Best Of 2009

Top 10 Records of 2009

1. Mew – No More Stories Are Told Today, I’m Sorry, They Washed Away …
2. Sébastien Schuller – Evenfall
3. The Drums – The Drums EP
4. Bill Callahan – Sometimes I Wish I Were An Eagle
5. J. Tillman – Year In The Kingdom
6. Fever Ray – Fever Ray
7. Harlem Shakes – Technicolor Health
8. Wavves – Wavvves
9. The XX – XX
10. Animal Collective – Merriweather Post Pavillon

Top 10 Songs of 2009

1. “Let’s Go Surfing” – The Drums
2. “Obsessions” – Marina & The Diamonds
3. “Animal” – Miike Snow
4. “Night by Night” – Chromeo
5. “Two Weeks” – Grizzly Bear
6. “No Kind Words” – The Maccabees
7. “Sing Sang Sung” – AIR
8. “Feel It All Around” – Washed Out
9. “In For The Kill” – La Roux
10. “aNYway” – Duck Sauce

Top 5 Pop-Guilty-Pleasure Records

1. Marina & The Diamonds – Obsessions EP
2. Discovery – LP
3. Frankmusik – Complete Me
4. La Roux – La Roux
5. Gossip – Music For Men

Records That Didn’t Make The Cut (Honorable Mentions)

• Asobi Seksu – Hush
• Grizzly Bear – Veckatimest
• Ducktails – Landscapes
• The Maccabees – Wall Of Arms
• Girls – Album
• Horse Shoes – The Imperial School
• Wild Beasts – Two Dancers
• Here We Go Magic – Here We Go Magic
• Miike Snow – Miike Snow
• Mayer Hawthorne – A Strange Arrangement
• Islands – Vapours
• And So I Watch You From Afar – And So I Watch You From Afar
• Arms – Kids Aflame
• Bye Bye Bicycle – Compass
• Data – Skywriter