin Career (4AD)
4. El Perro Del Mar: Love Is Not Pop (The Control Group)
5. Blank Dogs: Under and Under (In the Red)
6. Zola Jesus: The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
7. Liechtenstein: Survival Strategies in a Modern World (Slumberland)
8. Burning Hearts: Aboa Sleeping
9. Thee Oh Sees: Help (In the Red)
10. Wavves: Wavvves (Fat Possum)
James
1. The Intelligence: Fake Surfers (In the Red)
2. Tyvek: s/t (Siltbreeze)
3. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information, vol. 3 (Strut)
4. Yacht: See Mystery Lights (DFA)
5. Dan Deacon: Bromst (Carpark)
6. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: s/t (Slumberland)
7. Woods: Songs of Shame (Shrimper/Woodsist)
8. Papercuts: You Can Have What You Want (Gnomonsong)
9. Morrissey: Years of Refusal (Lost Highway)
10. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
11. Thee Oh Sees: Help (In the Red)
12. Here We Go Magic: s/t (Western Vinyl)
Jeff
1. White Rainbow: New Clouds (Kranky)
2. Oneida: Rated O (Jagjaguwar)
3. Jim O’Rourke: The Visitor (Drag City)
4. Blues Control: Local Flavor (Siltbreeze)
5. Akira Sakata & Chikamorachi: Friendly Pants
6. v/a: Wayfaring Strangers (Numero Group)
7. Dinosaur Jr: Farm (Jagjaguwar)
8. Kurt Vile: Childish Prodigy (Matador)
9. Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights (Load)
10.MV & EE: Barn Nova (Ecstatic Peace)
Kiri (web contributor)
1. The Rural Alberta Advantage: Hometowns (Saddle Creek)
2. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp)
3. Pains of Being Pure at Heart : s/t (Slumberland)
4. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
5. The Dodos: Time to Die (Frenchkiss)
6. Japandroids: Post-Nothing (Polyvinyl)
7. Real Estate: s/t (Woodsist)
8. The Antlers: Hospice (Frenchkiss)
9. Handsome Furs: Face Control (Sub Pop)
10. Cold Cave: Love Comes Close (Matador)
Mike
1. Steve Gunn: Boerum Palace (Three Lobed Recordings)
2. Azita: How Will You? (Drag City)
3. TV Ghost: Cold Fish (In the Red)
4. Zola Jesus: The Spoils (Sacred Bones)
5. White Out: Senso (Ecstatic Peace)
6. Noveller: Red Rainbows (No Fun)
7. Chris Brokaw: Gracias, Ghost of the Future (Capitan)
8. Kiila: Tuota Tuota (Fonal)
9. Spectre Folk: Compass, Blanket, Lantern, Mojo (Arbitrary Signs)
10. Lights: Rites (Drag City)
11. Evangelista: Prince of Truth (Constellation)
12. D. Charles Speer & the Helix: Distillation (Three Lobed Recordings)
13. Polvo: In Prism (Merge)
14. The Intelligence: Fake Surfers (In the Red)
15. The Clean: Mister Pop (Merge/Arch Hill)
16. Agathe Max: This Silver String (Xeric)
Paul
1. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 (Strut)
2. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
3. The Flaming Lips: Embryonic (Warner Bros.)
4. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
5. Grizzly Bear: Veckatimest (Warp)
6. Monsters of Folk: s/t (Shangri-La)
7. Girls: Album (True Panther Sounds)
8. Yacht: See Mystery Lights (DFA)
9. Tyvek: s/t (Siltbreeze)
10. Times New Viking: Born Again Revisited (Matador)
Steve
1. Mulatu Astatke & the Heliocentrics: Inspiration Information, Vol. 3 (Strut)
2. Nisennenmondai: Destination Tokyo (Smalltown Supersound)
3. Arvo Pärt: In Principio (ECM New Series)
4. Mountains: Choral (Thrill Jockey)
5. James Blackshaw: The Glass Bead Game (Young God)
6. Vic Chesnutt: At the Cut (Constellation)
7. Jimi Tenor/Tony Allen: Inspiration Information 4 (Strut)
8. The XX: XX (XL)
9. Krzysztof Penderecki: Utrenja (Naxos)
10. Castanets: Texas Rose, the Thaw & the Beasts (Asthmatic Kitty)
11. Asobi Seksu: Hush (Polyvinyl)
12. Yoko Ono Plastic Ono Band: Between My Head and the Sky (Chimera)
13. Grooms: Rejoicer (Death by Audio)
14. A Place to Bury Strangers: Exploding Head (Mute)
15. Ancestor: Phase II: Machine (Seventh Media)
Tammy
1. Lightning Bolt: Earthly Delights (Load)
2. White Rainbow: New Clouds (Kranky)
3. Bibio: Ambivalence Avenue (Warp)
4. The Drums: Summertime (TwentySeven)
5. Bill Callahan: Sometimes I Wish I Were an Eagle (Drag City)
6. Bachelorette: My Electric Family (Drag City)
7. Bear in Heaven: Beast Set Forth Mouth (Headless Heroes)
8. Woods: Songs of Shame (Shrimper/Woodsist)
9. Liechtenstein: Survival Strategies in a Modern World (Slumberland)
10. Real Estate: s/t (Woodsist)
11. Broadcast & the Focus Group: Investigate Witch Cults of the Radio Age (Warp)
12. Grooms: Rejoicer (Death by Audio)
Toby (web contributor)
1. David Bazan: Curse Your Branches (Barsuk)
2. The Dutchess and The Duke: Sunset/Sunrise (Hardly Art)
3. Pink Mountaintops: Outside Love (Jagjaguwar)
4. Fuck Buttons: Tarot Sport (ATP)
5. Julianna Barwick: Florine (self-released)
6. v/a: Fire in My Bones: Raw Rare + Otherwordly African-American Gospel (1944-2007) (Tompkins Square)
7. Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion (Domino)
8. Screaming Females: Power Move (Don Giovanni)
9. Tune-Yards: Bird-Brain (Marriage / 4AD)
10. Thee Oh Sees: Help (In the Red)
