Posted By Quint on 17 Nov 2009 06:15 PM
Here are mine.... 1. Fever Ray – ‘Fever Ray’ 2. Moderat – ‘Moderat’ 3. Jonsi & Alex – ‘Riceboy Sleeps’ 4. Telefon Tel Aviv – ‘Immolate Yourself’ 5. Animal Collective – ‘Merriweather Post Pavilion’ 6. Fuck Buttons – ‘Tarot Sport’ 7. Bat For Lashes – ‘Two Suns’ 8. Japandroids – ‘Post-Nothing’ 9. Mountains – ‘Choral’ 10. Nosaj Thing – ‘Drift’

A few there I must check out before revealing my hand...

Quint did you catch Japandroids in Whelans recently? Any use?

Yes, I did indeed Jan. I love the album but I feared they wouldn't be able to reproduce the huge, layered sound of it live as a two-piece, and I turned out to be right. They have bucket-loads of energy and a child-like enthusiasm on stage but they need a BASS-PLAYER! It sounded like listening to the album through your laptop. Tonnes of bass on the album so why not do it live? Still a great band though.

That's what I was worried about too Quint. Such a shame. Perhaps they'll engage the services of a bassist next time out of the traps.

Here's the albums I've enjoyed most this year...

1) Soulsavers - Broken
2) Super Furry Animals - Dark Days/Light Years
3) White Denim - Fits
4) The Low Anthem - Oh My God, Charles Darwin
5) Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
6) Dark Was The Night - Various
7) Richard Swift – The Atlantic Ocean
8) Lily Allen - It's Not Me, It's You
9) Eels - El Hombre Lobo
10) Mos Def - Ecstatic

Been thinking about abut this for ages and still can't figure out what order I'd put stuff in. I think XX - the XX is just nudging ahead as my favorite album this year, but mainly because I've been listening to it again, so in no particular order:

The XX - XX
Sonic Youth - The Eternal
Moderat - Moderat
Little Boots - Hands (seems cruelly overlooked in the La Roux/Florence tussle, maybe she should invest in some red hair dye)
La Roux - La Roux
Metric - Fantasies
Yo La Tengo - Popular Songs
Fever Ray - Fever Ray
Pictureplane - Dark Rift
Lightning Dust - Infinite Light

..and a nagging feeling there's something else that should be on the list instead. 2009 has been a great year for music I reckon, my only problem is not being able to "process" the albums quick enough, not enough time to sit down an listen to a lot of albums properly, ask me in six months when I've had a chance to listen to some of the stuff released in the latter half of the year properly and it might be a fairly different list! Haven't had a chance to listen to Dark Room Notes new one or get my hands on the new Channel One/ch-1/whatever they call themselves these days album. Anyone that whinges about the state of modern music this year needs a slap, it's fragmented and not always easy to find, but there's great stuff out there right now.

Posted By Quint on 17 Nov 2009 06:15 PM
4. Telefon Tel Aviv – ‘Immolate Yourself’

Was actually a little disappointed by this one, good, but didn't "click" with it.