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Aw, man. So many to choose from! I'm much better at top fives than particular favourites. So in no particular order (they're all excellent):
Florence And The Machine - Lungs
Fanfarlo - Reservoir
Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career
Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
Passion Pit - Manners
Does it count if I found it in 2009? If so, I'd say In Between the Minds by Jack Savoretti. He just came out with a newer album this year, but I like this one a wee bit more. It's mellow. I'll have to go through my list to find a more up tempo one for 2009.
2009 isn't over yet, but I'd second Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest.
It's too difficult to pick just one! This week I would consider voting for Taken By Trees "East of Eden." Very pretty.
Cage the Elephant - Ain't No Rest for the Wicked - but with two recommendations I'm checking out Grizzly Bear.
I'm loving the Monsters of Folk album.
There have been some good ones... hard to pick one. But here is my current top 5:
But this seems to change daily...
Maybe not the best album of 2009, but I'm digging The xx.
Hmmm- I was going to say Rural Alberta Advantage, Hometowns but a quick google search told me it actually came out in 2008. So, I might have to second Phoenix...
The Raveonettes, "In and out of control"
my faves so far...
gomez - a new tide
phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix
definitely agree with grizzly bear as well...
I'd like to also add "Further Complications" by Jarvis Cocker into the mix. Love the Phoenix album too and can't wait to hear the new Raveonettes.
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros - Up from Below
Word. Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros debut album - Up From Below
Key tracks:
Home
40 Day Dream
Strange Cousins From the West, by Clutch
www.pro-rock.com
The Dead Weather ~ Horehound
I'm in love with all of you people who are hipper than I am and have kept up with new music, I will go out toot suite and buy all of this stuff. Thank you. And I'd like to vote for Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement.
Mayer Hawthorne - A Strange Arrangement
Uhhhh... Hello!!!
Kelly Clarkson - All I Ever Wanted
Definitely Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest.
Metric - Fantasies is probably my second-favorite so-far after the aforementioned Grizzly Bear record.
I second Metric
Metric - Fantasies.
I also bought Grizzly Bear on a recommendation but have not been able to get into it...I will try it again!
So far my favorites are:
Tragically Hip - We Are the Same
Niko Case - Middle Cyclone
and the Motown 50 Fanthology
La Roux - fun, 80's alternative
The Gossip "Music for Men" - like a gritty Dolly Parton
Passion Pit
Paolo Nutini "Sunny Side Up" - sounds like vintage music yet totally new
and for Pop:
Whitney Houston "I Look To You" - I don't know what it is about this album, but the more I listen to it the more happy I feel about life.
Miike Snow is my current fav.
Covers EP by Greg Laswell
And if that doesn't count because it's an EP, then:
Absolutes by Barcelona (reissue)
And everyone should give this a listen:
Qu by Sherwood
I can't resist a 'best of music' discussion. The funnest and/or poppiest and just plain awesomest albums of the year so far:
Junior Boys - Begone Dull Care
Tigercity - Ancient Lover
Alphabeat - The Spell
La Roux - S/T
Calvin Harris - Ready For The Weekend
Royksopp - Junior
Little Boots - Hands
Passion Pit - Manners
and
Friendly Fires - S/T (because they added a new track and rereleased it this year!)
Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
These guys just keep getting better with age. It's been over twenty years since their debut album and they're still making kick-ass, sludgy, guitar-driven rock music.
The one I've listened to the most, by far, is "These Four Walls" by We Were Promised Jetpacks. I can't get enough of "Quiet Little Voices".
What, no Britney??
*SNORT* HAH
The Decemberists: The Hazards of Love. A++
Cage the Elephant
BTW- I third, or fourth, or whatever- I like Metric
Neko Case - Middle Cyclone I've played it more than anything else this year and it's still fabulous.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero's - Up From Below is also pretty damn fine.
definitely neko case's middle cyclone and metric's fantasies. also face control by handsome furs and lost channels by great lake swimmers.
It hasn't come out yet: Tom Waits' Glitter and Doom Live, which comes out around November 24. But you can download a 7 song sampler from the 2 disc cd at www.tomwaits.com. It is recommended highly.
Tragically Hip: We Are The Same. it took me about 5 runs through to appreciate since it was so different than their previous works, but it's awesomeness cubed.
Metallica's Death Magnetic
Nifty Tortoise - Upswing
Tantrum Control - Melancholera
Prolific - Hindsights of Desires
Gasp - Lost in the Details
The Hazards of Love - The Decemberists
neko's new album
wilco's new album.
wilco loves you baby.
Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
This reminds me of that t-shirt that Dooce featured...saying "I listen to bands that are so hip they haven't even formed yet"...I haven't heard of any of these, except for Jarvis Cocker! Are they US bands? We don't get a lot of US music here in NZ. In saying that, my fave this year was a local - Ladyhawke.
Dead Man's Bones. Flew all the way to D.C to see them and haven't stopped listening to them since.
Royksopp: Junior.
easy.
Brandi Carlile's Give up the Ghost.
I agree with TuffDad...Paolo Nutini all the way. He's like 20 but he sounds like Wilson Pickett mixed with Otis Redding and a little bit of Joe Crocker thrown in for good measure.
Aside from that...I'm shamelessly listening to the Glee soundtrack right now. I am so.not.hip.
Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca
Great thread. I'm going to second Great Lake Swimmers but I'm mostly here to get some recommendations. Lots to listen to!
Miley Cyrus -- duh.